Another great site for shortcuts, tricks, and tips in FCP: http://fcpkeystrokes.tumblr.com/
A life saver. i used it today to convert a flash file I downloaded from YouTube to AIFF in QuickTime Pro.
Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional media.
http://www.assistedediting.com/
This site has support apps that can help automat simple tasks, like syncing audio. There is always a price, though. If you use a 3rd party app to sync your sound and merge it with your video take, you will lose the timecode in that sound file and it will be replaced with your videos timecode. This can be a serious issue if you need to go back to find a specific ISOs later. BUT, if that’s not an issue, these little apps can be huge time and effort savers.
Quickly browse, play, select and annotate clips.
Judge image detail and sharpness at 100% magnification, even on a laptop in the field.
Make a subselection from a large set of clips, add comments and save references to the selected clips in a small file. Reopen the file later to view and process the selected clips.
Quickly open clips in REDAlert for changing look settings, performing one-light colour correction, etc.
Render clips to QuickTime, DPX or TIFF files using customisable render presets.
Trigger an Automator workflow with selected clips.
Quickly import clips into Final Cut by dragging selected clips from Clipfinder into Final Cut.
Replace reference files or low resolution proxies in Final Cut projects with high resolution, one-light-corrected and fully rendered clips (via XML export / import).
Prepare a list of all clips in a Final Cut project.
Create an annotated list of clips for printouts.
Copy a selection of .RDC directories.
