Universal Studios/EFILM open virtual DI suite

October 18, 2010, 09:40 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=4444

Universal City, CA–In a joint venture, EFILM, a subsidiary of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, and Universal Studios opened a Digital Intermediate suite on the Universal Studios lot, in proximity to the studio’s sound mixing stages, sound editorial rooms, picture editing suites and other sound services. Since both final sound mixing and the DI come at the end of the post production chain for feature films, having both services in physical proximity allows the director to walk from room.....

Working with H.264 footage from a Canon 7D

October 17, 2010, 09:11 AM

http://ronsussmanedits.blogspot.com/2010/10/workin...

While color correcting some 7D footage yesterday I noticed that the gamma levels on the original H.264 and the converted ProRes(HQ) files were different. The ProRes having considerably darker black levels. The clips were converted to ProRes though Magic Bullet Grinder (thank you Stu) and MPEGStreamclip. The converted files appear darker and the blacks levels look more crunched than the orig H.264 clip.

Monitoring Audio During Capture

October 17, 2010, 09:09 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip223.html

You are not going deaf -- this is off by default. Audio monitoring during capture first appeared with Final Cut Pro 5.

AYUMI ASHLEY: COLORING "THE LIE" PART 1

October 16, 2010, 09:38 AM

http://prepshootpost.blogspot.com/2010/10/ayumi-as...

Hello, Ayumi Ashley here. Last month I colored Joshua Leonard's feature film, "The Lie," and there were some unique things about the process that Eric thought you PSP folk might find interesting.

October 16, 2010, 09:34 AM

http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/win-tickets...

Raid Failure and a Terminal Trick

October 16, 2010, 09:31 AM

http://lfhd.net/2010/10/16/raid-failure-and-a-term...

Well, it had to happen sometime. I can only say that I must be blessed or something to have been editing on my own system for...what, 6 years now?... and not one time did I have a drive fail on me in the middle of an edit. I have had failures AFTER I delivered. Or when I was loading something. A G-Raid here, LaCie there...bare Hitachi internal one other time. But not once DURING an edit have I had a RAID fail.

Only Capture the Audio Tracks You Need

October 16, 2010, 09:28 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip222.html

Select which audio tracks you capture or ingest. In both the Log & Capture window and the Log & Transfer window, you can specify which audio tracks you want to bring into Final Cut.

FCP Helpers

October 16, 2010, 09:20 AM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/fcp-h...

Apple Final Cut Pro is generally said to be an 80/20 application, trading off some niche features for a lower price. More often than not, this descriptor is meant in the negative. Avid editors using FCP frequently lament about media management, render files and so on when comparing FCP with Media Composer.

Preditor, The Hydra that Never Sleeps

October 15, 2010, 11:18 AM

http://www.elskid.com/blog/preditor-the-hydra-that...

One of the wonderful things about being on Twitter is that you get to exchange pleasantries with folks from all over the world without really bothering yourself with such banalities as time zones. After a while though you start to realise something pretty fundamental. No-one sleeps. Many of us are so-called Preditors, those people that do everything in production.

Avid Screencast #43: Audio Basics III

October 14, 2010, 09:54 AM

http://avidscreencast.com/2010/10/43-audio-basics-...

This week, we’ll make some very simple audio edits, create transitions, check out waveforms and get rid of those horrid pops that are sometimes created by audio edits. This is actually the first part of a show that was to include the audio mixer as well, but the episode just turned out to be way too long so I had to split it up into two parts.