Avid Further Expands Open Workflow Innovations

February 15, 2011, 09:14 AM

http://www.avid.com/US/press-room/Avid-Further-Exp...

Digital Serfs

February 15, 2011, 09:13 AM

http://splicenow.com/2011/02/14/digital-serfs/

We in post production are digital content creators, too, and many are facing declining wages as our technology gets democratized. Will Huffington Post begin to pay everyone? Or will we continue to chase each other to the bottom? Jaron Lanier, in his brilliant book "You Are Not a Gadget," indicates that creative people are destined to become the peasants of the digital age. "The combination of hive mind and advertising has resulted in a new kind of social contract," he says.

"Or once."

February 15, 2011, 09:12 AM

http://incontention.com/2011/02/14/or-once/

I can't let February the 14th pass without some acknowledgement on my part, so here it is: one of the coolest, warmest, hottest romantic exchanges I can think of in any movie. Scott Frank's writing is conversational poetry here, Anne V. Coates's editing shapes all the politics of lovemaking into a single scene, and George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, both as beautiful and as human as they've ever been on screen, define chemistry. I love this scene. I love this movie. Happy Valentine's Day.

Using a Sync Sound Workflow

February 15, 2011, 09:10 AM

http://library.creativecow.net/harrington_richard/...

In this DSLR tutorial Richard and Robbie discuss recording audio with a DSLR Camera vs the workflow involved with using a dedicated digital audio recorder to record the audio.

Showing Great Form – 1.1.1 Update Available

February 15, 2011, 09:08 AM

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/downloads/updates/

This update to Form fixes several issues, including: * Loading older projects or using presets caused ram-preview, undo, and orthographic views to have problems. * Odd moire patterns in dense particle grids. As always, you can find updates for all of our products here:

Precursor of Final Cut Pro

February 15, 2011, 08:58 AM

http://www.motionvfx.com/mblog/post,p435.html

I am thinking a lot about Final Cut Studio future lately... especially about Apple Motion future. Nobody knows what Apple will do next, but whatever they'll do, I still believe it will be smart and professional.

Lightworks Chosen To Edit 'The King's Sp

February 14, 2011, 07:38 PM

http://www.digitalmedia-world.com/index.php?option...

Lightworks was introduced in 1989 as one of the first professional editing systems available, with intuitive controls, real-time synchronization, and GPU effects pipeline architecture allowing Lightworks to scale with your system. Real time Primary and Secondary colour correctors and effects layers scale with your GPU. Lightworks has native support for MXF, Quicktime, AVI, RED R3D, DPX, Avid DNxHD, ProRes and many other formats, and also has extensive trimming tools.

A film editor by any other name...

February 14, 2011, 05:47 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?page_id=19

Happy Valentine's day! I've made a special quiz for you. Look at each word in the left column and pick the correct word in the right column. Jot down you answers and see how you did tomorrow.

Editor Lenny Mesina talks Beats Rhymes and Life

February 14, 2011, 03:14 PM

https://www.aotg.com/editor-lenny-mesina-talks-beats-rhymes-and-life/

MakingOf sits down with editor Lenny Mesina to discuss his craft and 'Beats Rhymes & Life'

UK colourists offer DaVinci Resolve masterclasses

February 14, 2011, 03:13 PM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/news/?newsid=326098...

Blackmagic Design’s series of DaVinci Resolve master classes at BVE 2011 this week will be led by two top UK colourists, Darren Mostyn and James Tonkin. On Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 February at 5pm, Darren Mostyn will demonstrate his skills and experience in grading a recent BBC documentary. Darren is owner and senior colourist for Brighton-based post production facility, Online Creative, which opened in 1999. With years of editing experience using non-linear color grading systems...