The Editblog

A couple of months ago I took my Canon HV20 and GT35pro lens adapter down to the Barber Motorsports Park to watch the Indy Racing League pre-season test. Just in time for tomorrow’s Indy 500 I (finally) got a little 3 minute edit of the footage that I shot. I used my 300mm zoom to try and get close to the cars. I produced an unintentional but very cool tilt-shift effect. Check out the video and discussion of the shooting and editing in a post at the Editblog on PVC.

Help a filmmaker out: FCProducer is looking for comments on RED vs. 35mm film.

Frank Capria responds to an article from Robert Cringley about the future of tv.

First we had Indy Mogul and now we will have Film Riot.

Awesome Steadicam shot.

Splice Here has posted two recent Avid Media Composer video tutorials: Advanced Keyframes and Toolsets and Workspaces.

Final Draft recently updated to version 8.

Regal Cinemas is choosing Sony as their digital projector of choice.

This is a good side by side comparison of Vimeo and YouTube HD.

Here’s a RED reel from NAB.

What’s you thoughts on the 30 Greatest Movie Songs Ever? This list would be fun for original movie songs as well. Does that exist? 

There’s also Cameron Crowe’s Top 10 (Or So) Music Moments in Film.

Yes, good compositing and graphics is possible in Avid Media Composer.

Another good Avid vs. Final Cut Pro article.

Here’s a good article on moving the Home folder in Mac OSX.

Here’s a compact XLR microphone adapter than can be used with the HV20.

The trailer for the delayed adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel The Road is up. There’s also an article on Esquire about the film.

Michael Critz posted an article on his blog about how he uses the simple database application Bento to manage tapes.

Do you ever get tired of looking at HDR images? Some can be over the top.

Don’t forget about the Ultimate Filmmaker Competition.

Oh and to really waste a lot of time here’s 505 Behind the Scenes of Movies videos.

Links from Twitter:

Nicholaspatten linked 20 Short Films and Music Videos Made with After Effects

anders_at_work found some Spotlight plug-ins for R3Ds, DPXs and Cineon files.

Scott Rouse points to how you get your Lightroom catalog to an external drive.

nicholasrivero found a video about what a camera shader does.

wingrove tweeted about a teleprompter for the iPhone.

WeyW found a fantastic article on the Coen brothers’ storyboard artist.

imagetic found more great tilt-shift video action on Vimeo.

guycochran found a video about how to fake blue only mode on low end monitors.

And as always, creattica has tweeted tons of great links over the last month. Here’s a few:

60+ Useful Adobe AIR Applications You Should Know (good, ’cause other than Tweetdeck I haven’t found any but Adobe Story might change that)

100 (Really) Creative Business Cards (the secret? Custom die cutting and $$ to spend on them!)

“Font Squirrel aims to be the best resource for high-quality, commercial-use, FREE fonts.”

And since we now have the editbaby in house here’s Time’s 7 iPhone Apps for New Moms, about.com’s Top 10 iPhone Apps Every Dad Should Have, babble’s 10 Best iPhone Apps For Distracting Young Children, and Mommy Poppins’ Top 10 iPhone Apps for Moms and Dads.

In honor of the brand new addition to my family I think this Vimeo is perfect (found via Tickelbooth):

Last Day Dream from torbjon on Vimeo.

Please pardon the lack of posting and updating right around now and the next few days … my wife is trying to have the editbaby …

Starting this Sunday, May 10, HBO Documentary Films is going to begin air a 4 part documentary series on Alzheimer’s disease called The Alzheimer’s Project. Normally I probably wouldn’t promote or post about an HBO film but this series looks to be a bit more important than most. Alzheimer’s disease is a cruel brain disease that affects over half of all Americans and has an indirect cost estimated at more than $148 billion annually. Any disease with that kind of broad reaching impact deserves a special event like this that HBO is producing. I’ve personally been affected by the disease as my mother suffers from Alzheimer’s and I’ve seen the toll it can take on both the victims and their friends and family so I’ve been encouraging all that I can to watch this series.

But what if you don’t have HBO? It is after all a premium channel that you have to pay extra for. It would appear that HBO is going to provide access to this entire series in almost all media outlets available today. If you have come across the printed advertisements for The Alzheimer’s Project in any number of major magazines you may have seen the list of where the program will be available:

• WATCH IT on HBO and other HBO channels
• STREAM IT on HBO.com
• OWN IT on DVD
• DOWNLOAD IT as a podcast
• READ IT in the companion book
• VIEW IT whenever you want on HBO On Demand

It may have happened before but I’m not aware of any other multimedia event that has been broadcast across so many different “new media” outlets. It’s a great use of most all of the distribution channels available today to get the message out about this important subject. Thanks for taking the time to read this post and I hope you are able to check out this documentary series. You can find out more information on Alzheimer’s disease below:

About a month or so ago we recorded a new That Post Show which was a 30 day follow-up to an earlier show about Avid’s Media Composer 3.5 announcements. A number of us on the show had been using the new MC version for a while and we had a great discussion that included two people from Avid there to chime in on the discussion and answer questions. The show is now online. Listen at that link or subscribe via iTunes (iTunes link).

So for your odd video diversion of the day:

Is that thing real? Animatronic? Is it even legal to have a lemur in your dorm room? At least its not a pig.