A documentary on the digital revolution

January 25, 2012, 11:51 AM

http://filmbase.ie/news/index.php/2012/01/25/4642/

Well worth watching. A documentary on the digital revolution and the unlimited opportunities to be creative. The new Final Cut Pro X definitely fits into this category!!!

Eye Scream Factory launch

January 25, 2012, 11:50 AM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/news/710-eye-screa...

Eye Scream Factory have launched 74 DVE effects for Boris Red and that means they will work in our old friend Final Cut Pro 7. As we have said before, the introduction of FCPX didn't kill off the legacy versions of Final Cut Pro overnight.

Setting up your first feature Cutting Room

January 25, 2012, 11:48 AM

http://www.chrisjonesblog.com/2012/01/avid-or-fina...

One question that always comes up at the Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass is which editing tool should I use? There is no straight answer to this, and we get into the detail in the masterclass, but this video above gives a great and indepth view into both Avid and FCPX systems.

BOSCPUG Quick Report

January 25, 2012, 11:46 AM

http://notesonvideo.blogspot.com/2012/01/boscpug-q...

Here's a quick report on last night's Boston Creative Pro User Group meeting held at Emerson College's Bright Family Screening Room. Dan Berube began the evening by recounting the history of the Boston Final Cut Pro Users Group, which began about 11 years ago. But he said that since 2008, the focus has moved increasingly away from Final Cut Pro.

JamSync by Light Illusion

January 25, 2012, 11:44 AM

http://www.negativespaces.com/blog/2012/1/24/jamsy...

I had blogged awhile back detailing the challenges of creating a production's deliverables (editorial media, iPad dallies, etc) on the set. One of the most potentially time and labor intensive aspects of this process is syncing sound to the video files to create independent clips with embedded audio.

How to Get REDCINE-X and Premiere Pro Working

January 25, 2012, 11:38 AM

http://www.2-pop.com/article/115458

Here's a tutorial from Wide Open Camera's Chris Marino about how to do detailed color-grading using both the free REDCINE-X and Premiere Pro. Says NoFilmSchool.com, If you have Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, the changes you make to your shots in REDCINE update in Premiere Pro losslessly. Premiere Pro correctly interprets the metadata and you can then use, say, Colorista for secondary color correction on top of the native .R3D files.

Crossing The MMAxis

January 24, 2012, 03:56 PM

http://fixitinpostprod.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/cr...

When you cover a sport like hockey, basketball or football, there is a clear, defined direction of play, that being east-west, or for the viewer, left-right. However, what happens in a sport when there is no clearly-defined direction of play? With MMA becoming more and more mainstream everyday, and more events being televised, I felt...

Editing with Smoke on the Mac

January 24, 2012, 03:55 PM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/interviews/?article...

Autodesk's, Marc Hamaker, talks about editing on Smoke on the Mac. While the system is undeniably as finishing tool, Smoke also features a full-blown editor, enabling uncompressed 4:4:4 or 4:2:2 output, and a host of capabilities not found in a standard editing application.

Squirt of Dopamine

January 24, 2012, 09:01 AM

http://scruffythinking.com/thatpostshow/2012/1/23/...

On this Episode of That Post Show, we are proud to have Mike J. Nichols, Paul Zadie and the amazing Steve Cohen on the show. We discuss the skills, other than editing, required to be an Editor. We talk about software, hollywood and too many other topics to list.

Avid Media Composer 6 review online

January 24, 2012, 09:01 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/st...