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If you’re got an iPhone or iPod then you might very well have a product from Griffin Technologies. These folks have been churning out accessories, peripherals and consumer electronics for a lot of years now. To kick off 2010 they are unveiling a new logo and driving across the country in a “(somewhat) restored 37-year old VW camper-van crammed full of Griffin gear.”

Their final destination will be the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. You can follow all this madness at Griffin’s CES Bound site that will chronicle the adventure. With 5 people crammed into the van, lots of iPhones and Flip cams, laptops and wifi hotspots, there’s bound to be a lot of pics, videos and updates beamed back from the road. Meetups are being planned along the route as well (December 30th in New Orleans, LA; December 31st in Austin, TX; January 1st in El Paso or Las Cruces; January 2nd in Phoenix, AZ  and January 3rd in Grand Canyon, AZ). You can RSVP for any of the meetups at the CES Bound site. If you can’t make any of their planned events and you happen to see the orange and white Vee Dub along the way, stop and say hello and you might get a handful of swag. Who doesn’t like swag?

Oh, what to look for along the road? Here it is but it will be decked out with Griffin’s new logo, curtains, billowing smoke from the cabin and exhaust and 5 (possibly weary) road warriors with lots of electronic gear:

Thanks to all of the readers who have clicked over to the Editblog in 2009 and all the years before that. And thanks to all of those who have followed us over to Pro Video Coalition as well. We’ll continue to bring you what we hope is fun and useful content in 2010. With most new content on the Editblog going to our channel on PVC we’re trying to figure out exactly what to do and what type of stuff to post here on the original Editblog space. Stay tuned for 2010 and have a great Holiday season.

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I wrote a little piece over on PVC about edit suite etiquette and sharing your space.

Oliver Peters demystifies color grading a bit. He also posted 11 more great Final Cut Pro tips.

Studio Monthly review the AJA Ki Pro and I wrote a review there of the new Sorenson Squeeze 6.

Autodesk Smoke on the Mac: A video from fxguide and an article from Mark Christiansen.

Dylan Reeve talks about doing downconversions in Media Composer.

FCP Versioner autosaves and track changes with Final Cut Pro projects.

Mike Jones has listed a bunch of useful tools.

Sometimes you do have to sync two mics…after the fact in Final Cut Pro.

Imagineer systems, creator of mocha, now have a blog.

If you need to eject a stuck disc then this list might be for you.

A battle is brewing: HDV vs. AVCHD.

At some point it might be time to step up to a professional tripod.

The D|Focus v2 looks like a more affordable follow focus system.

Is there better compression than H.264/AVC?

There is a way to sync Photoshop presets on multiple computers.

Here’s a freebie HDR application for Mac.

If you like dogs and take photographs you must see the 25 inspirational dog portraits article on Digital Photography School.

Here’s 5 Smart Playlists to help you manage your iTunes library.

This is fun: the periodic table of visualization methods.

There’s a new Quicksilver beta!

30 books for independent filmmakers.

And here’s 5 things Hollywood reuses more than plots!

Links from Twitter:

shepherdfx Digital Factbook 20th Anniversary Edition (pdf)http://su.pr/2hFlIO – TV tech resource @Quantel

avidscreencast New Episode: Red Workflow I – Ingest R3Ds with Metafuze http://avidscreencast.com/asc08

radiantgrid Found interesting: Calibrating Colors Bars for FCP and Avid http://bit.ly/8egEL3

KarstenM Recommended reading: Tarantino’s editor Sally Menke reflects on their editor/director relationshiphttp://hurl.no/FLJ (via @theauteursdaily)

crewstv The truth about DSLR video - http://bit.ly/7ndUbv

luge TIP SHEET FOR SUNDANCE FILMMAKERS; wish I had a read before I’d made my pilgrimage/ ’07-grt info for most fests generally http://sn.im/tjsyg

tylerginter Some of the best Stedicam work I’ve seen from a DSLR! Incredible! Canon 7D Music Video – Prospect Hill “Roller Coaster” http://tr.im/GtdP

PXLpainter Thinking about taking an ACE exam for Adobe CS4? Check this out first: http://www.acequestions.com

emptyframe RT @laughingsquid: 100 Greatest Quotes From The Wire http://bit.ly/7RocqS

trimforward Wow. The Electronic Makeup Artist filter for FCP is so worth it if you have a project that will pay for it.http://bit.ly/78Bujs

digitalreb Interesting read – Monitor calibration: Matrox or Spyder? http://tr.im/FjCw

jasondiamond RT @5tu: Final Cut to After Effects conversion script: http://www.popcornisland.com/after-effects/final-cut-2-after-effects/

comebackshane @artgug The LAFCPUG events are all available online athttp://opentvnetwork.com/channel/contents/7 $.99

5tu Better faster cheaper CF cards for your 5D, 7D video shooting: http://bit.ly/3fblv9

markspen This is in Photoshop CS5 coming some time next year: http://cs5.org/?p=147

I recently wrote a piece over at the Editblog on PVC about using the show duplicate frames function in Final Cut Pro. It’s particularly useful if you work with Canon 5D and 7D footage since FCP won’t track the dupe frames with that media as it’s missing a reel name. That’s discussed in the post as well.