The Editblog

This Japan Quake Map is amazing to watch as it shows the quake and its aftershocks in a way you may not have seen before. Consider donating to the Red Cross if you can. Or Doctors Without Borders for another great cause.

Avid Media Composer 5.5 has shipped. You asked, Avid listened. And Freddy’s big list of Avid links has been updated accordingly.

There’s been a lot of speculation on the next version of Final Cut Pro. I speculated a bit more. And this Cinema5D thread is just insane in its length and discussion on the topic.

Here’s the NAB exhibit interactive floorplan.

Are you going to the NAB SuperMeet? You could win a $30,000 DaVinci Resolve.

The RED EPIC articles and footage are starting to really fly. Check out The Impossible Shot.

These shooting tips from the edit suite are good shooting tips for all shooters.

Even if you don’t know what frankenbiting is you’ve probably done it before.

If you use Media Composer and AMA then you should know how to get out of the yard.

Here’s a great piece on DaVinci Resolve vs. Nucode Film Master.

Did you see all the 28 Days of Quicktips collected into one place?

Did you know you can communicate with Adobe’s pro video and audio teams?

If you don’t use multiple FCP window layouts you really should learn how to do it.

So you CAN install iMovie on a first generation iPad.

Try x264 as an alternative to H.264.

That’s a cute video to promote the Arri Alexa and your studio.

AJA Ki Pro Mini vs. nanoFlash.

Being an editor is hard work. And again but different: Being an editor is hard work.

If you’re wondering about SAN storage system then read this article.

And if you’re wondering about an “inexpensive” display for your post production then this article might help with that.

Another way to wirelessly control FCP with your iPhone.

I like to read about other’s Adobe Lightroom workflow since I use it and I’m not a pro photographer.

You might win an iPod Touch by submitting your idea for destroying one.

Links from Twitter:

GTechbyHitachi A classic #tedtalk to enjoy: How to make work-life balance work! http://ow.ly/4335e

MediaSilo Been wondering how to add your MediaSilo channels to your Apple TV? http://tinyb.it/4D680CB439FCB

freshdv Shutter Speed vs FPS: Here’s a short video tutorial on the topic of Shutter Speed http://bit.ly/dKuBhL

HDnews NVidia Announces CUDA 4.0 http://bit.ly/e1MbSJ

creattica The Freelancer’s Cheat Sheet for Collections http://enva.to/g4KcVz

FCPdotCO How to move projects from Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere using XML http://tinyurl.com/6cg8yds

endlesspicnic Wow, great blog post over at @hurlbutvisuals — the holy grail of 5D Media Management practices! http://bit.ly/hsZLXv

DanMoranColor I got bored after 18 nodes on HD Alexa ProRes 4444 http://plixi.com/p/82300914

artguillotine Sally Menke Audio interview PT. 1 http://bit.ly/ggrYxf PT. 2 http://bit.ly/g3nw7D

finalcutters 189 FREE Final Cut Studio plug-ins and apps #fcp #finalcutpro #editingandpost http://bit.ly/fcfree

artguillotine Want to know how to ingest and edit 7D footage on #avid http://bit.ly/h5t544 check out this video

joetombarello Do You Know Where Your Codecs Are In Your Computer? A Must Read For Video Editors ~> http://adobe.ly/hBm3YI

conigs The 3/11 earthquake as filmed by 15 citizens, viewed simultaneously. http://www.twofourtysixpm.com/

seanbonner Seriously, this first person Tsunami video is one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen. http://ow.ly/4dvh0

ftwo The Big Picture: Earthquake hits Japan http://post.ly/1jiSj

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:

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!

Media Composer 5 upgrade prices going up on October 1, 2010—act now to take advantage of current pricing: http://bit.ly/ahLlBA

Alexis Van Hurkman has a great wrap-up to IBC 2010. He talks talks about loving the nodes in DaVinci Resolve.

I really think that Resolve is kinda like our Alexa.

Warren Eagles wrapped up IBC as well.

And DaVinci Resolve for Mac is shipping btw.

Is Final Cut Pro reaching a tipping point in its lack of updates?

Speaking of FCP updates, Apple did release an update this week.

Is your FCP install this stable?

Shane Ross has been doing some great FCP tutorials lately.

AETUTS has opened a marketplace!

We gotta store all that file based media somewhere, somehow.

This Hackintosh idea could give us all a few more PCI slots.

