Improving the Look of Your Titles

September 28, 2010, 02:51 PM

http://splicehere.org/2010/09/28/improving-the-loo...

Avid’s venerable Title Tool has come in for a lot of criticism over the years, but despite its limitations, it’s often the best way to get a simple titling job done, and it has many hidden features that many people don’t seem to know about. Here are a couple of my favorites

Why 2D to 3D Conversion is Good for the Industry

September 28, 2010, 10:51 AM

http://bourkepr.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/09/irid...

2D to 3D has received a lot of bad press lately. But with the industry plowing forward with a slew of new 3D productions, I think it's time we look at the bigger picture, and how 2D to 3D conversion technology will play a bigger role than many may think.

What should Apple do with Final Cut Pro?

September 28, 2010, 09:02 AM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/09/what-should-...

Writing applications is in some ways similar to building a house. There’s usually an initial plan, often with stages to be added in future releases planned from the start. (I once asked a Digital Production BuZZ guest, around the time of FCP 4.5, if everything from their original wish list was in Final Cut Pro: response, nowhere near all!) However, over time, additions get added on; another "room" here, another one there.

Review: Adobe CS5 Master Suite

September 27, 2010, 05:01 PM

http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2010/Volume-33...

In April, Adobe updated its Creative Suite 5 (CS5). Every Creative Suite update is a massive undertaking for Adobe, because every one of its core products gets updated—from the venerable Photoshop to Web design software such as Dreamweaver and Flash, to graphic design products such as Illustrator and InDesign, to video products such as After Effects and Premiere Pro. This creates a lot of new features in a lot of different packages, so this review will focus on Photoshop, After Effects...

Adobe’s CS Review Access in Premiere Pro CS5

September 27, 2010, 04:54 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=4297

Well here’s something I wasn’t aware of: Adobe’s online review and approval portal CS Review supports your editing sequences for review and approval right out of Premiere Pro CS5, via the CS Live button. This video popped up the other day and is a quick rundown on exactly how the process works. Basically it’s a way to encode, upload, have people view and comment and then get those review comments downloaded right into Premiere Pro CS5....

Interviews with SingularSoft and OWC

September 27, 2010, 11:04 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/atepper/sto...

Avid Agility at Amazon / PDF Samples

September 26, 2010, 11:51 AM

http://splicehere.org/2010/09/25/avid-agility-at-a...

For those of you curious to get a look at the merchandise, I've uploaded some sample pages from Avid Agility. To make the files small, image quality is somewhat degraded, but I think you'll get the idea. You can purchase the book from the publisher, CreateSpace, and now from Amazon, as well. (Amazon's "look inside" feature will be live in a couple of days.)

ASE Codec Lecture Part 2 of 12

September 24, 2010, 03:02 PM

http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/assocvideo.php

Australian Screen Editors presents "Demystifying Codecs", a seminar on video codecs by Chris Reynolds. This is part 2 of 12. Topics covered in this part include: Quicktime, AVI, Gamma, Prores, DNxHD, Uncompressed, P2, XDCAM EX, RED. Chris Reynolds is an editor at ActiveMotion. This event was held on 13 May 2009.

Whale of an Edit

September 24, 2010, 02:38 PM

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/videoedsys/revfe...

It would seem that Liz Bronstein never sleeps. As executive producer of Animal Planet's Whale Wars, Bronstein oversees the creation of the dramatic documentary series, which is set in the remote Southern Ocean off the coast of Antarctica. It is there that the small fleet of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-whaling activist group, actively attempts to thwart the efforts of Japanese whaling vessels. Violent storms, equipment breakdowns, and fierce clashes between boats are the norm.

Demo of Assisted Editing's Finisher Software

September 24, 2010, 01:15 PM

https://www.aotg.com/demo-of-assisted-editings-finisher-software/

Give Finisher a "radio cut" (audio from interviews) and it will "Finish" the edit with lower thirds from a Motion Template, b-roll and opening title in just seconds.