Final Cut Pro 5 online training at lynda.com

The software training site lynda.com just released over 8 hours of online movies teaching the essentials of video editing with Final Cut Pro 5. This series of movies, called Final Cut Pro 5 Essential Editing, shows you what you need to know to be a productive and efficient video editor. You can listen to a couple of the movies for free, including a 15 minute segment on trouble-shooting and another on new features in this version of Final Cut Pro. For $25 you can watch all the lynda.com movies you want for a month.

While you're at lynda.com, you may be interested in checking out other training movie titles, like Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Beyond the Basics, or iDVD. There are lots of other Apple-related titles, but some of them haven't yet been updated for the latest versions of software. Lynda.com plans two follow-up Final Cut Pro 5 titles–Essential Effects and Beyond the Basics, to be released soon.