The Editblog

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.

I recently wrote some ideas about the upcoming Apple iPad in post production.

And how might screenwriters use the iPad?

Here’s some fantastic links if you’re getting started with After Effects.

Here’s some nice advice about not using Save As… while working in FCP.

The February 5, 2010 FCPUG SuperMeet is now available to watch via streaming.

Western Digital’s My Book hard drives suck.

Even USA Today is getting in on the DSLR video craze.

Firewire 800 vs. eSATA. Always a good shootout.

Yep, it’s Flash vs HTML 5 for video on the web.

Larry Jordan has 10 tips for faster editing in FCP. Some are very basic but if you’re new then …

You’ve probably already seen this open letter to James Cameron about fairness for VFX artists.

Its the Data Wrangler, data wrangling “robot” to help your DIT.

Do you need to smooth out your subject’s skin in Final Cut Pro?

And here’s yet another new blog about Final Cut Pro and related stuff.

Norman Hollyn returns with hit first blog post in a while. He’s been working on a book.

Here’s the top 5 mocha workflow tips.

More on the flat picture styles with the Canon cameras.

Here’s the Avid RED workflow using their Metafuze application.

If you’re interesting in network rendering with Avid Metafuze check this out.

There may be a FCP to Soundtrack bug as well as a workaround.

SimpleMovieX is a lightweight video editor for Mac users.

If you want to make the Mac Finder better then this might help.

If you need a podcast episode on film editing, here’s one.

This is a great post about finding that magic shot in a multicam show.

This is a good read if you are a new release dependent Netflix user.

Links from Twitter:

KarlSoule Post Magazine interviews some of the Adobe video product managers: http://tinyurl.com/yd9cpvu

BourkePR Imagineer’s mocha: Behind the Scenes of Scorsese’s Shutter Island http://bit.ly/bMaaRB

HDRphotography HDR tutorial – Open multiple windows in photoshop to view the entire dynamic range of your #HDRimage. http://hdriblog.com/hdr-tutorial/

twistedpoly New Cinebench 11.5 is avaliable for download :http://skrci.me/

cameron_smith breakdowns from Avatar on Weta Digital’s site… http://www.wetafx.co.nz/features/avatar/

DylanReeve New Blog Post – Editor’s Swiss Army Knife – essential tools on a USB stick. http://bit.ly/bs70zk

rhedpixel Five sites for great free fonts – http://bit.ly/b7Mijh

shepherdfx Top 12 Sites To Watch Videos That Are Better Than YouTube http://su.pr/1ahzeB

glenbailey 20 Real-World uses for Google Wave. Very interesting article. http://bit.ly/9Z1Kau

brucesharpe What you need to know to make beautiful, inexpensive movies: an excellent DSLR cinematography guide.http://is.gd/7LJ94

thomasberglund Show (and hide) hidden files in Open/Save dialogs in Snow Leopard: http://bit.ly/4mt1D

avidscreencast: New Episode: Red Workflow IV – Avid to Color, quick and painless.http://avidscreencast.com/asc15

wingrove Graeme’s reply to the ASC ‘Assessment’ article in american cinematographer Feb issue http://bit.ly/bGk1W1

officialavatar The Complete AVATAR Script Onlinehttp://bit.ly/5jGUlT

And a few others.

Here’s some of the 2010 Oscar nominations for animated short film.

Here’s a great time waster: a round up of Best Photos of 2009 blog posts.

This toy car stop-motion film is great fun and yes, the world needs a Succeed Blog.

In case you missed it, RED’s Ted had a Scarlet prototype (among other things) he was showing at CES.

We’re starting a monthly backup reminder. And here’s another backup discussion.

It’s a good idea for editors to understand the basics of audio compression.

Post Fifth Pictures wrote about their experience with FCP, AE and gamma issues.

Here’s a nice camera blocking case study.

Here’s 15 companies that make After Effects plug-ins.

Dropbox is a great web service. And you can use it for quick, easy and free client screeners.

Tyler Ginter tells us all about the 180 degree shutter.

It’s an After Effects CS4 keyboard shortcut cheat sheet.

And yet another DSLR filmmaker’s workflow.

Ever need to remove a Final Cut Studio license?

