It’s A Boy Linkage: May 09
By S Simmons. Filed in Blogs and links, from the net, linkage |
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.
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.