Bookmark this After Effects CS5 tutorial series for beginners if you need it.

Here’s a talent release form that might come in handy as well as some free digital video e-books.

This is a great how-to for a cool Lexus commercial.

I want a Playstation Move, here’s a review.

I love the show Weed and reading about the edit.

Amidst all the Resolve talks, here’s a nice discussion on grading a movie with Apple Color.

And maybe there will be an iPad Color control app.

Maybe there are some solutions for FCP’s media management issues.

18 Awesome Gadgets For A Video Production Specialist To Have. OK.

Links from Twitter:

thedailyMUBI Spike Lee on the opening of 25th HOUR @ArtoftheTitle http://bit.ly/9Gd3m2

MartinBeek Sold my Canon 7D: explaining why…: http://wp.me/pre7n-9G

leolaporte http://bit.ly/dCLk1E is what Delicious could have been if Yahoo hadn’t neglected it. And it syncs with Delicous. I’m using it full time now.

FCPDaily: Avoid subpixels in #FinalCutPro to keep images looking crisp and clean! http://bit.ly/cBlG4q #FCP

ilovehue With XML import too! RT @deanand: #R3D REDcineX build 320 with R3D trim, new REDlog Film, S3D, and more http://bit.ly/aJWqtS

millimeter_mag H.264 for the Mac: Compressor versus x264 http://ow.ly/2Avkx

nprmusic The Making Of The New Arcade Fire Video http://n.pr/caCtAO

StudioDaily RT @Createasphere: Is Werner Herzog’s new 3-D documentary a huge forward leap or total folly? http://lat.ms/bPhw49

digitalreb Interesting thread – The unbelievable slowness of Compressor encoding: http://bit.ly/cdl56b

digitalreb If you own a 2010 Mac Pro, you need to boot into 32-bit mode to use your Avid dongle: http://bit.ly/bMoRK5

digitalreb Found a strange process running on your system? Here’s a great reference site: http://bit.ly/dysTiv

Lightroom Learn when to use a Filter vs. a Smart Collection in #Lightroom: http://bit.ly/c3a82U

Mewshop Final Cut Pro Blog – Vimeo Settings For Final Cut Pro: To read the full article please click here. http://bit.ly/cNcYz6

PeterWiggins 20 Final Cut Pro plugin tutorials http://tinyurl.com/3xozawv

CounterCultureP Flipbook for Arri Alexa: Check out the flip book from Arri for the Alexa.
Shoot > Edit > ALEXA. http://bit.ly/9Tf7l6

AdobePremiere Paul Trani shows how to apply effects and save effect presets: http://bit.ly/aMATq2 details of effect presets:… http://fb.me/Gw1KkrVk

ebertchicago Christiane Kubrick speaks about Stanley and their marriage of 41 years. http://j.mp/9CzmVa

justwinston Read two articles about the Pharmaceutical industry in the past couple days. Horrifying stuff: http://links.wnstn.com/

GuyKawasaki The price tags of 8 famous brand redesigns http://holykaw.alltop.com/the-price-tags-of-8-famous-brand-redesigns

Lifehacker How to Always Get to the Airport On Time http://lifehacker.com/5628154/

TEDTALK Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself http://bit.ly/cII95M

Filmbot 2001 :A Space Odyssey- Doco from Douglas Trumbull http://bit.ly/c9htFJ

Finally (and predictably):

stevensantos Congress trying to quietly kill a bill that would cut their pay http://bit.ly/dfQGzl I wrote all my member of Congress about this for comment and not a single word back.

Magic Bullet Colorista II shipped and I wrote a review of it over at the Editblog on PVC. I also wrote a little discussion about a sloppy Final Cut Pro timeline.

Oliver Peters again discusses RED post, the easy way. And if you haven’t read his discussion about levels in Avid vs. FCP then click over right now.

Intelligent Assistance has introduced prEdit that lets you make a rough cut from transcribed footage. Could be a nice way to get a radio edit … fast.

Shane Ross has a great post about his workflow on a recent job.

If you’ve ever needed to change the font of multiple text clips in FCP then this plug-in is for you.

These 31 vfx breakdowns are a great learning tool.

DPs and Colorists have a special relationship.

Want to know how to publish an iBook?

So you can install iMovie 6 without iLife 08, if anyone was wondering.

Walter Biscardi took a visit to Flanders Scientific. Man I want one of those monitors.

Here’s 10 good tips for a better editing experience.

