Catfish Editor Zachary Stuart-Pontier

September 15, 2010, 04:10 PM

http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/editing/btl-chats-me...

Catfish is one of the fall season’s "hot docs," erupting out of Sundance, earlier in the year, with its quite-now tale of trying to assemble a persona in an age where everybody has numerous public ones – nervously tended to on multiple devices (like, say, the iPhone on which you’re reading this) – but few private, or "interior" ones. Or "one." Assembling this story fell to editor Zachary Stuart-Pontier, and Below the Line caught up with him – virtually of course – as the film begins....

New Apple Final Cut Pro Plug-in for Post-Prod

September 15, 2010, 12:50 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/12561.html

Los Gatos, California - September 15, 2010 - PowerProduction Software, a leading developer of visualization software for film and video production, today announced the release of Martini QuickShot Creator (Martini), the first plug-in for post-production visualization. Designed to work within Apple’s Final Cut Pro, Martini makes it easy for editors to direct additional shots and sequences. With Martini’s dynamic power, editors no longer need to use black slugs with text explaining what "shot....

September 15, 2010, 10:07 AM

http://www.monteursassocies.com/category/publicati...

Improve FCP’s Media Management II

September 15, 2010, 09:33 AM

http://uniquedesigners.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/im...

well this seems like a nice solution if you are working in a offline/online situation on big projects in FCP due the media management an storage situation can be a bit messy from time to time...

The Final Cut Tipping Point

September 14, 2010, 10:04 PM

http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/2010/the-final-cut-t...

Ten years ago there were few options for professional non-linear editing. Avid had the lion’s share with their Media Composer and Film Composer products, and for the slightly lower budget there was Avid MCXpress (distinct from Xpress DV), then the rest of the market was split across products from Media 100, Sony and a few others. All were expensive, complicated and difficult to get.

Sorenson Releases Squeeze 6.5 with Video Decoding

September 14, 2010, 11:14 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/12553.html

SAN DIEGO (September 14, 2010) - Sorenson Media today announced the immediate availability of Sorenson Squeeze 6.5, which adds greater encoding, publishing, pre-processing and filtering functionality to the industry-leading online video encoding product. The Squeeze 6.5 update is free to current Sorenson Squeeze 6 users.

ASE Color Grading Workshop Pt. 1 of 9

September 14, 2010, 09:54 AM

http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/assocvideo.php

Australian Screen Editors presents "Making The Grade", a seminar on colour grading in FCP by Peter Cave. This is part 1 of 9. Topics covered in this part include: Eye & Vision Tests, Munsell Hue Test, 3-Way Color Corrector, Setting White Level. Peter Cave is a colourist with 20 years freelance experience. Special thanks to Swinburne University School of Film &TV for hosting and filming the event on 13 July 2009.

RED updates REDCINE-X with 2 big features

September 14, 2010, 09:27 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=4222

When RED introduced REDCINE-X it took the moderately useful and occasionally maddening REDCINE and turned it into an actual usable application. The best thing about this essential RED workflow tool is that it’s in a constant state of being upgraded with bug fixes and new features ... and it is free! This past weekend RED posted yet another new version of their Useful Tool with two big features: 3D stereo support and R3D trimming.

Want to get the hand tool back in CS5?

September 13, 2010, 07:36 PM

http://blog.youdownwithfcp.com/2010/09/13/want-to-...

We recently upgraded to cs5, and for everything good that it does, it also has a few weird quirks. The most notable is that using the space bar to temporarily select the move tool (the one that looks like a hand) does not work. This is a known issue, but it still sucks. The only workaround is equally quirky: shut down your web browsers. I can’t say why it happens, but hopefully that one trick will keep you from throwing your machine against a wall. I was really close!

Best Film Editing — Volume I

September 13, 2010, 12:04 PM

http://incontention.com/?p=27008

I still remember when I was 12 and getting into the Oscars for the first time. My Dad said, "How can you tell if the film has good editing?" To a very large extent, I had to concede his point, as the best editing is often that which we don’t explicitly notice. Rather, it simply "becomes" the film as we become immersed in what is on the screen, not remembering that everything was staged from different angles on different days.