The Editblog

Late last year I edited a multi-camera concert for country artist Gary Allan. It was shot at the House of Blues in Chicago on Canon 5Ds. The 5Ds gave us some really great images that’s kind of unusual in a live show. It will premiere on Saturday March 6 at 9:00 PM central on Great American Country so set your DVRs. I’ll be writing a more detailed article about the show over at the Editblog on PVC. In the meantime, enjoy this little sneak preview:

I recently wrote some ideas about the upcoming Apple iPad in post production.

And how might screenwriters use the iPad?

Here’s some fantastic links if you’re getting started with After Effects.

Here’s some nice advice about not using Save As… while working in FCP.

The February 5, 2010 FCPUG SuperMeet is now available to watch via streaming.

Western Digital’s My Book hard drives suck.

Even USA Today is getting in on the DSLR video craze.

Firewire 800 vs. eSATA. Always a good shootout.

Yep, it’s Flash vs HTML 5 for video on the web.

Larry Jordan has 10 tips for faster editing in FCP. Some are very basic but if you’re new then …

You’ve probably already seen this open letter to James Cameron about fairness for VFX artists.

Its the Data Wrangler, data wrangling “robot” to help your DIT.

Do you need to smooth out your subject’s skin in Final Cut Pro?

And here’s yet another new blog about Final Cut Pro and related stuff.

Norman Hollyn returns with hit first blog post in a while. He’s been working on a book.

Here’s the top 5 mocha workflow tips.

More on the flat picture styles with the Canon cameras.

Here’s the Avid RED workflow using their Metafuze application.

If you’re interesting in network rendering with Avid Metafuze check this out.

There may be a FCP to Soundtrack bug as well as a workaround.

SimpleMovieX is a lightweight video editor for Mac users.

If you want to make the Mac Finder better then this might help.

If you need a podcast episode on film editing, here’s one.

This is a great post about finding that magic shot in a multicam show.

This is a good read if you are a new release dependent Netflix user.

Links from Twitter:

KarlSoule Post Magazine interviews some of the Adobe video product managers: http://tinyurl.com/yd9cpvu

BourkePR Imagineer’s mocha: Behind the Scenes of Scorsese’s Shutter Island http://bit.ly/bMaaRB

HDRphotography HDR tutorial – Open multiple windows in photoshop to view the entire dynamic range of your #HDRimage. http://hdriblog.com/hdr-tutorial/

twistedpoly New Cinebench 11.5 is avaliable for download :http://skrci.me/

cameron_smith breakdowns from Avatar on Weta Digital’s site… http://www.wetafx.co.nz/features/avatar/

DylanReeve New Blog Post – Editor’s Swiss Army Knife – essential tools on a USB stick. http://bit.ly/bs70zk

rhedpixel Five sites for great free fonts – http://bit.ly/b7Mijh

shepherdfx Top 12 Sites To Watch Videos That Are Better Than YouTube http://su.pr/1ahzeB

glenbailey 20 Real-World uses for Google Wave. Very interesting article. http://bit.ly/9Z1Kau

brucesharpe What you need to know to make beautiful, inexpensive movies: an excellent DSLR cinematography guide.http://is.gd/7LJ94

thomasberglund Show (and hide) hidden files in Open/Save dialogs in Snow Leopard: http://bit.ly/4mt1D

avidscreencast: New Episode: Red Workflow IV – Avid to Color, quick and painless.http://avidscreencast.com/asc15

wingrove Graeme’s reply to the ASC ‘Assessment’ article in american cinematographer Feb issue http://bit.ly/bGk1W1

officialavatar The Complete AVATAR Script Onlinehttp://bit.ly/5jGUlT

And a few others.

Here’s some of the 2010 Oscar nominations for animated short film.

Here’s a great time waster: a round up of Best Photos of 2009 blog posts.

This toy car stop-motion film is great fun and yes, the world needs a Succeed Blog.

I had the tv on Letterman the other night and he was pimping the premiere of the new Survivor series. He apparently got the date wrong as I heard a really bad audio dub go by in the background. I rewound and yep, it was bad. If you’ve ever been to a Letterman taping you know they like to do the show live to tape and not go back and edit if at all possible. This was obviously the quickest fix but man is it bad. Just listen for the word “eleventh.”

A package arrived yesterday that contained a shiny, new MC Color control surface from Euphonix. We have the unit under our roof for a month of testing. This surface has been eagerly anticipated by Apple Color-using community for quite a while. First glance right out of the box feels like a very solid unit. We’ll see how it performs both from a hardware and software POV as we test it out in the coming month. Stay tuned to the Editblog on PVC for first impressions and a full review.

Here’s a funny little video about a producer and editor searching for the perfect sound effect. It made the Twitter rounds today. It’s cute …. and true:

The 2010 Oscar nominations have been announced. The show is March 7.

The 2nd ever of our monthly reminder to backup you system. Read the PVC post if you need some backup utility suggestions. Otherwise subscribe to the RSS feed here for the reminder.