From Creative Cow-

It’s late, you’re running late, and you can’t figure out why your sequence isn’t playing in real time. Fortunately, Creative Cow leader and Final Cut Pro expert Walter Biscardi is here to help. You know that something’s wrong, Walter knows what, and he tells you how to fix it here.

Watch the video tutorial here.

You know the feeling- you assemble a complex graphic in Final Cut, and it looks crisp and beautiful. You press play, and it looks like crap. Andrew Balis from the Moviola Resource Center has posted some tips over at KenStone.com to help you control what you see. With dropped frames, Unlimited vs. Safe RT, and Sequence settings to worry about, Balis offers a rather comprehensive guide that will help you improve your knowledge of the program.

Read the tutorial here.

From John Fitzgerald at Shootyourself.net:

“Trashing Prefs” is an absolute must when you are using FCP. From time to time, FCP will start behaving in odd ways – error messages, system crashes, failure to recognize firewire devices, etc. You name it, it has probably happened to someone at some point. Chances are, “trashing prefs” was the solution to a majority of the problems.

Read the complete tutorial here.