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If you want to get some good training for a great price then check out New Media Webinars as they are currently having a 2 for 1 sale on their on-demand webinars. You have to act fast as the sale ends at the end of the week, July 31. There’s no special link on the website so this is how you get the deal (from the New Media Webinars newsletter):

Purchase any of our on-demand webinars between 7/26/2010 and 7/31/2010 and get one for free! Yes! That means you are getting 2 on-demand webinars for only $25. But hurry, because this sale ends on 7/31/2010. All purchases must be dated between 7/26/2010 and 7/31/2010. You will automatically receive an email after your purchase with instructions on how to get your 2nd on-demand webinar for free.

This is the perfect opportunity to promote the DSLR Filmmaking Post Workflows webinar that I recently conducted for New Media Webinars:

The reason the 2 for 1 sale is a perfect deal? You can get both the DSLR Filmmaking Post Workflows and the DSLR Filmmaking Production Reality Check conducted by Peter Cote for one $25 purchase. That’s a lot of DSLR info for very little money. If you don’t know Peter’s work then check out his DSLR Show website or see the amazing work he did on the Guy Walks Across America video.

Bookmark the Tao of Color Grading if you’re interesting in that sort of thing.

Automatic Duck has released a new version of Pro Import AE and I wrote a review of it.

The July fxphd term is out and about.

And a bit more discussion “about that DaVinci Thing…”

Here’s lots if great info about time-stretching and remapping.

So you can hack Premiere Pro to work with more nVidia cards.

And a number of Adobe help documents have been updated as well.

And for some reason YouTube is now working with 4K material.

And speaking of YouTube, have you seen their YouTube Video Editor.

Damn the interlaced footage but at least aetuts tries to demystify it.

Unshake tries to make blurry photos a bit less that’a way.

If you follow RED you might be interested in Jannard’s Questions… answer thread.

And here’s a good RedUser discussion of Media Composer 5 and RED Rocket.

Everyone can use 55 free After Effects plug-ins.

You gotta love Photoshop CS5’s new refine edge.

You can try and fake FCP into an Avid-like 4-up display for slip editing if you want.

Have you heard of the Norrkross Movie video editing application? Me neither.

Here’s a good piece on RED in Media Composer 5 to Avid DS.

And here’s a good presentation about things you can or can’t fix in post.

Post Magazine has a review of the Matrox MXO2 Mini.

Pay with a Tweet and get this great Archiving for Indies article.

The short film is dead?

Here’s some good commentary for beginning filmmakers to read.

Ars Technica reviews Lightroom 3 so you know it’s a good review.

Links from Twitter:

AdobePremiere **AVCHD EDITORS** I’m still getting a fair amount questions on AVCHD editing so I thought I’d post a quick… http://fb.me/Chd7Ydva

artguillotine Lev Kuleshov’s book is available for FREE!!! A must for film editors: http://bit.ly/bVZoil #filmediting

nicholaspatten 7 Personality Types of Clients Today.http://bit.ly/c7NY8W

NewTeeVee Vimeo Adds Creative Commons Licensinghttp://dlvr.it/2Zq49

flippantfilms I got my Iphone 4 two weeks ago and have been looking for some great filmmaker apps for it. Check out this list http://bit.ly/9nTHaW

latenitefilms Interesting Read >> Why Invest In a Movie?http://bit.ly/whyinvest

schnittman Adobe integrates tutorials inside CS5 with The Knowledge Panel. http://bit.ly/9Zgwx0

silveradosys [Working for free] Next time someone wants something from YOU free just to give credit on your REEL, make them watch: http://bit.ly/chRf2k

digitalreb Interesting link – The Myths of Displays and Monitors: http://is.gd/chJdP

sorensonmedia Sorenson 360 Pay-As-You-Go pricing to fit your needs: http://bit.ly/9ILBWS

str8photography Amazing Light Paintings or Long Exposurehttp://ow.ly/1LnrL

BrianJKim 100 free and useful Mac Appshttp://bit.ly/cOMWue

nicholaspatten Smoking Hot Mac Interface Design: 30 Stunning Apps. http://bit.ly/dsVmPw

rhedpixel Adobe DSLR Class Archive Onlinehttp://bit.ly/9hMlnf From my blog – http://bit.ly/c9J55y

