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 [...]
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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
The new Final Cut Studio
Posted in Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, editing, tagged Apple Color, editing, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio on October 4, 2009 | Comments Off
With little fanfare, Apple simply announced the new Final Cut Studio on their website, ending months of speculation in the online communities. Apple had prepped for this moment, however, with ready-made, free Ripple Training and Lynda.com tutorials, online documentation (no more paper manuals) and a number of extra downloads.
The new Final Cut Studio (not version [...]
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 [...]
Reliving the Zoetrope tradition – Walter Murch and Tetro
Posted in Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, directing, editing, film student, films, tagged directing, editing, films, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, Francis Ford Coppola, Walter Murch on August 1, 2009 | Comments Off
Age can sometimes be an impediment to inspired filmmaking, but Francis Ford Coppola, who recently turned 70, has tackled his latest endeavor with the enthusiasm and creativity of a young film school graduate. The film Tetro opened June 11th in New York and Los Angeles and will enter wider distribution in the weeks that follow. [...]