It’s always worth reading an article on fair use. This one is for documentaries.

Want to see what that installer installs? Here’s a tip.

Motion graphics artist Brad Chmielewski’s blog has Type Tuesday.

Let’s look at a brief history of video compression.

Here’s a little web app to convert Avid Locators into Final Cut Studio usable chapter markers.

So Tiffen has introduced a little Steadicam for the iPhone. Good God make it stop.

54 highly resourceful after effects tutorials.

So there are still DPs who shoot film.

Here’s a recently discovered blog from Brad Cordeiro about reality tv post and related adventures.

Panasonic introduced this $21,000 3D camera.

Plug-in maker idustrial revolution has a Facebook page. Let’s all become a fan.

Do you use AppZapper to uninstall apps on the Mac? It’s been updated.

It’s some lessons in DIY, guerrilla filmmaking.

Here’s a DIY gearless follow focus.

For still shooters, here’s metering modes explained.

Did you make your professional New Years Resolutions?

Links from Twitter:

angelobell: When YES means “Yes,” and when YES means “no” in the film industry – http://ow.ly/TosV

nicholaspatten: 10 Remarkably Useful Dashboard Widgets.http://bit.ly/4Nm9TI

sorensonmedia: Major Sorenson 360 Update including: HD Video and Search Engine Optimization. Find out more:http://su.pr/9NHdk3

alexm13: A Freelancer’s Guide to Dealing with Difficult Peoplehttp://su.pr/4KXLWR

nashvillest: Awesome! Free wireless network planned for downtown Nashville. http://bit.ly/85anzQ

BourkePR: FLYfx: Tracking with mocha http://bit.ly/7iRtll

flippantfilms: The struggles of getting your movie made is universal http://bit.ly/932I11

schnittman: Cool demo of Adobe’s Mercury Playback engine with AVCHD footage. http://bit.ly/4GTfyo

idustrialrev: RT @definition2009: 44 3D Production terms you need to know http://tinyurl.com/yeqlpcv

videoguys: Videoguys Blog – Avid Stereoscopic 3D Editing Guide: Take 2D to the 3D level. Learn how to edit in the 3rd dimension: http://bit.ly/7i1u1B

digitalreb: Interesting read: Could Apple be moving to a spectrum of operating systems? http://is.gd/5DA8E

iamkhayyam: The 50 Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009 |http://bit.ly/5Ong1Y

luge: What Makes A Good FIlm ‘Package’? Informative read @ Film Specific; http://snipurl.com/u3g7u

dougluberts: Great post on videomaker on a basic, but, oft confused, topic: What is a CODEC? - http://shar.es/aRnx2

sorensonmedia: Two paths to online video… or why Sorenson 360?http://su.pr/2tYs2w

And finally, 2 super simple, cheap, free DIY hacks for the iPhone.

Over at the Editblog on PVC I posted a review of the new Apple Magic Mouse and Final Cut Studio as well as a look at mocha for Final Cut.

There’s also my Tangent Wave review on PVC and another Wave review at the Biscardi Creative Blog.

HDHead has a post on MetaFuze Network Rendering.

We all want to know how to speed up Compressor, right?

It’s been a not too great secret that Gluetools is working on an FCP Log and Transfer plug-in for Canon media.

Digital Films is full of great info this month with some great tips for small camera and hybrid DSLR production and discussion on the AJA Ki Pro and the Blackmagic Design UltraScope.

So Apple introduced this new iFrame codec. Why it’s a bad idea. Why it’s a good idea. IMHO any new codec at this point in time is a bad idea.

Here’s a nice piece on writing for editing.

Ahhh vignettes and vignetting.

Mike Jones has listed a nice free digital library resource.

Studio Monthly reviews Sonicfire Pro 5.

Take the Survey: 50 States, 50 Filmmakers.

And there’s the Weisscam camera for super slo mo.

Here’s part 3 of an interview with Michael Wohl of the original Final Cut Pro development team.

Come on now, can the iPhone really be a “serious, zooming video camera?”

You can kill hours exploring this best movies of all time map.

Damn John Cusack is a good driver.

Get your designer 3D glasses before Avatar hits!

