LaCie 2big Thunderbolt Series (6TB)
March 12, 2012, 9:40 pm
The LaCie 2big Thunderbolt Series is an external desktop RAID system that uses two 3.5-inch, 7200-rpm drives pre-configured as RAID 0, but you can reconfigure as RAID 1 or JBOD using OS X's Disk Utility application.
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Sony Vegas Pro 11 Advanced Editing Software Review
March 12, 2012, 3:34 pm
Sony Vegas Pro 11 is a classic and comfortable vehicle for video editing. Version 11 adds some nice refinements with the same comfortable feel, but the real action is under the hood with a significant turbo-boost from GPU acceleration that makes this a welcome upgrade.
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Intro/Year in Review, HPA Tech Retreat 2012
March 12, 2012, 9:27 am
Intro/Year in Review HPA Tech Retreat 2012 PowerPoint: Schubin-HPA2012-Intro_Year_in_Review.ppt 29 slides (1440 x 1080) with audio, 9.9 MB, TRT: 18:35 YOU MUST BE IN SLIDESHOW MODE TO HEAR THE AUDIO
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AJA Solutions Enable Edit with Act of Valor
March 11, 2012, 12:52 pm
Grass Valley, CA (March 1, 2012)-Relativity Media and Bandito Brothers' Navy SEAL action-thriller Act of Valor, starring active-duty Navy SEALs, took the No. 1 spot in America in its debut weekend. The film was independently produced by Bandito Brothers, an outfit known for their inventive filmmaking process, enabled by leveraging tools and technology by companies like AJA Video Systems.We used KONA cards with Adobe Premiere Pro to online Act of Valor...
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Chris Tellefsen likes to keep it spontaneous
March 10, 2012, 4:50 pm
From rap music to survivalists, bullet-proof clothing to porn conventions, you name it and moviemaker Chris Tellefsen has probably edited it. Without the benefit of a film school education, Tellefsen has gone from art student to in-demand film editor with an eclectic resume that includes such diverse titles as Whit Stillman's Metropolitan, Larry Clark's Kids, Milos Forman's Man on the Moon, Robert Benton's The Human Stain, M. Night Shyamalan's The Village and Bennett Miller's Capote.
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Monica Castillo reports: Karen Schmeer Foundation
March 10, 2012, 10:36 am
South by Southwest is just picking up speed in rainy Austin, and Boston has already made the news. Just ahead of the film festival's award ceremony on March 13 came the announcement that the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship will be given to Lindsay Utz, editor of the controversial "Bully" documentary that is currently fighting with the MPAA over its recent rating ruling.
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Mission Complete!
March 9, 2012, 9:24 am
HOBOKEN, NJ - If you often feel like you've barely skimmed the surface of what you should have accomplished on a given work day, I have a secret for you. When you learn to "know when you're done" with projects, tasks, and everything the work day throws at you, you'll free up a lot more time to focus on those things that truly matter.
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Fix it in Post: The Top Six Unavoidable Disasters
March 8, 2012, 8:04 pm
You know why filmmakers and videographers always say "We'll fix it in post"? Because there are some problems that you can't avoid no matter how many years of experience you have behind the camera.
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Force of Nature
March 8, 2012, 10:45 am
Here's an article about Nick Hector, one of Canada's top editors who's work includes Force of Nature and Wiebo's War, rated one of Canada's top ten films of 2011. This article is a part of the Montage Magazine the DGC puts out.
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