Plug-In
Oliver Peters has a great blog post about MyMusic Score , a newly released plug-in that imports music you pick from the MyMusic Score site directly into your FCP project. For $.99 you can buy a preview license that will allow you to download a full-length, full quality track and temporarily use it. If you and your producer and client like the song then you can buy an upgrade to the license that corresponds to what kind of project you are doing. One song I listened to cost $35 for non-broadcast, corporate use. This seems reasonable and I hope music websites like these continue to do well and expand their libraries. It will really help people that can not afford the yearly license fees of places like FirstCom and Killer Tracks that can cost over $3000.
iPhone App
Continuing with the music theme, PatternMusic is supposedly an app that is a full-featured music building program. I haven't used it yet but it already seems more intuitive than my current favorite music creation software BeatMaker. Other music apps that may be worth checking out include the powerful SunVox and the lo-fi Plinkton.
Website
While I was at Macworld I talked with the folks over at Crash Plan who offer unlimited backup for your computer for $3.50 a month. You supposedly can even backup external hard drives that are attached to your computer as well. If this is true then this is an incredible deal. Carbonite, a similar competitor, only lets you backup your internal hard drives. If anybody tries out Crash Plan let me know how well it works - i"m curious.
Gear
By now you've probably heard about Canon's new Rebel T2i/EOS 550D which will supposedly deliver the 5D and 7D experience at a fraction of the cost.
Tutorial
There is a great 3-part series on Adobe TV about how to make lower thirds in Photoshop. I can't wait to go through them and hope they include a workflow for animating PhotoShop lower thirds in After Effects
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