And finally, Final Cut Pro has made it to FailBlog.

Do you want to know how to download and install Lightroom presets?

Links from Twitter:

ross_shain: 50% off mocha for Final Cut all November!http://bit.ly/2MtUOs

markspen: How to Cheat in Motion new book by my friend Patrick – great tips http://bit.ly/1zmudV

digitalheaven: Take the survey and tell us what you’d like to see in Loader 2.0, the import app for FCP:http://bit.ly/3rpOEd

hyams: netflix push studios to cut inventory cost by half in exchange for one-month delay on new releases http://bit.ly/4n1qrK

stevensantos: Indie Film Shakeout: There Will Be Bloodhttp://bit.ly/4DK5V3

gorillaprod: NFB doc short that inspired Kubrick’s 2001. Film fan must see http://www.nfb.ca/film/Univ… old school sfx & V.O. sound like HAL

DylanReeve: Oooh, I blogged “The DVR Battle – TiVO vs MySky” http://bit.ly/tivoVSmysky

vignesraj: jitouch – Multitouch Extension for MacBook’s Trackpad. http://www.jitouch.com/

RodHarlan: For your next project: Here are 13 Tools for Building your own iPhone app! http://bit.ly/u4H2E

brucesharpe: ”Seismic Shift: Why DSLRs Are Changing the Game” Nice survey by Jem Schofield. http://bit.ly/FKMwX

ccrask: Rt 10 Ways you can use Twitter lists:http://ow.ly/15Zw6p

comebackshane: The lies we all tell… http://bit.ly/3oWumv

digitalreb: Excellent review of the Matrox CompressHD card:http://tr.im/EqL5

DylanReeve: Interesting, echoes a lot of my thoughts on film schools in NZ (I graduated from one) http://post.ly/Bw6n

sam_longoria: Are Filmmaking and Film School Going Down The Drain?  http://bit.ly/A7jsT

lafcpug: Tickets go on sale for the “The Avid/FCP 2-Step” lafcpug meet, Nov 5 at 12:00 noon http://bit.ly/jB6iI

tylerginter : 10 breathtaking viewing platforms around the world: http://j.mp/wQh25 (via @petapixel)

geoperdis: Interactive image from World Series game 1, made from 675 stitched photo. Can you spot Alec Baldwin behind home plate? http://j.mp/2aLIGu

taigmcnab: New on the website: Final thoughts on Final Cut Server http://tinyurl.com/y8whmb9

markspen: Every MacBreak Studio episode on Motion in one place: http://bit.ly/2Lq6Qx

5tu :Added some details to the anamorphic lens test.http://vimeo.com/7370134

bcfilmmaker : ”District 9″ VFX Sequence Supervisor writes about The Current Status of Visual Effectshttp://bit.ly/30I9HC

nicholaspatten :Free Peeling Paint Textures.http://bit.ly/1QG9Yo

jarrardcole :A must read for anyone who is or interacts with cashiers: The royal order of the coinhttp://tinyurl.com/yglgqc8

Off-topic:

Here a recent investigative piece that is a great study into why concert tickets are so expensive and why you can’t buy cheap seats seconds after they go on-sale.

Books of the month:

You can give Norman Hollyn‘s books a read while we all wait for his next one:

I discussed using PluralEyes auto syncing software on a music video over at the Editblog on PVC.

Mike Jones has a great article talking about developer’s plugging the holes in Final Cut Pro’s boat.

You may never need to do this but if you do here’s how to change the timecode / system frequency on a Sony HDCAM deck.

Apple has posted a massive 132 page pdf called Final Cut Pro 7 Professional Formats adn Workflows. PDF link.

And here’s an eCinema white paper on how to create a professional FCP color grading suite.

Here’s a 3 way discussion on Avid, FCP and Adobe Premiere Pro.

You can “film” MotoGP in 3D HD! Now if we could just see it that way.

Adobe releases Photoshop for the iPhone! Kinda.

Post Haste is a very handy tool for FCP editors.

Shane Ross has moved his blog Little Frog in High Def to a new url. Update you feeds accordingly.

Someone’s selling Blu-ray templates for Final Cut Studio.

Here’s info about a free application for syncing two folders.

