If winter is the time for a bit of R&R in Florida, then it’s time to consider the annual Editors Retreat, now in its fifth year. This is an opportunity to spend a few days with a select group of editors for professional training, an exchange of ideas and just plain fun. The Editors Retreat [...]
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The annual Editors Retreat is coming
Posted in business, editing on November 15, 2009 | Comments Off
Tips for Small Camera and Hybrid DSLR Production
Posted in business, misc, television, workflows, tagged Canon 5D, HDSLR, media, Nikon D3s, photography, workflows on November 6, 2009 | Comments Off
It started in earnest last year and has no sign of abating. Videographers are clearly in the midst of two revolutions: tapeless recording and the use of the hybrid still/video camera (HDSLR). The tapeless future started with P2 and XDCAM, but these storage devices have been joined by other options, including Compact Flash, SD and [...]
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
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 [...]
Edit Suite Design, Part III
Posted in business, editing, workflows, tagged Avid, business, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, workflows on September 18, 2009 | Comments Off
Last year I wrote about designing a cost-effective HD edit suite and compared three budget ranges for both an Avid and an FCP suite. This year I’ve put together one updated spreadsheet (download here). It’s interesting to see that over the course of this past year, some of the numbers have come down and you [...]
NAB 2009 – 10 goodies you might have missed
Posted in business, editing, graphics, media, video, tagged editing, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, graphics, NAB, video on April 26, 2009 | Comments Off
By now you’ve probably caught up on all big announcements from NAB 2009. If not, then hop over to Videography or DV for the NAB coverage supplied by my colleagues and me during our blogs and wrap-up stories for the magazine. In this post I’d like to focus on 10 relatively inexpensive items that will [...]