AvidTechnology everything students and educators need to know about Avid MediaComposer for academic institutions on Avid.com: http://bit.ly/dlFhiB

brucesharpe Cheat Sheet Tip: Sync Multiple Camerashttp://is.gd/dutCG

post_magazine See Jonathan Moser’s Q&A with Avid COO Kirk Arnold about present & future status of the company on Post Magazine’s site http://bit.ly/dkigs3

justinb72 #FCP #AVID and a bunch more shortcut guides. Very cool: http://bit.ly/aAgg6M

And some totally fun off-topic links:

You can make your own voicemail message from the Old Spice Guy and look at some Awkward Stock Photos.

If you’re in and around Boston this Friday then you may want to make some time for the First Ever, First Annual Boston SuperMeet. As is the case with all SuperMeets there’s a great lineup for the even and lots of prizes for the world famous raffle.

A few of standouts IMHO: Mitch Jacobson will be discussing mulitcamera madness and discussing his new multicam book (which I had the pleasure of contributing to if only a bit), Avid will be  back onstage at a SuperMeet with a discussion with Erin Gallagher, editor on Discovery’s “Build It Bigger” show and, of course, you can’t have an event like this today without discussing DSLRs and DP Rodney Charters will be doing just that as well as talking about his impressive body of work.

As for the raffle: An AJA KiPro, two DaVinci Resolve for Mac licenses, an nVidia Quadro FX 4800 graphic card for Mac, hard drives, lighting and camera gear, software plug ins and the full spectrum of software from Avid, Apple and Adobe.

The doors to the event open at 4:30, Friday June 25 at the Back Bay Events Center, John Hancock Hall. Tickets are usually $10 in advance but you can get a ticket for free with our Discount Code. Here’s how:

1. Go to: http://supermeetbos10.eventbrite.com/

2. Click on the ENTER DISCOUNT CODE link.

3. Enter discount code: editblogvip

4. Fill out registration with legitimate email and address for EACH name.

Enjoy the Boston SuperMeet this coming Friday, it looks like another good show.

Avid Media Compsoer 5.0 has shipped and there’s articles all over the ‘net about it:

I took a tour around some of the interface changes while Kevin P McAuliffe wrote a review over at PVC. Share Ross looks at it from A Frog’s Eye View. Dylan Reeve had one of the first reviews on the ‘net. Editor Job ter Burg looks at some of the smaller things in v5. Steve Cohen discusses it too. A very long and detailed article about the path to Media Composer can be read here. And there’s a whole bunch of training videos up on Avid’s website so grab the free, full-featured 30 day demo and check it out.

Norman Hollyn has taken the Media Composer 5 discussion a step further than a simple review. Oliver Peters has done the same thing and they are both great reads.

Newmediawebinars.com is having two DSLR webinars: DSLR Filmmaking Production Reality Check on June 17 and DSLR Filmmaking Post Workflows on June 22. The Post webinar will be hosted by me.

June 25 is a big Final Cut Pro User Group Network SuperMeet in Boston. That’s not far away so grab your tickets!

Here’s a nice techy discussion on Drop Frame Timecode and come conversion code if you’re so inclined.

This is a great article on managing audio layers in FCP.

CineTechnica has listed a few HDSLR rig alternatives.

Check out this article on Dirty Editing and may your timeline never be so sloppy again.

So the iPhone’s not the only cell phone that can edit video …. and speaking of Editing from Airplanes and iPhones.

Do you hate it when you click over to Compressor and all the windows don’t jump back to the front?

Magic Bullet Grinder was release for converting your H264 DSLR footage and several of us wrote pieces about it around the web.

If you’re familiar with PluralEyes then you might be interested in the DualEyes beta that is a standalone version. It’s PC only right now.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 has shipped and The Lightrooom Lab has a number of articles about the new features, buying and upgrading.

What all can HTML5 do? Apple has some examples.

ReelPost is a new website for posting your reel and networking with other editors … maybe find an editor or find a job?

Wanna see a YouTube video that was compressed over and over, like 1000 times?

