Alex Udell is a full time video editor and motion graphics designer for an advertising agency in south Florida where he uses Final Cut Studio and Adobe tools on a daily basis to create broadcast content. Over his 18 year career in the video industry he has made the transition from linear to nonlinear editor and worked as a trainer and consultant deploying workgroups based around various solutions including those from Apple and Adobe. Alex has also worked nationally for Autodesk as an application engineer for desktop editing, compositing, and media encoding software. While at Autodesk, Alex evangelized their tools and contributed significantly into the shaping of their software product releases and training materials. Alex can be found participating in various forums on the Creative Cow and is a leader on the Adobe Premiere Pro and Autodesk Combustion forums.