TechCrunch rounded up the new Apps for Everything space on Apple’s website.

The database app Bento 3 is out. And there’s an iPhone version.

Michael Cinquin has updated his online RED workflow tools.

Here’s an idea to use the hidden Toast Video Player if you have Toast.

Did you see that latest RED reel?

I reviewed the Bella HD Mouse for Studio Monthly.

And which peripherals are covered under AppleCare?

Links from Twitter:

careyd RT @Filmbot: @damoxy: http://bit.ly/m5ZGq 1 Million FPS Slow-Mo video of bullet impacts, some of the most impressive stuff I’ve ever seen. Indeed!

alex4d Hate Apple? Love Apple? Complain about Apple? Great forum post: ‘Apple is not your friend’ http://bit.ly/1ska8

AvidTechnology Featured Customer Tutorial >> Preparing RED Dailies with Avid MetaFuze: http://bit.ly/2q35MP

digitalreb Possible solution for being unable to submit batches in Compressor? http://tinyurl.com/mh9uq7

ericnon America’s subsidies for filmmaking http://bit.ly/XCEtp

paulzadie Arri 16SR to get a digital capture module – http://bit.ly/10cbn4

@YahooMovies: Exclusive: See how they made the giant tidal waves in ’2012′ – http://bit.ly/w6Sgr

Off Topic:

Lifehacker Mint.com Breaks Down Rewards Programs, Cent by Cent http://lifehacker.com/5376167

creattica 50 awesome free fonts for professional design http://bit.ly/j6n4O

kennbell Using CPR On Your Dog Can Save It’s Life http://bit.ly/2IsFhP

These are 21 great still photos and how they were taken.

So Top Gear may move to HD! If we only get it in America that will be a good thing.

These are the People of Wal-Mart.

This new disc from the Black Crowes is a double length set, recorded live in front of an audience in a barn. It’s divided into 2 halves, traditional Crowes and a more country/blue grass influenced second half. The price is right for all the music you get.

Noah Kadner’s book about the RED camera has been released and is pretty much the only one.

Check out my ParticleMetrix review for Studio Monthly. Verdict : sweet.

Little Frog talks about a sequence clip reporter app.

Here’s 10 good steps to getting and keeping a client.

Here’s discussion of Final Cut Studio and Avid feature requests.

Cartoon Creator looks like a fun iPhone app, especially for the budding, young animator.

Is it really cheaper to shoot digitally than to shoot film?

This is a great RED based article from Mike Jones.

Is 222 Apple Motion tutorials enough to keep you busy for a while?

Andy Mees talks about some secret FCP shortcuts.

The built-in Final Cut Pro cropping won’t feather the edge when you actually crop but this plug-in solves that problem.

myDVDEdit wants to be the ResEdit for DVDs … but from the website it’s kinda hard to find out exactly what it does.

Here’s an AIR based app that is a library of Adobe application shortcuts.

Concentrate promises to help get work done.

You can reveal hidden menu bar functions in Snow Leopard.

This is a cool power strip.

Here’s a summer 2009 movie wrap-up.

A couple of cool After Effects filters include Bitweiser Light to deal with overexposed footage and Bad TV to make some bad tv.

Animoto does “beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your media. Free, fast and shockingly easy.” You know, when you don’t want to edit them yourself.

Here’s a color correction case study on a feature film in a nice 27 minute video.

Make it easier to find what you’re looking for with the new Snow Leopard.

What does a 1917 motion picture and a RED camera have in common?

Here’s a very niche book about guerrilla horror filmmakers.

The Yelp iPhone app has added a hidden “augmented reality” feature.

ae tuts has a cool lesson on creating those glitchy interface animations that are quite common.

Gruml is a new Google Reader stand-alone app from the Mac.

