The above video has been making the rounds lately. I’m a sucker for single shot productions that are well executed and this Johnnie Walker piece is a great example of a simple concept, talented delivery and great production value that all come together to pull it off. Now if only Johnnie Walker was half as good as a nice single malt like Laphroaig or Lagavulin.
The good folks over at Tangent Devices recently sent us one of their control surfaces for testing with Color; the Tangent Wave. After hooking it up and checking it out for an hour or so this afternoon I can say, without a doubt in my mind, that color grading (and using Apple Color in particular) without a control surface dedicated to color grading is like doing most any task with one hand tied behind your back. And that’s mainly from just using the trackballs and dials and not really digging deeper into all the keys and functionality. Stay tuned to the Editblog on PVC for more thoughts, impressions and a full review of the Tangent Wave.
Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School.
If you’ve ever wanted to attend film school then this is it. While it’s not your typical 4 year or 2 year program it’s sure to be a very unique weekend at “a conference room of a Los Angeles hotel” during the weekend of January 8-10, 2010, with the master himself, Werner Herzog. For a $25 application fee, and $1450 if you are accepted, you won’t get any technical training nor will you get a lunch. But what you will get is guaranteed to be an experience unlike any other from a filmmaker unlike any other. If you don’t understand what that means then you don’t know Herzog and most certainly shouldn’t even be considering attending his film school. Read through the about page and get a better idea of what might be in store … though somehow I bet no one, not even Herzog, knows for sure.
Noah Kadner’s book about the RED camera has been released and is pretty much the only one.
Check out my ParticleMetrix review for Studio Monthly. Verdict : sweet.
Little Frog talks about a sequence clip reporter app.
Here’s 10 good steps to getting and keeping a client.
Here’s discussion of Final Cut Studio and Avid feature requests.
Cartoon Creator looks like a fun iPhone app, especially for the budding, young animator.
Is it really cheaper to shoot digitally than to shoot film?
This is a great RED based article from Mike Jones.
Is 222 Apple Motion tutorials enough to keep you busy for a while?
Andy Mees talks about some secret FCP shortcuts.
The built-in Final Cut Pro cropping won’t feather the edge when you actually crop but this plug-in solves that problem.
myDVDEdit wants to be the ResEdit for DVDs … but from the website it’s kinda hard to find out exactly what it does.
Here’s an AIR based app that is a library of Adobe application shortcuts.
Concentrate promises to help get work done.
You can reveal hidden menu bar functions in Snow Leopard.
This is a cool power strip.
Here’s a summer 2009 movie wrap-up.
A couple of cool After Effects filters include Bitweiser Light to deal with overexposed footage and Bad TV to make some bad tv.
Animoto does “beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your media. Free, fast and shockingly easy.” You know, when you don’t want to edit them yourself.
Here’s a color correction case study on a feature film in a nice 27 minute video.
Make it easier to find what you’re looking for with the new Snow Leopard.
What does a 1917 motion picture and a RED camera have in common?
Here’s a very niche book about guerrilla horror filmmakers.
The Yelp iPhone app has added a hidden “augmented reality” feature.
ae tuts has a cool lesson on creating those glitchy interface animations that are quite common.
Gruml is a new Google Reader stand-alone app from the Mac.
Links from Twitter:
shepherdfx20 Creative Apps For Your iPhonehttp://su.pr/1nYHrl
danielkutzThe Horror that is Pan and Scanhttp://bit.ly/gOSMb
hennincFree encoding recipes PDF for Compressor, Squeeze and the likes – via Jim Curtis on FCP-L http://bit.ly/19tHlZ
bcfilmmakerRED ALERT! 10 Things RED Camera Users Need To Know http://bit.ly/FUSZ7
digitalrebCan FCP and FCE be installed on the same drive? Apparently so: http://tinyurl.com/n89t4a
rhedpixel Quentin Tarantino: Hit director when he picks a genre people care about, an expensive hobbyist when he doesn’t. http://bit.ly/mTOp0
ericnon America’s subsidies for filmmaking http://bit.ly/XCEtp
AvidTechnology Knowledge Base >> Importing media from a ‘Flip’ Camera: http://bit.ly/kOWlU
ianshepherd Why mp3s sound bad, and how to hear it http://twurl.nl/5cn6km
And a bit off topic:
50 things that are being killed by the Internet. I might add high quality video production to that too.
carbongirl Top 20 most unbelievable photos! http://bit.ly/WUW4M
pablokorona: http://unscrewamerica.org/ how have i not seen this site before?!?!
nicholaspattenFast Food Revealed: Real vs. Ads.http://bit.ly/1bBlyK (I want to do this with video!)
wingrove Buy a gorgeous Replica 1967 F1 car. Hit the gallery for some hand built engineering goodness.. http://www.f1-67.com/index…. (click this link open wheel racing fans and prepare to drool!)
Book of the month:
Music of the month:
(or if you really want the physical disc: The ’59 Sound on CD
This interesting Craigslist ad was posted over on Reduser. It’s looking for a driver with Final Cut Pro experience:
Is that what post is coming to? Is that what Final Cut Pro hath brought? Way to lower the bar agency.
OK Final Cut Pro users, if ever that was a SuperMeet you want to attend it’s got to be the Amsterdam version. Sure Las Vegas is great and it’s an NAB tradition to go to the Vegas version of the SuperMeet but haven’t we all been looking for a reason to go to Amsterdam? Damn, I wish I was going. To coincide with IBC this year’s Amsterdam SuperMeet takes place on Sunday, August 13 at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky. Tickets are very affordable and as always there will be free food, a cash bar and the world famous raffle. The raffle looks good and includes an AJA IO HD and … a Blackmagic Ultrascope! The agenda set thus far includes:
While I have to wonder what the Show and Tell will consist of I’m most intrigued by the last item on the agenda, the “Interactive Discussion on the NEW FCS.” Here’s the quote from the press release: “The organizers of the SuperMeet also intend to turn the show over to the audience for an interactive discussion with Final Cut Studio experts who will answer any and all questions on the new Final Cut Studio as well as listen to user feedback and feature requests for future versions of Final Cut Studio. This portion of the meeting will be videotaped and later put on the internet for the world to see.” That looks like it could be a fun segment for the audience. I well realize that type of forum could end up running all night long but a an expert panel and audience Q&A could generate some really great discussion. I hope it won’t turn into audience members trying to get free tech support but rather an intelligent discusion on Final Cut Studio’s +’s, -’s, and its future. I’d love to sit on a panel like that if nothing more than to be the FCP nay-sayer of the bunch and make sure is doesn’t turn into an FCP love-in! Don’t get me wrong, I love FCP but like any application it does have it’s problems. Hopefully Apple will have representatives taking notes. There’s just over a week to do so get your tickets while you still can.
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