Flexible way of date and time stamping DV Footage

August 21, 2010, 09:51 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/reviews/?reviewid=3...

Sohotank ST8 Review

August 20, 2010, 12:12 PM

http://lfhd.net/2010/08/19/sohotank-st8-a-review/

OK, here’s the deal. You want a RAID...a PROTECTED Raid, and you are a do-it-yourself kinda editor...really hands on. There are lot of choices out there for all-in-one solutions, but you, like me, might like to do things yourself. Or, you want to start small and add as you go...but not get too crazy with the cost. I think I found a pretty good solution to that. The SOHOTANK ST8 by RAIDON.

Burn-in timecode will make your client happy

August 20, 2010, 12:04 PM

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

If you’ve ever had to send out a copy of an edit for client review (and really, what editor doesn’t do this on a very regular basis) then you may have very well been asked to provide a BITC. BITC stands for burn-in timecode and is as old as editing itself. Dylan Reeve noted right after this post went up that in some countries it’s called TCIP for Timecode in Picture.

RED Post – the Easy Way III

August 19, 2010, 11:50 AM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/red-p...

If you’ve read some of my past articles about RED, you know I’m not a huge fan of "native" editing using the camera raw files as source clips. I find that an offline/online workflow is still best for smoothly editing RED projects, yet it still retains access to the raw color data during the finishing process. Previously I discussed an easy workflow for Apple Final Cut Pro and Color users, but this isn’t the only solution.

The Future of Picture Editing

August 18, 2010, 05:27 PM

http://zaksthoughtsonfilm.blogspot.com/2010/08/loo...

Film editing has undergone a few major paradigm shifts since it’s inception with glue and splicers (and in-camera editing before that), but the greatest of them came in the late 80s with the mainstream acceptance of non-linear editing. This transition provided editors with a plethora of new tools that made their work more efficient and their means of accomplishing it more capable. But the most revolutionary thing...

When Avid Met FilmLight

August 18, 2010, 09:52 AM

https://www.editorsguild.com/FromTheGuild.cfm?From...

Nonlinear editing manufacturer Avid and color scanner/grader manufacturer FilmLight jointly unveiled a new collaborative workflow recently that enables editors and colorists to work in an iterative, nonlinear fashion. At venues in Burbank and Santa Monica, hundreds of post-production professionals attended the demonstrations, which featured FilmLight’s Baselight color grading system and Avid’s newly-introduced Media Composer 5.0 editing system, as well as its DS compositing and finishing...

Another useful Boris tool: Continuum 3-Way Color

August 18, 2010, 09:51 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=3916

I was surprised to see an email comes across the tubes today with a press release announcing a new $99 3-Way color grading plug-in from Boris FX. The Boris Continuum 3-Way Color Grade Unit is now available for editors as another option for color correction within a number of host applications including Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Final Cut Express, Apple Motion, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Premiere Pro.

MPEG-2 Encoders, Part 2

August 17, 2010, 11:58 AM

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/videoencodvd/rev...

In the first half of this month's article, I looked at the usability and performance of five MPEG-2 encoding tools: Apple Compressor, Cinema Craft Encoder MP, Innobits BitVice, Sorenson Media Squeeze, and Telestream Episode Encoder. In this issue I'll discuss comparative quality and detail what happened when I tried to import the files into DVD Studio Pro.

Jerry interviews Eric Quanstrom of Sorenson

August 17, 2010, 09:46 AM

http://library.creativecow.net/hofmann_jerry/soren...

Sorenson Media has always been a favorite company of mine, and my feelings for them haven't changed through the years. So I asked for an interview with Eric Quanstrom, Sorenson Media's marketing chief.

AVID'S NEW ISIS

August 16, 2010, 03:15 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=639...

As this issue was going to press, Avid announced that it is expanding its ISIS shared storage product family with the introduction of the ISIS 5000. The company introduced the flagship Unity ISIS back in November of 2005, and James Frantzreb, Avid’s senior marketing segment manager for broadcast and storage, says the ISIS file system has since "been proven in the most demanding and high-profile media production environments in the world."