Grass Valley Names New CEO, Management Team

January 17, 2011, 06:05 PM

http://blog.devoncroft.com/2011/01/17/grass-valley...

Grass Valley said today that it has named Alain Andreoli as the company’s new president and CEO. The announcement comes just a few weeks after Francisco Partners finalized the deal to buy Grass Valley from Technicolor. Andreoli was most recently an Operating Partner at Francisco Partners, and prior to that has held leadership positions at several technology companies including president of Sun Microsystems Europe.

Rick Young: Final Cut Pro tips and tricks

January 17, 2011, 06:05 PM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/features/?articleid...

30 minutes of Final Cut Pro tips and tricks, presented by Rick Young, live at MacVideo Expo October 2010. Covering everything from easy shortcuts to workflows involving masking, keyframing and audio editing. This presentation offers something for everyone from the beginner to the advanced user.

Encoding with Sorenson Media

January 17, 2011, 06:04 PM

http://www.macvideo.tv/encoding/interviews/?articl...

Best known for Sorenson Squeeze, the company Sorenson Media has been enabling video technology on the Mac since the early days of QuickTime. In this interview, President and CEO, Peter Csathy, gives background to the company and details the current offerings and direction for Sorenson Media moving forward.

Blackmagic Design Announces UltraScope Update

January 17, 2011, 12:23 PM

https://www.aotg.com/blackmagic-design-announces-ultrascope-update/

This morning Blackmagic Design announced a new software update for Blackmagic Design’s UltraScope and Pocket UltraScope. Enhancements to the SD, HD and 3Gb/s HD-SDI waveform monitoring solutions include new video gamut, audio error logging and customizable profiles. UltraScope v1.5 is available now for both Mac and PC platforms and will help users save time and money, and improve quality control throughout their workflows.

Good Editing is NOT Invisible

January 17, 2011, 10:02 AM

http://www.mikejones.tv/journal/2011/1/17/good-edi...

Montage, Collage, Decoupage – Podcast

January 17, 2011, 09:38 AM

http://blogs.aftrs.edu.au/screenculture/?p=667

Compositing and the modern mise en scene – This is the title of a presentation i made at the recent Film History conference at the University of New South Wales. I recorded the lecture and have posted it here as a podcast. It explores the conceptual and compositional paradigm of layered CGI compositing and attempts to comprehend the unique qualities of digital compositing as an architectural process.

Good Editing is NOT Invisible

January 17, 2011, 09:35 AM

https://www.aotg.com/good-editing-is-not-invisible-2/

Karen Pearlman talks about how Good Editing is NOT invisible.

Virtual XDCAM

January 17, 2011, 09:34 AM

http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/2011/virtual-xdcam.h...

I noticed a thread on the Avid-L2 about file-based delivery, specifically in this case it was NBC wanting XDCAM file delivery (MXF 50Mb/s HD files) – Bourke from Videotoolshed offered some great information about using Avid’s Export to Device function to get an XDCAM-format MXF file suitable for delivery.

Lightworks editing software is free and...

January 16, 2011, 04:07 PM

http://www.mikejones.tv/journal/2011/1/17/lightwor...

I suspect it’s fair to say that there’s a huge swathe of filmmakers (in the broadest sense of those making creative screen content) under the age 30 who, if asked to name the significant professional editing systems of the post-production world would struggle to name anything beyond Final Cut Pro and Avid (and in a great many cases they will know the later in name only). This of course is in spite of the fact that there are a...

The Best Effect is One the Viewer Doesn’t See

January 16, 2011, 01:17 PM

http://blogs.nppa.org/editfoundry/2011/01/15/the-b...

I’m a big fan of NFL films. The stories they create are simply visual candy. I wanted to create a film effect for the story on Thunder in the spirit of NFL films. I wanted to create my own look and feel as well. Every clip in this story is affected. It’s not flying boxes. It’s not crazy wipes. It’s not picture in picture. It’s something WAY more subtle. I’m creating an entire feel for the story. What I’m doing is never distracting to the viewer which is what editing is all about.