Academy Award-Nominated Film Editor, Robert Dalva

February 26, 2011, 09:02 AM

http://diginmag.com/robert-dalva.php

Robert Dalva is an Academy Award-nominated film editor, as well as a Hollywood cinematographer and director. He has worked on films such as "The Black Stallion (1979)", "The Black Stallion Returns (1983)," "Jumanji (1995)," "October Sky (1999)," "Jurassic Park III (2001)," "Hidalgo (2004)," and "Touching Home" (2008). I caught up with Robert while he was working in Montreal on a new film called "Immortals," which is directed by Tarsem Singh. Robert opened up about working with his long time...

Employing the Art of Editing, My Impressions pt 4

February 26, 2011, 08:52 AM

http://quintessential.posterous.com/in-the-cut-emp...

I'm dedicating this fourth and final part of my review to a few highlights, summations and notes compiled by myself and the person who told me about the event: @EditorLiam. Liam's "notes" will be in the form of tweets, with his permission, which he sent out during the event. In case you're wondering, yes, I have taken different approaches to writing each of these four parts of my review.

Graphs and Charts in After Effects, Part 2

February 25, 2011, 06:23 PM

http://library.creativecow.net/mize_rob/AE_graphs_...

In Part 2 of Graphs and Charts in After Effects, Rob Mize shows how to use particles (both Trapcode Particular and Particle World) to expand your creative options when generating and animating Bar Graphs, Line Graphs and Pie Charts in 3D space.

After Effects Advance Animation Techniques

February 25, 2011, 06:22 PM

http://charlesheureaux.com/2011/02/25/how-to-after...

Continuing last weeks tutorial, today’s video will highlight animating inside a 3D space. Now most of what you will learn are branches of basic animation techniques in the previous tutorial. Also I’d like to mention, I am testing the waters with a video I put inside the tutorial. It is a special 40 second video that hypes up the tutorial even more than it should be. This is all in good fun and I’d like to know what you all think about both the tutorial and special video.

Ki Pro Mini - The Results

February 25, 2011, 06:21 PM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/4323/ki-pro-mini...

We decided that today (Feb 24) would be a good day to shoot some test footage with our recently required Ki Pro Mini. The weather is clear, cold and windy. Okay, cold for us on the west coast but for anyone visiting it's just cool-ish. We went back to the same spot to shoot that we used when I bought my first EX1 back in January 2008.

Avid Elevates Home Video Creation

February 25, 2011, 06:19 PM

http://www.videoguys.com/Blog/PL/0xecfe5ccb66e5ada...

New Final Cut Pro on the Way

February 25, 2011, 03:08 PM

http://nofilmschool.com/2011/02/apple-final-cut-pr...

Apple (finally) demonstrated the new version of Final Cut Pro to industry insiders this week, and because everyone who saw it is under a Non Disclosure Agreement, we won’t be hearing any details about it soon (until sometime around NAB, I’m guessing — though Apple is not listed as an exhibitor, they will likely stage their own event). Without going into specifics, however, the new FCP is being called "the biggest overhaul to Final Cut Pro since the original version was created over 10 year...

Avid Upgrades Media Composer Yet Again, to v. 5.5

February 25, 2011, 03:07 PM

http://www.videoguys.com/Blog/PL/0x2c39a7b1ab33583...

When talking software I think of new versions in two ways: updates and upgrades. Updates are more like the smaller "dot" releases that take a piece of software from version 2.0 to 2.0.1 or 2.1. Then there’s upgrades that move a full version from 2.0 to 3.0. Somewhere in between there’s upgradey-updates that move from, say, 5.0 to 5.5. Plus there’s the determining factor of what major features are added. The more and bigger they are, the more likely the release can be thought of as an upgra...

Cutting the TV DRAMA

February 25, 2011, 03:06 PM

http://www.cutaway.co.za/post/3505299130/cutting-t...

The series is about 4 female friends and their lives. What is great about the series is that it is not social realism - even though it deals with heavy issues it is set in a glamorous reality. The series was directed by Amanda Lane, Catharine Cooke, Robyn Aronstam, Nonny Malete. What was so great is that other than Amanda, all these directors where first time directors.

Quicktips 2011 Day 25: Two Avid tips for Friday

February 25, 2011, 12:45 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/st...

Today we have two Avid Media Composer Quicktips that come to us from Ra-ey Saleh, a Symphony Online Editor working in Sydney. There’s two tips here, one for the ever popular Avid Paint effect and one great tip for playing back the edit while in Color Correction mode.