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Sunrise over Vegas, Monday morn

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What did u have for dinner 2nite?

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The NAB calm before the people storm

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Dylan Reeve is looking for some comments about the whole Avid vs. Final Cut Pro thing. Help an editor out and post up a few comments of your own.

Suite Take has an article on LTO-4 tape archiving. Of interest if you have a bunch of RED footage in lying around on hard drives. And while we’re on the topic of lots of data on drives read about a Man Crushed Under Weight of 34 Terabytes.

Quantel posted an article about our RED camera workflow here at Filmworkers. Add that to my Joy of Quantel’s RED workflow via Automatic Duck and you’ve got one of the best RED workflows out there.

There’s a new social networking website for editors called posteditors.com. It describes itself as “The Facebook for editors.”

The DV Show talks about Preparing Video for the iPhone.

DV’s NAB 09 cheat sheet is a good place to start.

If you’re done reading Kendal Miller’s article about camera reports then you can grab a pdf camera report geared toward shooting on the RED One. And speaking of FreshDV and assistant camera duties, if you haven’t read Matthew Jeppsen’s Weary AC Rant then click here.

HDFilmtools.com recently posted a A Chat with Avid Sr. Product Designer Frank Capria.

Seems that Yahoo is shutting down the JumpCut online video editing service. Go figure.

Here’s a story about Randy Ubillos, a guy behind Final Cut Pro and iMovie.

I’ve been using the Shrigg rig mount recently with my HV20 and GT35Pro adapter but if you don’t want to mount upside down then this quick Home Depot rails support might be just what you need.

Kevin Smith always has something good to say in an interview.

Applemotion.net linked to a great Frame Blending with Optical Flow tutorial.

Here’s some free DVD-case Photoshop templates.

And I posted an article about indie film April Showers and their great website resources over on the Editblog on PVC.

Links from Twitter:

firstshowing found Michael Bay on Twitter.

stevensantos linked to Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style.

KarstenM likes this Death Cab for Cutie short film/msic video. It is nice.

creattica found these 50 swanky icon sets for Macs.

davedelaney asked Are you getting your money’s worth using Netflix? Uhhh …. no.

BrianJKim found this article from John Mellencamp about the state of the music business.

A lot of Twitterers posted this link to a Tax Tips for Artists article. Too late now for this link maybe next year.

Off-topic:

Set up an auction using Craigslist and Google Docs.

There are essential Firefox add-ons.

If you’ve ever had an old liscense for Quark XPress then you might be able to use that for an upgrade to Quark 8.

I should probably read this about baby photography before my baby comes along.

I believe I posted this link over to the Keyboard Manifesto at the Editblog on PVC a bit after it came out but since the blog was being hacked for nearly a week it seems to be gone. Here’s an excerpt:

When it comes to increased productivity and better efficiency while editing, saving time every place an editor can will help increase that productivity and efficiency. And we all know saving time is the client’s favorite thing as saving time means saving money. My favorite time saver in Final Cut Pro has been to remap the majority of the default keyboard setup. Since I began using FCP way back around 1999, one of my earliest thoughts was that the default keys weren’t very well thought out.

The Keyboard Manifesto makes a case for remapping the default Final Cut Pro keyboard to something that is much more geared toward editing efficiency and not just remembering where the commands are on the keyboard are located by their first letter.

If you’re coming to NAB I’ll be doing a presentation on this very topic at the Final Cut Pro User Group Network SuperBooth on Wednesday, April 22nd at 2:00 PM. There are presentations going on at the SuperBooth throughout the week and I am honored to do the same. The entire schedule is available at this pdf link.

The 2009 NAB SuperMeet is on April 21, just over a week away, so if you haven’t gotten your tickets yet then the time to buy it now. You don’t want to miss the show which includes presentations on both technology and the art of editing and filmmaking as well. Plus there’s the famous raffle that is up to $70,000 worth of prizes? JVC has announced “Something SuperSecret” for the raffle as well. Could it be one of their native QuickTime shooting cameras? No one knows for sure so you’ll just have to head to Vegas next week to find out. 

I spoke with Michael Horton, the LAFCPUG guru and Digital Production Buzz co-host himself recently and asked him a number of questions about the SuperMeet:

How long has the LAFCPUP been hosting the SuperMeet at NAB?

Lafcpug doesn’t host the SuperMeet. Myself and Daniel Berube of the Boston Final Cut Pro User Group are co-producers of this event and part of a larger
network of FCP UGs from around the world that is called the Final Cut Pro User Group Network. Lafcpug is just a part of the SuperMeet experience like all other UGs. In no way does it host the event.

Is the SuperMeet an actual extension of the NAB conference or is just held in conjunction with the conference?

It is held in conjunction and in no way affiliated at all with NAB. Same thing when we do this event along side Macworld and IBC. We choose to do it this way because many FCS users are already there and SuperMeets serve as a social gathering spot as well as a place to go and learn.

How has the SuperMeet grown over the years?

This is the 8th year we have been doing it at NAB, Macworld and just last year, IBC in Amsterdam. We have gone from a tiny room at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas attracting about 200 people, to giant ballrooms attracting more than 1000 people. Our first meet in San Francisco was at a Dentists office.

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Paul Zadie has begun a series on his blog called 10 Ways to Edit Faster and More Efficiently. So far he has two entries:

Part 1 – File Organization

Part 2 – Bin Organiziation

As one who is always looking for good tips to edit “faster and more efficiently” I’ll be looking forward to entries 3 – 10! Follow along on Paul’s blog.

Sorry if you are getting this post in your feed a second time. I’ve had tremendous website problems for over a week. I hope they are solved now.

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