You should check out the great Get Faster in Final Cut Pro series that the You Down With FCP blog is doing.

This is a nice reduser.net post about one person’s reasons that 1080p isn’t enough.

You never know when you might need some handwritten fonts. Here’s 63.

This is indeed a big collection of Avid information and tutorials (it’s a big pdf btw). I hope it will be updated soon for version 5.0.

Want some iPad droplets for Compressor?

Links from Twitter:

Rydirector The 23 weirdest movies! Now we’re talking!http://ow.ly/1Xrrj

fcpworld Avid Frame of Reference Chart. Very handy. Hey, thanks Avid! http://bit.ly/9tKgpT

michaschmidt HD to SD DVD – a “secret” Workflow « …a FinalCutPro user’s Blog http://tumblr.com/xeqb6i8ah

artguillotine Check out this article on Cutting a scene based on emotions: http://bit.ly/1jIkzv

rhedpixel If you missed my free e-seminar on Adobe CS5 workflow for DSLR video… you can watch it here for free:…http://bit.ly/9phMI4

Lifehacker The Hassle-Free Guide to Ripping Your Blu-Ray Collection http://lifehacker.com/5559007

andybeach RT @a_saliga: Embed Vimeo videos. Play on iPad. Repeat.  http://bit.ly/b8oqH2

michaschmidt HD to SD DVD – a “secret” Workflow « …a FinalCutPro user’s Blog http://tumblr.com/xeqb6i8ah

yohance_brown workarounds for two issues with ProRes colors in After Effects #CS5: http://bit.ly/ax6BBDhttp://bit.ly/9VnNDK

IRGnews Time-lapse Video of Los Angeles Without Any Cars.http://bit.ly/bl4qbB

Filmbot new RED color science, and how to make it all work with After Effects CS5 and Premiere Pro CS5http://bit.ly/bfqaUW

PeterWiggins Photoshop CS5 – Puppet Warp turns a Frown into a Smile (ok a slightly odd one)http://tinyurl.com/34pesux

videoguys Matrox MXO2 family and Adobe CS5 support: Over the past few days there has been some confusion … http://bit.ly/aFfOLj

thedvshow 10 Final Cut Pro Features Express Will Never Have – Until Now http://bit.ly/af6BKK

shepherdfx Photos from the Deepwater Horizon sitehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/sets/72157624175670303/

If you didn’t know that Nashville experienced Biblical flooding the first weekend of May then (and you may not know) … well, we did. And cleanup is well underway.

So there’s been this big debate recently about H.264 licensing that comes with your video camera.

Fini has a great list of color correction edumacation resources.

And A.C.E. member has written about the end of Final Cut (for him).

What if you had to cut 5 one-hour episodes in a week?

The Foundry is releasing a new product called Storm.

And Oprah is starting a documentary club that might be a game-changer?

Been wondering about moving from Avid to FCP to get to Color?

If you want to know a bunch of Avid console commands then look here but be very careful with them.

Want to know how to compress video for the iPad?

You apparently can make an Edit Change list in Final Cut Pro.

Here’s a great article on learning …. and why we resist it.

Don’t forget about Post Haste to help organize your editing assets.

Ahhhh the L-cut.

And ahhh so color grading is done on a proper monitor! I’m amazed that some don’t know this.

Jon Chappell talks about aperture changes in Compressor 3.5.

So some of the Photoshop CS5 tricks have been available in GIMP.

Here’s a couple of CS5 videos: Dynamic Link and Adobe Media Encoder.

And there’s a handy After Effects rendering droplet.

Filmcontracts.net has about every film contract you can think of.

This is a nice roundup of several Avid Media Composer 5.0 videos.

If you’re wondering about the Canon 7D vs. T2i video mode controls then check out this link.

And speaking of MC 5.0, check out Shane Ross talking about the announcement.

Seems there’s a free iPad film slate out there.

If you’re presenting with an iPad and Keynote then this is worth a read.

Really? A toe mouse/flip flop mouse? I must have one.

Engadget has a rechargeable battery shootout.

Here’s a Nikon D90 shot short film that was sent to me and one of the better looking D90 pieces I’ve seen.

And then there’s 100 useful and free Mac apps.