Ohh that clarity slider in Lightroom can be a good thing. And speaking of Lightroom here’s 8 steps to craft a good image.

You really can get an eSATA port on an iMac.

The Canon 7D gets a firmware update. Now when do we get better audio like the 5D?

It’s fun to look at show reels. They can be inspiring.

I love this idea about a Mac Mini Pro.

The world’s largest digital photo.

Why is urban decay so much fun to look at?

Links from Twitter:

AdobePremiere Here is part one of the Premiere Pro vs Final Cut Pro Shootout live stream  http://fb.me/xq8dPJep

cinerebel Wanting to get into After Effects, but feel overwhelmed? Here’s ten free tutorials to get you started. http://ow.ly/2orXJ

borisfx New Product: Transfer Apple Final Cut Pro Sequences to Avid Media Composer: http://www.borisfx.com/AAF/

matymartel Wicked: How to Build Your Own Tilt-Shift Lens for Just $10 http://bit.ly/c0SzMq

videoguys How to Unlock Adobe Premiere CS5 to use almost any NVIDIA graphics card with CUDA acceleration http://bit.ly/9wZfkC

digitalreb Apple is looking at improving Final Cut Studio gamma accuracy: http://bit.ly/ddSIwF

artguillotine The man who put the Pro in Final Cut http://bit.ly/csvdfe (it’s a vid)

michaschmidt I just liked “Canon 7D vs. Barbie Video Girl” on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/13992345

TheGenesisProj Don’t take Adobe’s word for it – check out Tom’s Hardware on CS4 vs. #CS5. Real numbers that are amazing – http://bit.ly/c7e3vC

artguillotine Alter your system to work better for you as an editor http://bit.ly/anKdBv

paulzadie How to be Insanely Productive and Still Keep Smiling http://tumblr.com/xxbepwe6i

creattica Send To Dropbox is a beautiful, simple way to email files to your Dropbox http://enva.to/bmuP7E

jwidmer LinkedIn adds the ability to showcase your work with the Portfolio App! http://ow.ly/2kzOQ

iGert Playhead for Final Cut Pro/Express http://bit.ly/b602f6

nicholaspatten Is Google Watching You? New Plugin Will Let You Know. http://bit.ly/9b0cR1

mozhenko Image Stabilization in Avid Media Composer http://bit.ly/bvJnYE

thomasberglund Good discussion about the art of editing: http://bit.ly/ainU2N

philiphodgetts Announcing The Terence and Philip Show http://bit.ly/b9E8Yg Terry Curren and my irreverent views on Apple, Adobe, Avid and post production

millimeter_mag Stabilizing Your Video Footage with Red Giant Software Magic Bullet Steady and Boris Continuum Optical Stabilizer Mac http://ow.ly/2e01h

DigitalNashvlle Five Questions to Ask Yourself Before Changing Careers http://ht.ly/2dJ5N

fcpworld Useful and FREE #FCP Plug-ins from David Heidelberger http://bit.ly/apafxR Clip Labeler!

NateOrloff The Editorial Cliff (and Why You Should Always Jump Off It): http://wp.me/pM5Yr-1s

thedvshow If this article isn’t offensive to video professionals I don’t know what is: http://bit.ly/9Pee0B

thedvshow very cool Video-Asset Management plugin for Lightroom users: http://bit.ly/c0V3rz

jwidmer LinkedIn adds the ability to showcase your work with the Portfolio App! http://ow.ly/2kzOQ

GetPhonetic I uploaded a YouTube video — Search your indexed media in get for Final Cut Pro http://youtu.be/3ZFKEAXMa34?a

And finally … damn this is a funny Orchestra Fail:

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.

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

Here’s an abbreviated April linkage. With NAB 2010 right in the middle of the month there hasn’t been much time to collect links.

FreshDV has all the video coverage from NAB 2010 so there won’t be a lot of links here as they cover almost everything cool.

Pro Video Coalition posted a lot in NAB RealTime as well.

The big Adobe CS5 launch is all right here.

Avid introduced Media Composer 5. Here’s a good, shaky feature video.  Avid also did a “cloud” based, online browser based editing demo that was very cool. A podcast is available here.

You can now get a Matrox MXO2 Mini and have it work with the Media Composer 5.

DaVinci Resolve is now cheap. There’s a COW discussion on using it with a RED Rocket as well.

Hmm, an HD field monitor made especially for DSLRs.

