The Editblog

As I write this it’s Tuesday night. Time is running out for two separate but equally cool things happening in our video production and post world. One is an educational bundle and one is an event. Both have only a few days left before they are gone!

The Tenth Annual San Francisco FCPUG SuperMeet is this coming Friday, January 28. Tickets are on sale now for $15 with $20 tickets at the door. As always there’s quite an agenda for this SuperMeet including a number of actual Final Cut Studio presentations! One of those is a presentation by the makers of the hilarious I The ProRes Maker music video. And there will be presentations on 3D and Smoke on Mac among others. Of course the world famous raffle is taking place  once again with over $47,000 in prizes. One of those prizes is an AJA Ki Pro Mini so if it’s actually shipping by then the winner may be one of the first owners!

All the information you might need to know about attending the the Tenth Annual San Francisco FCPUG SuperMeet is available at the SuperMeet webpage. Looks like it’s going to be a fun show.

The other item available this week only is a superbundle that FilmmakingWebinars.com has put together with all five DSLR filmmaking webinars they’ve produced thus far. This is $50 for five webinars and includes the  5 on-demand webinars, bonus material, podcast interviews as well as project and media files for trying out what was learned.

The 5 topics include the Production Reality Check, Post Workflows (which was my particular webinar), Color Grading Workflows, Audio Techniques Production and Post and DSLR Stabilizing Techniques.

This is a one-of-a-kind bundle so if you’re new to DSLR filmmaking the price of $50 really can’t be beat for the sheer volume of material you’ll get for that price. But hurry as this sale is only good through 1-29-2011.

Seen on a telephone pole in Venice, California.

Has it really gotten that bad that we’ve resorted to looking for work by stapling flyers to telephone poles?

TomCruise.com had a recent article about editing and the Editblog on PVC got a mention!

Studio Daily has posted my DaVinci Resolve for Mac review. It’s from an Apple Color user’s pov.

If you’re an Avid user then read this post about QuickTime workflow for proper brightness levels.

And here’s a must read piece if you’re syncing dailies in Avid Media Composer.

Yet another great article from Oliver Peters about demystifying color grading.

If you’re wondering about RED’s HDRx then this post explains a lot.

Speaking of color grading Little Frog in High Def looks at Colorista II.

ProLost is trying to help you determine The Shot You Can Make.

What is HD? What is HD indeed.

Need help finding magic hour?

Here’s a nice post about the very cool (though expensive) Cinedeck Extreme.

So are you worried that Apple will abandon Pro Video?

This is a great After Effects tutorial roundup.

Can you really stabilize motion without zooming?

You can get AirPlay to an old Apple TV with this app. And it works as I tried it.

And another USB 3.0 for Mac review.

Links from Twitter:

melrosematt Correct Color Correction? A Great Tech Blog By MVP’s Gary Carter http://bit.ly/gVVrHX

careyd How to re-constitute an FCP project when all you have is the h.264 SD card data: http://bit.ly/e0wJ9S

ebertchicago The Best Documentaries of 2010. My new blog entry, just posted. http://j.mp/f80N08

mjeppsen A handy flowchart to help you decide if you should do a job for free: http://bit.ly/fiPD6x

Lifehacker Sick of DRM on your iTunes video purchases and rentals? Here’s how to remove it: http://lifehacker.com/5731842

FCPDaily Luca Visual FX announces Film FX 2.0 — Awesome grunge & light clip based transitions for FCP, AVID, Premiere, etc!! http://bit.ly/e6jA64

synapticlight Not All 720p Is Created Equally : http://normanpogson.blogspot.com/2011/01/not-all-720p-is-created-equally.html

beerad 210% After Effects: Everything, including the music was made exclusively in After Effects. http://vimeo.com/17092568

artguillotine Help us get our new sister site trimbin.com up and running check it out: http://www.trimbin.com

KarlSoule Adobe Trial Users: Please be aware of some of the trial limitations: http://tinyurl.com/2f2evnn

markspen Ten Reasons to Attend NAB 2011 http://filmmakingcentral.com/fmc2/2011/01/03/blogs/ten-reasons-to-attend-nab-2011/

MrKelly2u Hmm. Cool site for finding flights – it’s almost fun to use! Hipmunk: http://bit.ly/d1X4rv

mikeseymour Detroit in ruins gu.com/p/2m5bv/tw via @guardian

danielkutz David Fincher’s Explains the Henley Royal Regatta Tilt-shift Scene from ‘The Social Network’ | /Film http://bit.ly/hHPpny

hljarboe Kickstarter – “The Bunker Letters” – A Film Of Political Frustration: http://kck.st/fqhhlD

digitalreb This article illustrates the differences between various color spaces and what purposes they are suitable for: http://bit.ly/fpRus3

smalltreecomm The return of ‘rabbit ears’ on televisions across the country? Perhaps says @BE_magazine – http://tiny.cc/xywhr

And if you’re an editor who hasn’t seen this ProRes rap then you should watch it now:

It’s January 1, 2011! Happy new year to all. If you don’t currently have a backup plan then why not make a regular onsite and offsite backup plan one of your New Year’s Resolutions!