Editor Wyatt Smith Goes Into the Woods to Cut Soun

January 7, 2015, 05:10 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2015/01/editor-wyatt-sm...

Into the Woods, Disney's new film based on the beloved Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical, is a lush, orchestrated rumination on modern life seen through a fractured fairy-tale canon. Directed by Rob Marshall and shot on the ARRI Alexa by Dion Beebe, ACS, … more » The post Editor Wyatt Smith Goes Into the Woods to Cut Sound, Picture and Song appeared first on Studio Daily.

Are Computer Graphics Always the Answer?

January 7, 2015, 12:35 PM

http://www.siggraph.org/discover/news/visual-effec...

By Kristy Barkan Up until the mid ‘90s, effects artists were people who made things with their hands. They wore paint-spattered clothing and rifled through tool boxes. They created aliens out of latex, turned foam into granite and constructed nine-foot spaceships from odds and ends found on dusty workshop shelves. The Millennium Falcon was a product of such physical craftsmanship, as was the creepy-yet-loveable E.T., the immaculate Discovery spacecraft in "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Major Toht...

Networks and Studios (sometimes editors) ;)

January 7, 2015, 12:34 PM

http://renderplease.com/post/107418916205

G-Tech Announces New Rugged Series

January 7, 2015, 12:34 PM

http://www.cinema5d.com/g-technology-announce-rugg...

We’ll start with the G-Drive ev RaW. The hard drive takes an existing G-Tech ev design, increases shock resistance and reduces weight by 35%. The hard drive on its own can withstand a drop up to 1.2M, add the rugged bumper and that increases to 1.5M.

Invisibility of Birdman's editing

January 7, 2015, 10:25 AM

http://www.thecredits.org/2015/01/invisibly-invalu...

Yesterday we posted Part I of our interview with Birdman editors Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise. As you by now know, Birdman was shot in a such an ingenious way that it made you feel like you were watching a single, 119-minute continuous shot. Watch it and try to find a single cut, a single break in the action or a clear transition that would alert you to the work of an editor. But there were editors, of course, two of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s long time collaborators, so what we wanted to...

G-Technology's New Hard Drives Can Take a Beating

January 7, 2015, 10:24 AM

https://www.videoguys.com/Blog/E/G+Technologys+New...

At CES today, G-Technology added a pair of hard drives to its G-Drive ev lineup. The G-Drive ev RaW with Rugged Bumper and G-Drive ev ATC are made for the photographers and videographers who travel to distant lands, particularly those who are rough on their equipment.

What’s your creative fortune for 2015?

January 7, 2015, 10:24 AM

http://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/whats-your-cr...

Under the pretense of a brand new year, many of us set lofty goals, make resolutions and, well, hope for the best. This year, we’re taking the easy route to figuring out what lies ahead. And you can too. In good humor, with the help of clever design, and a dash of pure luck, we’re throwing reason out the window and claiming we can help predict your creative future with this neat printable fortune teller. So, please, ignore your better judgment, print this PDF and see what 2015 has in...

Birdman | Steven Benedict

January 7, 2015, 10:23 AM

http://www.stevenbenedict.ie/2015/01/birdman/

Alejandro Iñárritu's brilliant new film pretends to be about an actor trying to escape his comic-book alter ego. But really it's about our need to escape our own egos.

Death by a thousand cuts

January 7, 2015, 06:42 AM

http://furbo.org/2015/01/06/death-by-a-thousand-cu...

I’m writing today about the latest kerfuffle on the state of Apple’s business.

Consolidation and hard links to media in Final Cut

January 7, 2015, 06:41 AM

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/tutorials/1577-con...

The first Tuesday of the year and the guys at Ripple have published their first MacBreak Studio of 2015. How can media be in more than one place without doubling the disk space used?