Links from Twitter:

shepherdfx20 Creative Apps For Your iPhonehttp://su.pr/1nYHrl

danielkutzThe Horror that is Pan and Scanhttp://bit.ly/gOSMb

hennincFree encoding recipes PDF for Compressor, Squeeze and the likes – via Jim Curtis on FCP-L http://bit.ly/19tHlZ

bcfilmmakerRED ALERT! 10 Things RED Camera Users Need To Know http://bit.ly/FUSZ7

digitalrebCan FCP and FCE be installed on the same drive? Apparently so: http://tinyurl.com/n89t4a

rhedpixel Quentin Tarantino: Hit director when he picks a genre people care about, an expensive hobbyist when he doesn’t. http://bit.ly/mTOp0

ericnon America’s subsidies for filmmaking http://bit.ly/XCEtp

AvidTechnology Knowledge Base >> Importing media from a ‘Flip’ Camera: http://bit.ly/kOWlU

ianshepherd Why mp3s sound bad, and how to hear it http://twurl.nl/5cn6km

And a bit off topic:

50 things that are being killed by the Internet. I might add high quality video production to that too.

carbongirl Top 20 most unbelievable photos! http://bit.ly/WUW4M

pablokorona: http://unscrewamerica.org/ how have i not seen this site before?!?!

nicholaspattenFast Food Revealed: Real vs. Ads.http://bit.ly/1bBlyK (I want to do this with video!)

wingrove Buy a gorgeous Replica 1967 F1 car. Hit the gallery for some hand built engineering goodness.. http://www.f1-67.com/index…. (click this link open wheel racing fans and prepare to drool!)

Book of the month:

Music of the month:

(or if you really want the physical disc: The ’59 Sound on CD

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro user group meetings are now online for a small fee. This is a great resource.

The 2008 ACE Equipment Survey is up and online.

Get ready for some reading. The book DROIDMAKER: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution is available as a free pdf download. At least for now.

CineForm has a new product called the CineDDR, as in direct-to-disk recording.

The Edit Foundry has posted a great piece on Eye Trace.

ParticleMetrix is a new plug-in from idustrial Revolution.

Here’s some great viewing with the Top 10 Rock n Roll documentaries.

And here’s 10 bargains for no-budget filmmakers.

Our friend Jim Geduldick’s Final Cut User blog was featured on G4′s Attack of the Show.

While writing Please label tapes and disks: An open letter to DPs, camera ops, DITs I got a couple of good links about all of the different HD formats and frame rates that are out there.

Here’s a new 35mm lens adapter called the Modo35. Speaking of 35mm adapters, Call Box has a DVD about just that.

The DV Show lists out 55+ iPhone Apps For Video Pros as well a a great list of apps that might help Rescue Corrupt Video.

Digital Revolution has a nice list of Guides to Digital Filmmaking and products that make up a Virtual Film School.

Shane Ross found a sample contract that might come in handy for editors.

Here’s 404 Avid Tutorials.

Cameras is a free Mac OSX preference that lets you assign cameras to certain applications.

Norman Hollyn follows 15 Film School Tips in 20 Minutes with More  Film School Tips.

Yep, the new iPhone 3G S shoots video (though it doesn’t really edit it) … while it is cool it’s not the second coming though the fanboys go nuts over it with things like music videos, “film” competitions, expensive supports, stereo and shoulder rigs. Calm down people it’s just a phone that shoots crappy, non-HD video.

Could the SD card replace DVDs on our computers? It would be more like the future if they did.

Here’s 10 Photoshop Interface Features you (maybe) Didn’t Know Existed.

So apparently there’s hidden metadata in Final Cut Pro. That’s just like FCP to have something there that the editor can’t use or get access to.

So maybe you don’t need real scopes to produce broadcast legal tv. But with HD scopes finally this affordable why not if you’re producing for broadcast. To me it would be worth it just to have them all always available at a glance and not taking up screen real estate.

I’m not sure how I feel about 5 Second Films.

Links from Twitter:

lafcpug located 8 Documentary Dos & Don’ts.

bcfilmmaker tweeted the Top 5 Things You Need To Know When Making Your Low Budget Film.

5tu likes the Six No-Budget Lessons of Be Kind Rewind.

Underseen posted the helpful 25 Free Mac Apps That Will Boost Your Productivity.

karimamara points to IFC’s 50 greatest trailers of all time.

eastbayjay - Keep Your Customers Around with Better Customer Service for Your Freelance Business

TheEditDoctor found an HV20/30/40 focus ring.