And any stuff from Dr. Strangelove is worth looking at right?

Links from Twitter:

philiphodgetts: Unbundling channels to programs or apps.http://bit.ly/9mLUxV Inveitable consequnce of unbundling trend of the Internet

hughmacd: Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline :http://is.gd/bSQF4 (is.bd would be better for that link. is certainly not gd.)

WBCareers: Wondering what a Preditor is? It’s a combo of producer & editor. http://bit.ly/9ef078

VisionWrangler: Why DVXUser & REDUser can seem like Sheltered Workshops at times: http://bit.ly/cx0hMO Via @EOSHD

ThadNurski: Uh oh. If you downloaded The Hurt Locker illegally, you might be in trouble. http://bit.ly/cgFukL

ditzkoff: All-star grp of documentary filmmakers sends open letter supporting Crude director Joe Berlinger in case vs Chevron - http://nyti.ms/aEVAHp

NewMediaDude: Are more cores better for post-production? http://bit.ly/aqOMro

Quantel: More info about the new V5 software release, which is proving very popular…http://tinyurl.com/385h8zl

mjeppsen: Designing an app for the iPad? You MUST read this usability study. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ipad.html

cinemaminima: The herculean struggle to get Terrence Malick’s THE THIN RED LINE to the screen http://j.mp/9YaSwu

tieguy: terrific visualization of facebook’s default privacy settings: http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

FCPDaily: Using the browser’s “Find” function to increase organization and efficiency http://tinyurl.com/2c9nnha

saracollaton: Blog post: Why I left MobileMe and switched to Google Sync & @SpanningSync http://bit.ly/bFt8Ok

schnittman: Cool. Avid introduces a series of webinars, including mixer of LOST and a tour of Molinaire.http://bit.ly/9LPdEd

avidtips: Fairly solid article calling Steve Job’s recent open letter about Flash hypocritical http://bit.ly/blgxCm

andybeach: Announcing the first free software Blu-ray encoder http://bit.ly/97T2dx

chrisfenwick: Canon 5DMK2, 7D & T2i Timecode, how to LOG it in the field, a great trick for logging timecode during a shoot. http://bit.ly/9foRxb

mediastudio: How to Calibrate Color for the Webhttp://bit.ly/c8FzmH

poetzero: New post: Hollywood’s Rule of 28 (http://bit.ly/91Yykd)

bcfilmmaker: Do you know what is expected of a film/TV director in pre-production? http://su.pr/2sOKML

And finally:

trustthedust: I LOVE this. Haters gonna hate. http://bit.ly/bKJ11O

As many of you may know, we here in Nashville experienced what can best be described as Biblical flooding over the weekend, getting more rain in a 48 hour period than has ever been recorded here. Needless to say much of the town is underwater, including whole communities like Bellevue and Franklin. And then there’s the Nashville landmarks that have suffered too. The Grand Ole Opry, Titans Stadium, the downtown riverfront, our arena (and more) all flooded.

This little video below is making the rounds now and it’s a much different perspective on a flooding disaster than the news coverage. I was going to say it’s different from what you’ll usually see but with the prevalence of Canon DSLRs these days you’ll pretty much see this type of video after any natural disaster. This one showed up and took my mind off the classroom floating down the interstate, Mill Creek, the Opryland Hotel, the big mall, the Nashville weather penis,  … so thanks to its creator.

An unbelievably cool old school slow motion film of the engines of a Saturn V rocket launch. The commentary really makes this entertaining for the nearly 9 minutes of video which only took 30 seconds of real time.

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

Very clever. Very cool.

Here’s a great video making the rounds on Twitter this morning. It’s some camera slate fun from the set of Inglourious Basterds. Apparently it’s on the DVD. Check it out before it gets taken down and probably NSFW.

Walker over at the I’m Not Bruce blog has posted a screenshot that someone sent him of a strange symbol in a Final Cut Pro timeline that appears next to a thumbnail image. It looks somewhat like this: ?

I’ve never seen it before and no one has commented on his site thus far about what it might be either. Have you? If so then please comment below or better yet click over the the original post and comment there. Or maybe it’s a hoax. Here’s the image: