The Editblog

So they say prolonged sitting may be as dangerous as smoking!

Dropbox is wonderful but some etiquette when using it with others would be nice.

Part 1 of 3 on choosing the right shared storage solution. I am following this one with great interest.

More about RED EPIC!

Here’s part 1 of Post Soup, (it’s about post-supervising) which looks to be a great series.

We might need to know how to create a bootable Mac OS Lion disk once it ships via Mac app store download.

If you need edumacation about HD color model and sub-sampling then this is the article for you.

Editmote is an iPhone control app for your NLE. I’m  looking forward to see where this one goes.

AETUS helps out with creating dynamic, hand-drawn text.

Here’s some help with keeping that aspect ratio when scaling down your footage.

Splice Now has a tip on displaying source track names in the Avid timeline.

Why are FCP thumbnails showing media offline when media is available?

Do you need to reinvent yourself?

This tutorial about superimposing a car onto another image is a great photoshop tutorial.

First we get some deep analyzation of the FCPX screenshots that might show Motion integration then we got some possibly leaked Motion 5 screenshots. Just get it here already.

Can You Customize the Tangent Wave for DaVinci Resolve? Or just go with the cheapest control surface ever.

If you’re curious about RED EPIC then read about others playing with EPIC frames.

If you’re a Roger Waters / The Wall fan then this piece on the current tour animations might be of interest.

This is a great idea: still photos brought to life with a little bit or motion.

Do you need to know how to whistle real loud?

You really should look at this picture of Bonnaroo from the air.

Link from Twitter:

silveradosys [HDTV] …what are the specs that really matter? http://bit.ly/kTZVQK #media

synapticlight RT @Raindance: 6 ways film directors screw editors: http://bit.ly/mnwJ1T

FilmBudget Cable companies start charging heavy streaming video users. http://fb.me/wynmHHbd

blatherskyte The best article I’ve read so far on why cable tv doesn’t go a la carte: http://j.mp/jmKSx8

onerivermedia Using #multicam #HDSLR and #timecode together on set. http://bit.ly/myvakE

AdobeAE using Warp Stabilizer to remove objects and perform a content-aware fill in After Effects CS5.5:… http://fb.me/JnaeTm9W

digitalreb Interesting undocumented feature in Avid’s PhraseFind: movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Avid-L2/…

AdobePremiere CUDA processing improvements in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5: http://bit.ly/iWDpC5 details: http://adobe.ly/gE0JlS http://fb.me/12BT4IKCV

freshdv RT @johnaugust: Screenwriters: We made an app for the iPad. It lets you read Final Draft files and looks great. http://fdxreader.com

finalcutters Got noisy footage? 21 noise reduction plug-ins for Final Cut Pro http://bit.ly/fcnoisered

jamiecobbeditor So ridiculous & yet I want one RT @joetombarello: Stay In Style & Keep Warm Inside The Edit Bay ~> http://bit.ly/k5qq0d

IncMagazine Here’s how great logos have evolved over the ages. http://ow.ly/4mUbW

hblodget America is DEMOLISHING rest of world in military expenditures and % of families that have been homeless http://read.bi/mwEqO1

josephnasto Dunno how old this link is, but this “scale of the universe” blows my mind: http://bit.ly/gllHbz

Tags: linkage, links

It’s hard to believe that the NAB SuperMeet was some two months ago. That’s two months that we’ve all had to speculate and rumormonger about Final Cut Pro X! A week from this Thursday, on June 23, the London version of the SuperMeet will happen. From the looks of the agenda there’s a few topics that were cut from the NAB SuperMeet (when Apple took over the agenda) that are going to be presented on London. Alexis Van Hurkman will demo DaVinci Resolve 8 and there will be a presentation on Demystifying Smoke on Mac OS X with Joe Billington. There’s quite a few other presentations scheduled as well (including FCP guru Larry Jordan talking about something) plus the world famous raffle. There’s an iPad listed in the raffle prizes so that’ll be a nice non-production/post win for someone. Grab your tickets now if you’re going to be in London on June 23 … I’d love to be there too if that wasn’t my birthday.

Tags: SuperMeet

Summer is almost here. Don’t forget about backing up before vacation.

Tags: Backup, Backup Day

Many think post-production is an afterthought but it is not.

NVIDIA’s Quadro 4000 is their newest CUDA graphics card for the Mac.

A Camera Does Not a Filmmaker Make. If you haven’t read this essay do so now.

This is a good report on RED EPIC and HDRx. And speaking of EPIC here’s a very nice piece about working on the RED NAB film.

A LFHD report on inexpensive archiving from the NAB 2011 show.

Here’s a good article on fixing offset audio levels.

This can help you track down potential problem clips in an Avid timeline.

Nice piece here about documentaries and distribution.

Colorgrader Network is a grading resource I hadn’t heard about.

Controlling FCP from the iPad can be possible.

Digital Intermediates are important in post.

There’s this new Technicolor CineStyle image profile for Canon DSLRs.

Before you jump into it try and understand LUTs.

There’s been a lot of tests of the Technicolor CineStyle profile  and this is a good one.

Here are 15 utilities for managing FCP preferences.

How could documentary cinema change for the better?

This REDuser post is a great after NAB read about the current state of RED.

Archiving is important, even for indies (I may have linked to this before).

