Make Your Metadata Matter

May 22, 2015, 03:45 AM

http://aframe.com/blog/2015/05/make-your-metadata-...

Tapeless video means you have the luxury of storing lots of footage in the cloud. But once it’s ‘up there’, how do you find it? How do you make best use of it? Enterprise level video collaboration platforms afford professional content creators the opportunity to add metadata. The benefit of that in your production workflow... Read More

Free FCPX plugin & template roundup on #freeeffect

May 22, 2015, 03:45 AM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/1670-free...

If there is one request we hear over and over again at FCP.co towers, it's "Please bring back Free Effect Friday." So we thought why not! A bunch of free Final Cut Pro X plugins for you to download.

EDIUS 8 ‘first NLE to support Canon XF-AVC codec

May 22, 2015, 03:44 AM

http://www.newsshooter.com/2015/05/22/edius-8-firs...

Grass Valley have announced an update to their EDIUS editing software package that will add support for Canon’s new XF-AVC codec. Announced alongside the C300 Mk II and XC10 cameras, it’s a proprietary codec optimised for the larger filesizes and higher bitrates of 4K production.

Great Ideas Are Not Enough

May 21, 2015, 04:17 PM

http://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/great-ideas-a...

If ideas aren’t brought to life, they never become…. more. It’s why, every year, Behance organizes the 99U Conference—to shift the focus from idea generation to idea execution. The premise of the conference is simple. By bringing together some of the world’s most productive visionaries, researchers, and creative thinkers, who excel at executing on their ideas, 99U offers road-tested insights on making ideas happen. These last few years some profound insights have emanated from ...

The Atlanta Cutters Present: “Editorial Workflow

May 21, 2015, 04:17 PM

http://www.provideocoalition.com/the-atlanta-cutte...

5 Great Places to Learn the Basics of AE

May 21, 2015, 11:56 AM

https://www.rocketstock.com/blog/5-great-places-to...

There are a lot of really bad After Effects tutorials out there. If you do a simple search on YouTube, odds are you’ll mostly find poorly produced videos covering old versions of After Effects. So, if you’re tired of looking for a good place to learn the basics of After Effects, check out these 5 helpful resources.

Frank Norris and the Invention of Film Editing

May 21, 2015, 09:34 AM

http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/05/20/the-empat...

At the heart of American author Frank Norris’ gritty turn-of-the-century fiction lies an essential engagement with the everyday shock and violence of modernity. Henry Giardina explores how this focus, combined with his unique approach to storytelling, helped to pave the way for a truly filmic style.

Television in Transition - The 1950’s Version

May 21, 2015, 09:32 AM

http://www.provideocoalition.com/television-in-tra...

“An Evening with Fred Astaire” shines to this day as an example of excellence in early television.  The program was produced in the midst of the turbulence over television's transition from kinescopes to videotape, monochrome to color, and live to recorded.  But NBC, the network that aired it, was working through dilemmas largely of its own making.

RedShark Review: Red Giant's Trapcode Suite, Effe

May 21, 2015, 04:48 AM

http://www.redsharknews.com/post/item/2590-redshar...

Phil Rhodes gives us his take on Red Giant's TrapCode Suite, Effects Suite and Universe software tools, and why it makes sense to have all three. Red GiantTrapcode SuiteEffects SuiteUniverseKnoll Light FactoryAfter EffectsMotion graphicsVisual EffectsReview

Create Lower-Third Graphics with Adobe Comp

May 21, 2015, 04:47 AM

http://blogs.adobe.com/edtechatadobe/2015/05/creat...

One of the toughest and most annoying parts of creating a video project is building a good looking lower-third graphic. When many people add names and titles in post, they often just use a standard font with nothing that looks like an actual lower-third graphic by a professional. This makes the video look amateur. I recently was working on a project where I shot some video on my iPad and used Premiere Clip to start the editing process before finishing in Premiere Pro CC. I was on a plane wi...