Some links for Thanksgiving reading and watching
By S Simmons. Filed in Editing |
Ahhh the lazy Thanksgiving weekend when you eat too much, watch too much tv and maybe get your eyes scratched out by the rabid mother of 5 going for that last Playstation 3 with 10 free Blu-ray movies. If you want to spend some quality time on the Internet over the holiday then here’s a few links I’ve enjoyed over the last few days:
EU fines Sony, others for videotape price fixes. These goons were fixing prices on professional videotape formats like Beta SP and Digital Beta. And they were fined about $109 million dollars. Am I the only one that feels like corporations only get a slap on the wrist when the misbehave these days? Maybe Michael Moore will look into this.
Ticklebooth pointed to the wonderful Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe that someone has put on MySpace. For a fill of Werner visit his official site.
This Amazon Kindle thing looks interesting. But $399 … kinda steep. And I wonder how it will fair at the beach?
FxFactory has gone version 2.0. Get your upgrade now as I’m sure it will be worth it. We reviewed FxFactory Pro not long ago.
Stephen King apparently approves of the new ending to the new film adaptation of The Mist and thinks anyone who reveals the last 5 minutes “should be hung from their neck until dead.” This might be appropriate for other things as well.
Editing “Organazized” talks about a new credit seen in the UK called the “edit producer.” This seems like quite a disturbing trend. I think we have the same thing here in the US and it’s called the ad agency.
For all of us who ever editing Avid before 2000, Little Frog In High Def has posted some photos of the proper use of the old big and heavy RMAG hard drives. We really don’t know how good we’ve got it these days.
Loren Miller had written what is probably the single best article about moving from Avid to Final Cut Pro called the Changeover Challenge.
Ed Burn’s new film Purple Violets has hit iTunes as the first feature to be exclusively distributed on iTunes. I like his movies and it’s great to see some alternative distribution but if I can’t burn it to a DVD and watch it on my own home theatre system then what’s the point? Watch a feature film for the first time on my iPhone? I think not
And finally, be careful if driving for Thanksgiving!
(Thanks to the Garage blog for that nice pic. And check for speed traps there too!)
