People like competition for its own sake, so the NLE argument – just like other platform wars – never dies. In the past year, Apple and Avid have broken new ground with very solid updates to their flagship editor applications. Apple with its introduction of the “new” Final Cut Studio, featuring Final Cut Pro 7 [...]
Archive for the ‘Avid’ Category
Final Cut vs. Avid Redux
Posted in Avid, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, business, editing, tagged Avid, business, editing, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio on October 17, 2009 | Comments Off
Avid Media Composer 2009
Posted in Avid, editing, tagged Avid, editing on September 29, 2009 | Comments Off
Earlier this year Avid released the 3.5 version of Media Composer software, as well as the corresponding versions for NewsCutter and Symphony. Media Composer 3.5 included more change and innovation than a typical .5 software release. Besides many small improvements, there are three big features promoted with this release: software activation, 3D stereoscopic editing and [...]
Sitting in the Mix
Posted in Avid, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, editing, film student, tagged audio, Avid, editing, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, music on August 31, 2009 | Comments Off
Like most video editors, audio mixing isn’t necessarily my forte, but there are plenty of projects, where I end up “playing a mixer on TV”. I’ll be the first to recommend that – budget permitting – you should have an experienced audio editor/mixer handle the sound portion of your project. I work with several and [...]
Canon EOS 5D Mark II in the real world
Posted in Avid, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, My Projects, RED, editing, misc, workflows, tagged Avid, Canon 5D, editing, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, RED on August 15, 2009 | Comments Off
A case study on dealing with Canon 5D Mk2 footage on actual productions.
You could say that it started with Panasonic and Nikon, but it wasn’t until professional photographer Vincent Laforet posted his ground-breaking short film Reverie, that the idea of a shooting video with a DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera caught everyone’s imagination. The [...]
FxFactory adds diversity to your toolkit
Posted in Avid, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, animation, editing, graphics, tagged Adobe, After Effects, animation, Avid, editing, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, FxFactory, graphics, Noise Industries, plug-ins on July 25, 2009 | Comments Off
For the past few posts I’ve been looking at a number of new plug-ins and applications designed to augment an editor’s toolset. I’m going to round off this “Plug-in Summer” with a fresh look at FxFactory. Noise Industries was one of the first developers to leverage the power of Apple’s Core Image technology for real-time [...]
