It is with great pleasure that I can announce the Editblog is going to be moving over the ProVideo Coalition! (I just discovered the sticky feature in Wordpress so I’ve moved this to the top of the front page so new visitors to the Editblog can easily get to the Editblog on PVC.)
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The 2010 Oscar nominations have been announced. The show is March 7.
The 2nd ever of our monthly reminder to backup you system. Read the PVC post if you need some backup utility suggestions. Otherwise subscribe to the RSS feed here for the reminder.
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You got less than a week to get tickets for the next FCP User Group SuperMeet. This one is February 5 in San Francisco. It will be at the Robertson Auditorium with doors opening at 3:30 pm for the “Digital Showcase” and the show beginning at 7:00. Just looking at the event’s website it looks like there’s a great list of raffle prizes … as always. This one includes a Canon 5D Mark II, AJA Ki Pro, Adobe CS4 (!), Avid Media Composer 4 (!!) and several BlackMagic cards among a lot of other great goodies. Prizes aren’t the only thing on the schedule and this agenda looks to be a strong one:
* Smoke on Mac OSX – Alexandre Domingue
* “Destroy Me” – Jordan Livingston (music vid)
* AJA KiPro – Jon Thorn
* Best Workflow for Canon File-Based Cameras – Joe Bogacz
* Motion 4 Does 3D – Mark Spencer
* The Idea behind IDEO’s Living Climate Change – Matt Silverman
* The New Speed Tools in FCP 7 – Kevin Monahan
* Hand Held Hollywood – Taz Goldstein
* And MORE
Both the Smoke demo and the Canon workflow should be of interest to many. I would say to click here and sign up for some free workshops but most are sold out. As of this writing 2 aren’t so click here anyway and try to get them or to see what you might be missing. Grab your tickets before they are all gone.
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There was great tweet that came over the ether from David Stripinis that linked to this YouTube video: The 100 Cheesiest Movie Quotes of All Time. It’s priceless and worth 10 minutes of your time if you like movies at all. If you really want to enjoy it to its fullest click over to the actual YouTube page and open the info box on the side where the creator has listed all of the movies in order of appearance.
In case you missed it, RED’s Ted had a Scarlet prototype (among other things) he was showing at CES.
We’re starting a monthly backup reminder. And here’s another backup discussion.
It’s a good idea for editors to understand the basics of audio compression.
Post Fifth Pictures wrote about their experience with FCP, AE and gamma issues.
Here’s a nice camera blocking case study.
Here’s 15 companies that make After Effects plug-ins.
Dropbox is a great web service. And you can use it for quick, easy and free client screeners.
Tyler Ginter tells us all about the 180 degree shutter.
It’s an After Effects CS4 keyboard shortcut cheat sheet.
And yet another DSLR filmmaker’s workflow.
Ever need to remove a Final Cut Studio license?
It’s always worth reading an article on fair use. This one is for documentaries.
Want to see what that installer installs? Here’s a tip.
Motion graphics artist Brad Chmielewski’s blog has Type Tuesday.
Let’s look at a brief history of video compression.
Here’s a little web app to convert Avid Locators into Final Cut Studio usable chapter markers.
So Tiffen has introduced a little Steadicam for the iPhone. Good God make it stop.
54 highly resourceful after effects tutorials.
So there are still DPs who shoot film.
Here’s a recently discovered blog from Brad Cordeiro about reality tv post and related adventures.
Panasonic introduced this $21,000 3D camera.
Plug-in maker idustrial revolution has a Facebook page. Let’s all become a fan.
Do you use AppZapper to uninstall apps on the Mac? It’s been updated.
It’s some lessons in DIY, guerrilla filmmaking.
Here’s a DIY gearless follow focus.
For still shooters, here’s metering modes explained.
Did you make your professional New Years Resolutions?
