Today we released Video Space Calculator 1.0.5 for iOS and 1.0.3 for Mac.

These updates add 3K ARRIRAW support, along with Avid DNxHD 80, 100 and 444 codecs.

Video Space Calculator can calculate the disk space taken up by over 75 codecs including ProRes, Animation, ARRIRAW, DNxHD, XDCAM and DPX.

The app is available on the iOS App Store and the Mac App Store.

Preference Manager is a useful tool for trashing preferences for a range of video editing applications including Avid, Premiere and all versions of Final Cut Pro. This wipes the user settings for your editing application and can fix a wide range of problems.

However, having to set everything up again can be a chore. With a little bit of preparation in advance, you can ensure you never have to trash them again.

1. Start with a stable foundation. We recommend trashing preferences in Preference Manager and then setting them up again from scratch in your NLE, but you can skip this step if you are confident that your settings are stable.

2. Backup the settings. You can choose to backup additional items such as keyboard layouts if you desire.

3. Optionally, lock your preference files to prevent them from becoming corrupt. Some apps don't work correctly with locked preference files, so for these apps the lock option will be greyed out.

4. When a problem occurs, instead of trashing preferences, restore the backup. This will restore the settings you backed up previously to enable you to get back to work quickly.

Additional tips:

• You can right-click on a backup in the Restore pane and set it as the default backup. This means that it will be automatically restored when running a Quick Fix and you can set it up to fix problems simply by pressing a button on your keyboard.
• If you make changes to your editing software preferences later on, right-click on the backup in the Restore pane and select Update All Files to replace the preferences in the backup with the current versions on disk.
• By default Preference Manager will autosave your preferences every 7 days. This allows you to go back to previously working settings if you did not make a backup beforehand

Preference Manager is a free and useful tool for editors and post production professionals. See the user manual for more workflow tips.

Last week we released Pro Media Tools 1.1.6, a minor update to our suite of media management workflow tools.

Mountain Lion support

Compressor and DVD Studio Pro-compatible chapters

QT Edit can import markers from an FCPX XML file so this is a great solution for users wanting to easily get Final Cut Pro X markers into their compressed export or DVD. It can also import markers from Final Cut Pro 7 and Avid.

QT Edit frame export

New QT Edit Quick Tasks

The full list of changes in this version is here.

Pro Media Tools is an essential toolkit for editors, assistants and other post production professionals. To find out more, watch the overview video, read the user manual or download the free trial.

We recently released Pro Versioner 2.0.3, a minor update to our project backup and versioning tool.

Mountain Lion support

Pro Versioner now officially supports the recently released OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Mass removal options

If you are running low on disk space and need to clear out some backups, the new Remove Backups options in the Edit menu can help.

You can choose to remove all backups, all except the x most recent, or all older than x days.

The full list of changes is here.

Pro Versioner is an essential tool for safety and peace of mind when editing your project. To find out more, watch the overview video, read the user manual or download the free 15-day trial.

We recently released Video Space Calculator 1.0.4 for iOS and 1.0.2 for Mac.

In addition to the 75+ codecs already supported, we've added support for AVCHD FX, DVCPRO HD 50 and 60 fps, Canon XF 25, 35 and 50Mbps and 3K and 5K support for EPIC.

Video Space Calculator is a useful tool for calculating the disk space taken up by a wide range of codecs. It is available on the app stores for iOS and Mac.

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.