Maybe there will be an iPad color grading surface.

This new Arri Alexa digital cinema camera will be at NAB and have it’s own conference session.

Walter Biscardi talks about those 3 A’s of post.

As always Oliver Peters has some great random impressions of NAB 2010. Discrete Cosine does too.

And check out the archived stream of the SuperMeet here. Yes you can see the Final Cut Pro product manager stand on-stage and say he has a secret but then proceed to tell the audience no secret at all.

And for iPad:

If you haven’t read the exhaustive iPad user manual under your Safari bookmarks on the iPad here’s the online pdf version.

Of course they asked if the iPad will blend.

The iPad for video businesses.

These are 8 great cool iPad wallpaper pranks.

Here’s an iPad piece about Final Cut Pro and screen sharing.

Camera for iPad looks cool.

Want to see an iPad being torn down?

A nice 48-point iPad review after 72 hours.

WordPress made an iPad app and shows you how they did it.

Of course iLounge did an iPad review.

The iPad pixel doubling if iPhone apps is addressed in this article.

iDisplay looks like a cool way to extend your desktop if it really works.

TechCrunch’s best iPad apps at launch.

Word also came that the legendary editor Dede Allen passed away over the weekend. The Fine Cut has a nice collection of YouTube clips to celebrate her career.

Transcriptize looks sweeeeet, and ingenious.

So Cineform is now realtime in Final Cut Pro. I must try this out.

Videoguys talks about Avid’s Mix-and-Match feature in Media Composer.

Here’s a nice post on a 7D/5D workflow.

An interesting FCP 6 vs FCP 7 speed test.

So Paramount Pictures is going to back 10 $100,000 movies a year. Nice.

You can download some RED Mysterium R3D files if you want. And maybe play with them in the new, paid version of Clipfinder.

Here’s 28 mocha tutorials.

They say you should avoid using subpixels in FCP.

Avid has posted their chat with part of the Avatar editorial team.

You can use Redcine X to create files for Avid Media Composer.

This is a nice post on an effect shot in the making.

Final Cut Pro has something similar to Avid’s Select Media Relatives.

The 2010 State of the Edit.

Euphonix MC  Colors have shipped and reviews are popping up. I’ll have mine in a few weeks.

Here’s a couple of Applescripts for FCP editors. Haven’t tried them.

There’s 3 lenses every photographer should own.

Links from Twitter:

ebertchicago My all-time top tweet, “the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.” http://j.mp/7B7xbG

Dr0id CUTTING ON EMOTION: A CONVERSATION WITH FILM EDITOR MICHAEL R. MILLER http://tinyurl.com/y86vgal

AshleighWright Griptools remote. Free iPhone app to rotate objects in #cinema4d (via @jamesrickards)

kahel Huge congrats to H5 for Best Animated Short! See Logorama in full here: http://bit.ly/Logorama

tylerginter James Cameron on TED!!!!!! A must watch – Before Avatar … a curious boy | Video on TED.comhttp://bit.ly/d4CwJq

rhedpixel Learn how to organize images with #Aperture – free tutorial for #photogs and video pros –http://bit.ly/c0nojX

markspen Who needs an editor, motion graphics designer, sound designer, etc. anymore? http://animoto.com/

PeterWiggins Got a DSLR ? Then learn how to lighthttp://tinyurl.com/24somc

avidscreencast Create a bunch of titles automatically with Marquee’s Autotitler. http://avidscreencast.com/asc17

gwc11713 Cool Mac App. Mazaika, extremely fast photo mosaic app that produces a composite image from hundreds of smaller images. http://tr.im/GWCMUP

paulzadie Want some free Aperture 3 presets?http://bit.ly/cVrNTU #aperture #photography

weynandtraining You may not use Asymmetrical trimming a lot. But you may find times when this is exactly the editing approach you need. http://bit.ly/cdUPrJ

@fcpdaily: FCP Free: Marcus Herrick’s Haiku Plugins for FCP // Face Light & Easy Vignette.http://tinyurl.com/ygl676c

mashcraft Six things to keep in mind when designing a logo.: http://bit.ly/7LBh72

A few a bit off topic:

Amazingly, Popular Science has put all of its 137 archives online for free browsing.

Did your old Macbook hard drive crash? If so check this out. Mine crashed the week before the program and I replaced it with an Amazon drive but Apple is (apparently) going to pay me for that drive.

The kids are doing the lipdub amazingly well.