Reports around the web at the moment have rumoured that Apple is planning to release an update to their Final Cut Studio professional video editing package in late April, around the time of the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas.

Lets keep our fingers crossed then…

Final Cut Pro is a favourite amongst independent and low budget film-makers, as it takes advantage of non linear editing and capturing of Digital video and is relatively cheap. But it might interest all of us independent film-makers to know that the same exact tools we are using to edit our short films and documentaries were used to edit the following well known films…

* The Rules of Attraction (2002)
* Full Frontal (2002)
* The Ring (2002)
* Cold Mountain (2003) (Academy Award nominee for Best Editing – Walter Murch)
* Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
* Open Water (film) (2003)
* Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
* The Ladykillers (2004)
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
* Super Size Me (2004)
* Corpse Bride (2005)
* Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)
* Happy Endings (2005)
* Ellie Parker (2005)
* Jarhead (2005)
* Little Manhattan (2005)
* Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
* The Ring Two (2005)
* Black Snake Moan (2006)
* Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
* Happy Feet (2006)
* Zodiac (2007)
* The Simpsons Movie (2007)
* No Country for Old Men (2007) (Academy Award nominee for Best Editing – Roderick Jaynes) (Academy Award winner – Best Picture)
* Reign Over Me (2007)
* Youth Without Youth (2007)
* Balls of Fury (2007)
* “The Tracey Fragments” (2008)
* Burn After Reading (2008)
* The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
* Karf in HD [6] (2008)
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
* Where the Wild Things Are (2009)