PXLpainter retweeted @GuyKawasaki 12 Real-Life Locations Behind Out-of-this-World Films http://trkk.us/?gFD

Filmbot retweeted from 3DWorldMag: 10 defining moments in CG history.

rhedpixel found a nice site for vector brushes and artwork for Illustrator and other Adobe Apps http://vector-art.blogspot.com

kfirpravda wrote an open letter to Steve Jobs: Don’t Forget The Pro Users.

gopalbalaji got technical with a link to How Cineon File Format Works.

mrbarnard1: On-location feature film production in Hollywood has fallen to its lowest levels on record. http://sn.im/n25pq

stevensantos posted about Editor Anthony Harvey on the lost ending of Dr. Strangelove and PaulForte said to check out “Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes,”  a documentary about Kubrick’s archives … though the video doesn’t seem to be available anymore. Google it and you can find it in different parts.

Off topic:

Damn Man Babies is funny and Pingwire will kill a lot of time as you watch pics being posted to Twitter in real time.

And finally,  stevensantos also linked to this Rolling Stone article by Matt Taibbi’s about Goldman Sachs: http://bit.ly/10pqAg It will make your blood boil.

Apparently there was a new iPhone intoduced earlier this month that will allow for video capture. There’s even some basic editing trimming capabilities built in.

What Apple didn’t do is introduce an updated version of Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Studio … or even mention it at the WWDC keynote. Join in the lively discussion at Studio Daily if you have an opinion.

A number of posts have gone up around the web as to what editors would like to see in Final Cut Pro 7 and Final Cut Studio 3.  If they would just fix my bottom 10 issues I’d be happy.

If you use any of the Cineform products they’re recently posted new versions of just about everything.

Videoguys has a nice overview of all those many formats out there in the world.

Tyler Ginter collected a lot of information on camera sensor sizes and posted a an article about just that.

Do you have a Panasonic HMC150? Have you noticed noise in your footage?

Will video shooting digital SLR still cameras be the death of 35mm lens adapters?

If you have both a Vimeo channel and boxee installed on something you might be able to make your own  boxee app.

You can cut, color and compress Canon 5D Mark II footagte.

If Final Cut Pro annoys you because it won’t let you eject a drive that you know you can eject then this article might help.

American Artist has an interview with the Coen brother’s storyboard artist J. Todd Anderson.

You really can colour grade a still image on your iPhone with the Mill’s grading appliction. Even secondaries! Wonder if they  will adapt this for the iPhone 3G S with video capture!

From AETUS, 26 Tracking and 3D Matchmoving + After Effects Tutorials.

5 Tips for Effective Final Cut Pro Editing.

Here’s a new blog about Daniel’s experience in the world of video production.

and the most important link of the month:

http://www.runpee.com/  - a service whose time has come. It tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie.

Links from Twitter:

WeyW noticed that Digital Juice has an article called Five Tips for Lighting Talent.

thedvshow answers:  How does Apple compress their trailers so well? as well as What is the difference between export to ‘Quicktime Movie’ and export using ‘Quicktime Conversion’ ?

andybeach found FireFTP, an FTP client for the Firefox browser.

eastbayjay found a Magnetic / Detachable Fish-Eye Lens for iPhone / Cellphone / NDS … though the English on the website descriptions is quite bad and some amazing motion graphics work.

bcfilmmaker found the excellent Google Wave for filmmakers concept.

g2barmen linked to a Fox Business channel story called Is Indie Film Dead?

johnmontfx posted that vfx company The Foundry has started blogging.

jasondiamond linked to a great resource on understanding resolution.

schiffy wrote an article on how to convert Avid locators into DVD Studio Pro chapter markers.

trimforward has given the world a free Compressor sertting to output 2:1 RED footage to DVD.

ccrask notes that the Omni Group’s OmniDazzle screen effects and presentation software is now available for free.

kahel says he needs one of these. I say every edit suite in the world needs one to show to clients.

CoolHandLucas said: Stop whatever you’re doing and watch the trailer for “Precious” RIGHT NOW!! I agree. Wow.

And if your job sucks then you can maybe get a really goode job where you live in a winery and Twitter (among other things) about wine. Hurry though, you’ve got less than a week to get your application in.

Oh yea:

Very nice idea Peter.