The Editblog

If you need a gift idea for an editor then this post might help but you better order today.

So the government is going to turn down loud audio levels on your tv.

The Foundry released the Storm beta and you can read about it here and here and then download it for yourself.

If  you’ve got PC access try the free LightWorks beta. Or read about others doing it.

fxguide has the scoop on the Assimilate / Autodesk lawsuit which is now settled.

And they also have a great side-by-side comparison of the new Sony F3 and a Canon 5D.

There are FCP keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro CS5.

FYI: The great Avid blog Splice Here is becoming Splice Now.

What might be some post trends for 2011?

It’s absolutely true that clients don’t understand video container formats.

If you have a Final Cut Pro support application idea then enter this contest.

These are 10 pretty good tips for making post a lot easier though some of them are specific to the author’s way of working and your mileage may vary.

Alexis Van Hurkman has tons of good content this month including How to Talk to A Colorist, the very handy Rippling Grades Using Groups in Resolve and his newly released Color Correction Handbook.

And speaking of that the Tao of Color has an interview / podcast of an in-depth discussion with Hurkman.

Here’s the follow up to the great Grading the Graders series.

Here’s a big old holiday gift guide for filmmakers.

So this Japanese Sour video that showcases HTML5 is pretty cool. Gotta watch it in the right browser though.

Appropriate for the holiday season: The 12 Hours of Editing.

The Big Picture has the best photos of 2010 as well as National Geographic’s most amazing photos of 2010.

Links from Twitter:

LazyManPro Some amazing aerial footage of NYC done with an RC plane and looks to be GoPro. http://bit.ly/fAJ0mj

artguillotine Top edited Sequences according to Joy of Film Editing Blog http://bit.ly/hNV3Lu

nicholaspatten 40 Examples of Creative and Clever Billboard Designs. http://bit.ly/eJL6zL

lafcpug 10 MORE Things wish I knew the first time I opened FCP by Clay Asbury http://bit.ly/eJ75hu

kev_mon Want to try out Premiere Pro? Then you’ll definitely need this quickstart guide for Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid users http://bit.ly/eN8VGA

walterbiscardi Run #Apple #Color without a proper video card with any graphics card? This person says so. http://tinyurl.com/2awc3go I’m not convinced.

AdobePremiere “Round-Tripping with Avid Media Composer”, from _Premiere Pro CS5 for Avid Editors_: http://bit.ly/fIPvDA

schnittman Chart of Audio Settings for various Media Composer 5 workflows. http://bit.ly/hV06C6

mikejonestv What is Rhythm in film editing? Video interview with distinguished editor Karen Pearlman dissecting this slippery idea. http://bit.ly/gyKOhn

NewMediaDude 100 Great Resources for Cinematographers, Camera Assistants, and Film Professionals – http://bit.ly/cr95sd

wildgrounds 17 min cut from Kubrick’s 2001 have been found http://ow.ly/3oTNa

pjoy New Blog post: HDSLR Encoding wars. Comparing FCP to PP when it comes to encode quality. http://bit.ly/eo9w37

LizHargreaves new post – I just set up iChat for Facebook, here’s how easy it is: http://bit.ly/fFOA8C

latenitefilms Interesting Read >> The results from John Brawley’s 6 camera low light shoot out. F3, RED, Alexa, 16mm, 35mm. http://ltnt.tv/g4bohV

silveradosys Chris from Tangent Devices discusses vWave-Lite for iPad http://bit.ly/c7PBNJ

These are some really cool photos of Niagara Falls … when it ran dry.

Happy holidays!

If you missed Thursday’s Useful Applications for Digital Filmmakers webinar it’s now available for download as an On Demand webinar. For $25 you get the full 90 minute, screen captured webinar, a podcast about the topic, an extra 15 minute (or so) video presentation with several tools we didn’t discuss during the webinar. There’s also a PDF included with links to all the Mac, iPhone and iPad apps we discussed during the webinar as well as a few we didn’t get to as we ran out of time.

Here’s the actual webinar description:

This webinar will be a fast, fun walk-through and discussion of handy, useful Macintosh applications that would be at home in any digital filmmaker’s toolbox. The software discussed will run the gamut from free to paid, a few dollars up to a few hundred. While all stages of filmmaking will be discussed with useful tools for pre-production, production and post-production, a strong emphasis will be placed on post production.

This was really a fun webinar to present as it wasn’t the usual task or workflow oriented program but rather a fun, fast walkthrough of a lot of tools that I know I couldn’t live without. I hope it might help in spending some money!

Here’s a monthly reminder so if you haven’t backed up in a while, get to it.