One of the regulators who ok’d the NBC / Comcast deal has now joined Comcast as a lobbyist. Sad.

Remember Film Threat magazine? They are crowdfunding.

Links from Twitter:

bnealeditor Thousands of free audio books from the public domain! How cool is this? http://librivox.org/

robgwilson How to Jump Ship from GoDaddy to a Better Web Host and Registrar http://j.mp/ifWdHL

CreativeCOW iPad Users: Creative COW Magazine app now available at iTunes Store http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/1/858363

WEVAnews Adobe’s first Photoshop Touch Apps for iPad are out, shown in this clip http://bit.ly/gBpgx0 with news release: http://bit.ly/jeXFvM

ImagineerSys An overview of the mocha Pro Remove tool! We go through 6 shots where the Remove Module can help create clean plates: vimeo.com/23230113

totalfilm Malick is the master: The Making Of The Tree Of Life http://bit.ly/lCtxUv

BuzzEdition ?GAVE ME CHILLS –>Time lapse video of woman with HIV/AIDS http://bit.ly/fGPnMA

sam_longoria First Review for ‘The Tree of Life’ Brings Comparisons to ’2001? & Spielberg http://bit.ly/kuqRiw

RJWeditor AICE Editing 2011 Finalists: http://bit.ly/imY6rf

post_magazine Post Magazine’s 2011 Storage Solutions supplement is now available online http://bit.ly/eQAgGz

NVIDIAQuadro Yes, NVIDIA GPUs and technology really are everywhere: http://bit.ly/kMoZvm

kev_mon Are you a video editor that has not learned After Effects yet? No worries, go here: http://adobe.ly/hL38yj

gary_hustwit Stunning images of Chicago by a young photojournalist named Stanley Kubrick in 1949: http://j.mp/ii22Uv (via @brainpicker)

AdobePremiere Modifying timecode in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5: http://adobe.ly/gnLy92 more: http://adobe.ly/etNdmv http://fb.me/X32mbvMe

shepherdfx Compilation of articles and videos about Final Cut Pro X: http://goo.gl/DOYjY

blatherskyte Passing storm sounds awoke & reminded me to read “How to steal like an artist (and 9 other things nobody told me)” http://bit.ly/e6obg3

andrewpprice Meet the Photoshop master – BaoJun Yuan: http://bit.ly/kHyZ5a And he doesn’t charge a cent.

And finally:

hblodget America is DEMOLISHING rest of world in military expenditures and % of families that have been homeless http://read.bi/mwEqO1

Tags: linkage, links

I think the recent storms in the south are a reminder off-site backup can be just as important these days as a local backup. I’ve been happy with CrashPlan and have successfully restored files from there. There are other options as well. (Sorry this reminder is a day after the usual first of the month)

It was a big NAB show last week with lots of people attending and a lot of products announced. This is a short linkage edition but with the NAB show there’s a lot of to kill time with. Here are some links from around the web.

FreshDV has some of the best coverage around the web. They did a ton of videos on everything from production to post so you can kill a lot of time watching their coverage.

Pro Video Coalition has its own dedicated NAB 2011 page with stories on many different NAB related topics. I posted a few iPhone videos over at the Editblog on PVC.

Of course we all know that Apple gave us a sneak preview of Final Cut Pro X and there’s tons of discussion of what we saw … of course. I posted my own piece about the demoed features as I saw them go by. All the usual suspects have chimed in: Larry Jordan, Walter Biscardi, Philip Hodgetts. Mike Jones says that FCP X is really not so new. I don’t think Digital Rebellion was there but they have comments from a developer pov. Here’s another piece that has what looks to be the best video captured that night.

fxguide has their NAB 2011 Wrap Up.

Digital Production Buzz had coverage every day of the show.

Here’s a report from an After Effects pov.

Studio Daily has a bunch of NAB videos. Post Magazine has their own NAB coverage as well.

Vimeo was at NAB too.

Some not necessarily NAB links from Twitter:

ywwg Yesterday: Baselight for FCP. Today: Baselight for Nuke! http://bit.ly/NAB-info

patInhofer RT @eyeheight: NAB 2011 News! Eyeheight Announces Development of complianceSuite Plug-ins for Media Composer.http://tinyurl.com/67w5r23

ronsussman this IS the future. whatever FCP or Avid is planning on offering now it will be old very soon http://oblong.com/

TapeOnline Video of Sony’s Sendai tape factory post-tsunami - http://bit.ly/hIuWTK

mikeconaty RT @thedvshow: Video Professional vs the “Video Professional” http://bit.ly/gEDLsh

synapticlight Download your free guide to Media Asset Management : http://apps.avid.com/make-most-media/interplay/?cmpid=AV-EM-MTM-9

IRIDAS IRIDAS CEO Lin Kayser talks to Post Magazine about IRIDAS’ NAB product releases: http://bit.ly/hGI6T5

goforjared updated #NABshow coverage here. Check it out! http://bit.ly/91rKQx

Tags: linkage, links, NAB 11

Tattooing at the RED booth

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This remote helicopter flies a RED!

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And that’s a RED MX size and not just an EPIC or dslr size.

Scratch on Mac

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Yep, Scratch will now run on Mac. Here it is booting up.

Thunderbolt Alert! Matrox

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This little Thunderbolt adapter. Ships summer, around $300. Will be bundled with Matrox products as well.