Ripple Tool (Roll Tool in Avid)

November 10, 2010, 04:56 PM

http://blogs.nppa.org/editfoundry/2010/11/10/rippl...

I’ve been editing on non-linear systems for 12 years. I know both Avid and Final Cut. Each time I learned the process of editing on these platforms I somehow skipped trimming. It wasn’t until I re-learned each NLE that I started to grasp trimming. Once you get clips marked and into the timeline you should never go back to the original clip. All adjustment should be made in the timeline.

My email to Steve Jobs and his reply

November 10, 2010, 12:01 PM

http://www.dustyngobler.com/2010/10/03/email-to-st...

Fed up with Apple’s blackbox policy about the Pro Applications I emailed Steve Jobs:

Don’t Count Lightworks Out Yet

November 10, 2010, 10:26 AM

http://splicehere.org/2010/11/09/dont-count-lightw...

Lightworks, once the darling of longform post production, may soon find a second life. EditShare plans to release the first beta from their ongoing open source project on November 29. If you’ve registered, you’ll be able to download it for free. At the moment, it’s Windows-only, but they plan a Mac port next year. The list of features is impressive, at least on paper: resolution independence up to 2K, multiple frame-rate support, native support for DNX, Prores, R3D and dpx...

Lightworks Release Announced

November 10, 2010, 10:25 AM

http://www.handcutfilms.com/editing/lightworks-rel...

EditShare has announced the release date for the new Lightworks Open Source editing project. I for one am very excited, and not just because it's free. For one thing, Lightworks has been used for some of the greatest films of all time, and is the NLE system of choice for many editors such as academy award-winning Thelma Schoonmaker. But for another, more important reason, I see it pushing Avid and Apple to make their applications even better.

Final Cut Pro - Fancy Light Table Tricks

November 10, 2010, 10:24 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip247.html

While we’re looking at our clips in Light Table mode in the Browser, there’s another interesting trick I can show you: how to edit a group of clips directly from the Browser into the Timeline.

Review - Boris Continuum Complete 7 for AE

November 10, 2010, 10:23 AM

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

Everyone, whether you are a professional in the field of editing/vfx or just starting out, has heard of Boris FX. In a way, their plug-ins have defined effects work for editors for years. Anyone who purchases Media Composer gets a copy of BCC (always the previous years version), and anyone working in Final Cut Pro know’s the very familiar Boris 3D Title (an interface common across all of their text based effects).

Simplifying software with XDCAM Browser

November 10, 2010, 10:21 AM

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

AVID MEETS ITS (FILM) MASTER

November 9, 2010, 11:06 AM

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

At the Editors Guild’s Hollywood headquarters on November 2, representatives from Avid and Digital Vision demonstrated the digital workflow that tightens the relationship between editorial and DI or color grading. Avid products specialist Casey Richards, Digital Vision senior product manager Bruno Munger and Digital Vision colorist Susumu Asano illustrated the way that Avid Media Composer and ISIS storage have a seamless interchange with Digital Vision’s Nucoda Film Master.

Restoring a Classic 'Bridge'

November 9, 2010, 11:05 AM

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

The high-definition Blu-ray format was made for the epic grandeur of filmmaker David Lean. Up until the November 2 release of The Bridge on the River Kwai (Sony Home Entertainment), though, we only had his final film, A Passage to India (1984), to relish in HD. But, thanks to the recent restoration by Sony's Colorworks, the Oscar-winning Kwai (1957) can finally be viewed in its proper CinemaScope aspect ratio, and has never looked as crisp and colorful. Indeed, among other things, the...

My Adobe (Non-)Switch Story

November 9, 2010, 11:04 AM

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

can clearly remember my first experience with Adobe Premiere. It was in the early 1990’s, and I was working full-time in the News Department at Wisconsin Public Television. I had managed to talk the news director into buying me a really new-fangled device – a desktop computer. I believe it was a first-generation Pentium, maybe 90Mhz. I had been into computers since about 1984, and had composed music and scored a lot of TV programs using Atari computers. Geekery was in my blood.