Links from Twitter:
angelobell: When YES means “Yes,” and when YES means “no” in the film industry – http://ow.ly/TosV
nicholaspatten: 10 Remarkably Useful Dashboard Widgets.http://bit.ly/4Nm9TI
sorensonmedia: Major Sorenson 360 Update including: HD Video and Search Engine Optimization. Find out more:http://su.pr/9NHdk3
alexm13: A Freelancer’s Guide to Dealing with Difficult Peoplehttp://su.pr/4KXLWR
nashvillest: Awesome! Free wireless network planned for downtown Nashville. http://bit.ly/85anzQ
BourkePR: FLYfx: Tracking with mocha http://bit.ly/7iRtll
flippantfilms: The struggles of getting your movie made is universal http://bit.ly/932I11
schnittman: Cool demo of Adobe’s Mercury Playback engine with AVCHD footage. http://bit.ly/4GTfyo
idustrialrev: RT @definition2009: 44 3D Production terms you need to know http://tinyurl.com/yeqlpcv
videoguys: Videoguys Blog – Avid Stereoscopic 3D Editing Guide: Take 2D to the 3D level. Learn how to edit in the 3rd dimension: http://bit.ly/7i1u1B
digitalreb: Interesting read: Could Apple be moving to a spectrum of operating systems? http://is.gd/5DA8E
iamkhayyam: The 50 Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009 |http://bit.ly/5Ong1Y
luge: What Makes A Good FIlm ‘Package’? Informative read @ Film Specific; http://snipurl.com/u3g7u
dougluberts: Great post on videomaker on a basic, but, oft confused, topic: What is a CODEC? - http://shar.es/aRnx2
sorensonmedia: Two paths to online video… or why Sorenson 360?http://su.pr/2tYs2w
And finally, 2 super simple, cheap, free DIY hacks for the iPhone.
The Late Show with David Letterman has started a segment called the Technical Maintenance Minute. The 1/5/10 segment was about Avid and for us Avid geeks it was great. Sorry the quality sucks as I grabbed it with my iPhone as the segment went by. I need to figure out how to pull good video off the Comcast DVR … so crank it up:
And there was a ProTools one back in December (after the jump)
I’ve seen LiveFonts all over local cable advertising but have rarely seen them dancing their way around national broadcast and cable television. But this morning CNN broke ‘em out during a story about the lobbying of Congress by unexpected parties during the healthcare debate:
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With this the second day of 2010 we begin a new monthly reminder from the Editblog …
This will be a quick post early in the month, each month, to remind you to take a few moments and backup! Be it just an assortment of important files or entire hard drives I hope this monthly post popping up in your RSS feed might save some files from being lost forever. There’s a reason behind this reminder – the origin of the idea and the graphic above as well as some suggestions for both local as well as online backup options over at the Editblog on PVC.
Happy 2010 and may your hard drive crashes cause minimal pain.
Tags: Backup Day
If you’re got an iPhone or iPod then you might very well have a product from Griffin Technologies. These folks have been churning out accessories, peripherals and consumer electronics for a lot of years now. To kick off 2010 they are unveiling a new logo and driving across the country in a “(somewhat) restored 37-year old VW camper-van crammed full of Griffin gear.”
Their final destination will be the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. You can follow all this madness at Griffin’s CES Bound site that will chronicle the adventure. With 5 people crammed into the van, lots of iPhones and Flip cams, laptops and wifi hotspots, there’s bound to be a lot of pics, videos and updates beamed back from the road. Meetups are being planned along the route as well (December 30th in New Orleans, LA; December 31st in Austin, TX; January 1st in El Paso or Las Cruces; January 2nd in Phoenix, AZ and January 3rd in Grand Canyon, AZ). You can RSVP for any of the meetups at the CES Bound site. If you can’t make any of their planned events and you happen to see the orange and white Vee Dub along the way, stop and say hello and you might get a handful of swag. Who doesn’t like swag?
Oh, what to look for along the road? Here it is but it will be decked out with Griffin’s new logo, curtains, billowing smoke from the cabin and exhaust and 5 (possibly weary) road warriors with lots of electronic gear:
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