Assisted Editing has a new tag line...

December 16, 2010, 03:52 PM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/12/assisted-edi...

We originally settles on "Smart Tools for Smart Editors and Producers" but in reality our goal is to take all the boring work out of post production, whether it’s syncing audio and video sources together, copying log notes from one bin to another or doing a series of first cuts to explore your content we want to take the boring, tedious, slow parts out so editors are free to focus on the truly creative work of making an edit emotionally compelling and visually stimulating.

Using X264 Plugin in Compressor

December 16, 2010, 09:50 AM

http://realworldvideocompression.com/rwvc/2010/5/7...

admit it, I've had a love hate relationship with Compressor pretty much since Day One. I love the convenience of having an app tied directly to the timeline for encoding, but have always felt a little disappointed by the options and quality of what was offered for encoding that it offered. Still, I've stuck with it for certain encoding events (such as for dvd content, rough cuts, and archives at high bit rates). It's not that I believe its a bad application, just one that has languished...

Ten Editing "Must Own’s" of 2010

December 15, 2010, 04:30 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/editingpost...

2010 has been another years of wonders and blunders, but there are some products out there that if you own an editing/motion graphics/compositing system, you simply NEED to have these products to not only create great looking work, but to make your life easier. I thought I’d break this down into a year end countdown, and remember, these products are not in any particular order, as comparing them is like comparing apples and elephants, so let’s get started!

The Best File Format Analogy Yet

December 15, 2010, 04:26 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=5021

The "completely random Final Cut Studio stuff" blog I’m Not Bruce yesterday posted a little entry called Clients don’t understand Container Formats. It’s one of the most identifiable client-related posts I’ve read, anywhere, in some time. It also contains the best analogy I’ve come across to help explain to a client exactly why you have to know a bit more about that file deliverable they need ... i.e., you need a bit more information than a .mov file.

Episode 16: The one about piracy

December 14, 2010, 03:48 PM

http://www.theterenceandphilipshow.com/2010/12/epi...

With the US Government Accounting Office dismissing RIAA and MPAA "research" as being lacking in any factual basis, is unauthorized distribution hurting or helping the industry? Thanks as always to Zach Spell for editing making us sound smart!

Avid Training Lesson (In France)

December 14, 2010, 02:21 PM

http://www.repaire.net/news_tests_tutos/news/les_f...

Satisfied at last in October, Avid has offered its visitors training workshops around the time of its flagship products: MediaComposer 5 and ProTools. We are very pleased to be able to make available Repairenautes exclusive! Here are the first wave of the workshop MC5 (same initials as a great rock band of the sixties;-))

proDAD ships Mercalli V2 Pro Mac plug-in

December 14, 2010, 09:39 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/news/story/...

Matrox Adds Exciting New Workflow Features to...

December 14, 2010, 09:36 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/news/story/...

Christmas gift ideas for the editor

December 13, 2010, 11:19 AM

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

It’s very close to the Christmas holiday but my guess is there’s still a lot of shopping to be done. Editors need gifts too so I thought I’d put together this somewhat editor / edit suite specific list of a few items that might make an editor happy if they unwrapped them from under the tree. With that caveat you won’t see any software or downloadable products, which makes this list a bit difficult since so much of what we do is on the computer.

Eyeheight: Loudness and technical compliance

December 13, 2010, 11:17 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/features/?articleid...

Presented by Simon Pegg, Research and Development Director, Eyeheight, Ltd. KARMAudioAU for Final Cut is an OS X native Audio Unit plug-in compatible with Final Cut, Soundtrack Pro and any application which supports Audio Units. KARMAudioAU analyzes stereo and multi-channel audio content using ITU-R BS.1770 (optionally including the EBU R128 relative gate) and then applies a global gain value to bring the audio to the the target loudness. By applying a global the target loudness is matched...