It’s two weeks before the annual trek to film and video’s altar of technology, the National Association of Broadcasters’ convention and exhibition in Las Vegas. It’s a weird year because two major exhibitors – Avid and Apple – have both decided they could better spend their marketing dollars in other ways than by mounting multi-million-dollar [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Amsterdam and IBC
Posted in business, misc, tagged business on March 29, 2008 | Comments Off
Staying Green In Post
Posted in business, media, misc, tagged business, media on March 29, 2008 | Comments Off
A lot of emphasis is being placed on saving the environment and operating in a “greener” workplace. That may be easy to see in a production on location, where waste is easy to identify, but how is that applied to post facilities and editing boutiques? Let me outline some simple steps to help you do [...]
What Makes A Good Editor?
Posted in business, editing, film student, tagged business, editing on March 25, 2008 | Comments Off
As a client you work with many different personalities in the production and post-production phases of a project. While the director and director of photography have a significant impact on the production, the editor will often be the one that molds the final look of a piece. The post- production phase is sometimes even longer [...]
So… You Want To Be An Editor
Posted in business, editing, film student, tagged business, editing on March 25, 2008 | Comments Off
Many students go through film school and land upon the idea that they are best suited to edit feature films. Unfortunately, it’s a rare situation in which someone simply walks out of school and starts cutting motion pictures. Most of us work on many different types of projects for years – ranging from corporate videos [...]
Posting RED
Posted in Avid, Final Cut Studio, RED, color grading, workflows, tagged Avid, color grading, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, RED, workflows on March 16, 2008 | Comments Off
In two short years Oakley founder Jim Jannard has piloted RED Digital Camera from an unknown upstart to an industry force. Unofficially buyers have reserved over 3,500 cameras, of which several hundred are now out in the wild. If everything is on track, I estimate that by year’s end RED Digital Camera will have shipped [...]
