Avid Media Composer 5.5 Upgrade info

February 28, 2011, 02:21 PM

http://www.videoguys.com/Blog/PL/0xf98e7616a95ee14...

Last week Avid announced that they would be releasing and shipping the newest version of Media Composer on March 8th - a full month before NAB! This is very exciting news and it created a flury of tweets, blog posts and discussions in user groups and forums.

Good cup o'Jack at Java Post

February 28, 2011, 02:20 PM

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/blog/2011/02/28/ja...

Jack Tunnicliffe is the owner-operator of two successful companies in Western Canada that serve broadcast clients along both coasts. His post-production facility Java Post Production provides editing and visual effects for broadcast TV, commercials and ad agency productions. Caffeine Commercial Productions is an award-winning production company that works alongside Java Post with their commercial and corporate clients. Sounds like Jack also serves up a mean cup of dark roasted brew.

Avid Customers Continue Annual Winning Streak

February 28, 2011, 02:19 PM

http://www.avid.com/US/press-room/Avid-Customers-C...

Rick Young - Final Cut Pro Tips and Tricks (part 1

February 28, 2011, 12:22 PM

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

Rick Young demonstrates Final Cut Pro editing and workflow techniques; recorded at The Frontline Club; UKFCUG meeting, Feb. 24, 2011.

Thunderbolt, rumors of a new version of FCP

February 28, 2011, 12:21 PM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/4350/thunderbolt...

Congrats to Kirk and Angus for recieving the Editing Oscar statuette for their work on The Social Network. Shot with MX Reds, edited on FInal Cut Pro, the norm for Angus for the last few years, with DI by Michael Cioni at LightIron digital. This proves that FCP is no longer relegated to second class status.

Editing Oscar Backstage Thank You Cam

February 28, 2011, 07:15 AM

https://www.aotg.com/editing-oscar-backstage-thank-you-cam/

Here's Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall's back stage thank you cam moment after winning the Oscar for best film editing.

What is Apple doing with QuickTime?

February 28, 2011, 07:13 AM

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2011/02/what-is-appl...

As expected, AV Foundation from iOS 4 will be added to Lion. My take is that signals the end of QuickTime as we’ve known it. But it’s not only that there’s a new Framework for for working with time-based audiovisual media – there’s a lot more to Quicktime than that, and it’s all the interactive and additional technologies in QuickTime that don’t appear to have a future. Features that were important when QuickTime MOVs were the preferred (at Apple) distribution format.

SOCIAL NETWORK WINS OSCAR FOR BEST EDITING

February 28, 2011, 07:11 AM

http://www.oscars.com

Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall have won the Oscar for Best film editing.

Thunderbolt: a new era for demanding video editors

February 27, 2011, 03:14 PM

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

As we have amply covered in multiple articles in ProVideo Coalition magazine, demanding online editing of multiple realtime HD video layers requires a high bandwidth connection to an external disk array, especially in the tapeless acquisition era, when it is even more desirable to use RAID5 (or equivalent). In many cases, it is also extremely desirable to have a high bandwidth connection to advanced video i/o devices from companies like AJA, Blackmagic, and Matrox.

Quicktips 2011 Day 27: Speed up FCP’s XDCAMexpor

February 27, 2011, 03:12 PM

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

This Reader Quicktip comes to us from James Stuckey Weber and it’s a tip to speed up the exporting process of the XDCAM format in Final Cut Pro. I don’t do a lot of XDCAM export from FCP so I can’t confirm the rather dramatic speed-up this tip claims but I can’t deny it either. When the XDCAM export does present itself next time I’ll be trying it out.