Last week we released Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.10, a minor update to our suite of tools for keeping your editing system running smoothly.

Mountain Lion support

Pro Maintenance Tools now officially supports the upcoming OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion release later this month.

Faster QuickFix performance

We've made lots of improvements to QuickFix so that it will repair your problems even faster, letting you get back to work sooner.

Media Salvage interlacing support

You can now specify interlacing settings to be applied to the salvaged media file.

Plugin Manager installer improvements

We've had lots of interest in our plugin installer from developers so we've made several improvements to the customizability of the installer. You can now add a license agreement (EULA) that the user must accept before installing, and you can modify the look with a background image and custom icon.

This is a subset of the changes in this version; see the changelog for more.

Pro Maintenance Tools is an essential tool for video professionals that is used by studios, broadcasters and freelancers worldwide. To find out more watch the overview video, read the feature list, check out the user manual or download the 15-day trial.

We've just launched our newest application, Film Terms, for iOS and Mac.

Film Terms is a searchable glossary of over 400 filmmaking terms (and counting) and is a great way of keeping your knowledge up to date.

We're keen to hear what people think (and please request any terms you'd like to be included), so feedback is much appreciated.

We initially started out as a company developing solutions for Final Cut Studio users on the Mac. Final Cut Pro was a growing application that had made many inroads into professional film and TV production and was bringing lots of new users to the Mac for the first time.

Then Apple released Final Cut Pro X which threw a wrench into the engine of many post houses and developers like ourselves. The fallout of Apple's decision, one year on, is that the market has become heavily fragmented. There is no clear market leader - some have embraced FCPX, others Adobe, Avid, Autodesk or Lightworks, with many still keeping FCP 7 for now.

We were quick to add cross-NLE support to our applications but we were aware of an underlying thread within the post production industry that some were not keen to trust Apple with their livelihoods anymore.

We monitored this underlying unease for a while, unsure what was going to happen. We noticed it steadily growing until it reached fever-pitch two weeks ago when Apple released a non-update to their two-year-old Mac Pro and the web came alive with articles on switching to Windows or building a Hackintosh.

Not everyone will be switching to Windows - this is a logical continuation of the market fragmentation that already exists - but we want to support the NLEs and platforms that our customers use.

We've been dabbling with Windows development this year and already have a Windows 7 version of our popular organization app, Post Haste. We're now ready to announce that by the end of this year, most of the applications we create will have Windows equivalents.

We'll still support the Mac just as much as before, but now future products will be developed with cross-platform compatibility in mind, much as we develop for cross-NLE compatibility today.

On that note, we're going to start beta testing some of our Windows ports soon and are looking for Windows-based editors to help test them. We're looking for editors or production houses using Avid or Adobe Creative Suite on Windows 7 or 8. If you're interested in being a part of this, please contact us.

Yesterday we released Post Haste 2.1.2 for Mac and Windows with a much-requested new feature: variables.

You can now enclose a parameter name in square brackets (e.g. [client]) to have that variable replaced with the parameter value when a new project is created. This allows you much greater customization of the project template to meet the naming conventions of your facility.

The variable must match the name of the parameter fully, including spaces and punctuation, but capitalization doesn't matter. For more details on the variables feature and how Post Haste behaves in certain situations, please see the Post Haste user manual.

Post Haste is an essential tool for organizing your creative projects. Download it free for Mac and Windows today.

Earlier this week we released Pro Versioner 2.0.1, a minor update to our project backup tool.

Quick Look

Multiple simultaneous backups

Incremental caching

We've also fixed several bugs and the full list of changes is available here.

Pro Versioner is an invaluable app-agnostic backup tool for video professionals. To find out more, see the overview video, read the user manual or download the free 15-day trial.

We've just released Video Space Calculator 1.0.3 for iOS and 1.0.1 for Mac.

Video Space is an app for calculating the amount of disk space taken up by certain codecs, or alternatively calculating how much footage will fit in a certain space.

Both Mac and iOS versions now support RED Scarlet camera footage, IMX30, 40 and 50 and several additional frame rate options.

You can download the iPhone / iPad version here and the Mac version here.

Earlier this week we released Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.8, a minor update to our suite of tools for maintaining, optimizing and troubleshooting your editing system.

Avid Symphony support

Improved Premiere Pro support

We've also added support in Housekeeper for clearing Premiere title editor settings (this can fix issues where the title editor crashes when you try to launch it) and the ability to clear the Adobe Media Encoder queue (this can fix issues where the queue gets stuck).

Preference Manager can now backup Adobe Premiere Pro keyboard layouts, allowing you to easily transfer them from one system to another.

Other changes in this version include improved CS Repair processing speeds and updated Crash Analyzer definitions. You can see the full list of changes here.

Pro Maintenance Tools is an essential toolkit for editors and post production professionals. To find out more, see the feature list, watch the overview video or download the free 15-day trial.

Last week we released Pro Media Tools 1.1.4, a minor update to our suite of tools for improving your media workflows.

The most important change is that Pro Media Tools now requires OS X 10.6 or higher, but we are offering an older version for OS X 10.5 users.

We've made several changes to timecode in QT Edit. When importing timecode from a THM file (as created by a DSLR camera), QT Edit will no longer prompt you for the file's location if it exists in the same directory as the movie clip.

Timecode can now be applied to DSLR media in batch mode too, with QT Edit using the location of the first file in the batch or prompting you for a directory if no matching THM files are found at that location.

Timeline Tricks has had many under-the-hood changes, providing greater processing speed and reliability. We've also added the ability to remove muted clips with -inf volume levels.

There have been many other bug fixes and improvements in this version and the full list of changes is available here.

Pro Media Tools is an essential time-saving tool for video editors and post production professionals. To find out more, see our features page, watch the overview video, check out the user manual or download the free 15-day trial.

We've just released a small update to Preference Manager that adds support for Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and Adobe After Effects CS6.

We've also improved stability when closing applications and using Preference Manager to launch Final Cut Pro projects.

Please note that Preference Manager now requires OS X 10.6 or higher. An older version for OS X 10.5 is available here.

Preference Manager is a free and invaluable tool for video editors and post production professionals. To find out more, see the Preference Manager page, watch the overview video, read the user manual or download the software.

We're pleased to introduce our newest product, Pro Versioner for Mac, an extensive backup and versioning tool for your creative projects.

Pro Versioner is a 64-bit upgrade to FCP Versioner that offers a complete UI overhaul. The app automatically takes screenshots of your workspace and allows you to annotate backups to help differentiate between them.

It is now app-agnostic, meaning you can use it with Final Cut Pro 6 and 7, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro - or indeed any host application.

Pro Versioner keeps every version of a project for the current day and then whittles them down over time. This is much better than conventional autosave, where only the most recent 20 or so backups are kept. Backup management is completely customizable and it's much more intelligent than in the previous version. For example, if you choose to keep 3 versions for every day older a week, it will now keep the first backup of the day, the last backup of the day and one right in the middle, instead of just keeping the three latest versions.

It can also now sync your backups to the cloud. This is great for giving you an extra layer of protection in case your backup hard drive fails or you fall victim to fire or theft. We're currently offering Dropbox support and we'd appreciate feedback on which additional services our users wish to sync to.

I've been field-testing it on a large project for the past four months and it's been a lifesaver. It's a Final Cut Pro 7 project and we've had lots of issues with multicam angles switching seemingly at random. Pro Versioner was invaluable because it meant we could easily go back in time and compare versions to see which angles were correct and then remove the multiclips. It's also comforting to know that our project backups are on Dropbox if anything should happen to the facility or our hard drives.

Pro Versioner is an invaluable tool to manage your project versions and prevent disasters. To find out more, see the Pro Versioner site, read the user manual or download the free trial.