for all the award show editors out there...

January 7, 2011, 11:06 AM

http://blog.youdownwithfcp.com/2011/01/06/for-all-...

For a chuckle check out this Award show trailer

Avid Honored Again by National Academy of TV Arts

January 7, 2011, 11:05 AM

http://www.avid.com/US/press-room/Avid-Honored-Wit...

Alpha Channels : Creative COW : Photoshop Tutorial

January 7, 2011, 11:03 AM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/4059/alpha-chann...

In the Photoshop tutorial from Creative COW, you'll learn how to make an alpha channel based upon the luminance in an image. Alpha channels allow you to store transparency in a graphic. This is part of a series of Photoshop tutorials from www.creativecow.net. Be sure to check out my two Photoshop books – Photoshop for Video and Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS5.

Creating a Custom Sequence 2: The Magic Bullet

January 7, 2011, 11:00 AM

http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Creati...

In the second part of this Premiere Pro CS5+ tutorial series Andrew Devis shows how to create a new sequence which will exactly match your footage even if you have no idea what size, frame rate or pixel aspect ratio (PAR) it may be. With the use of a single drag and drop action a new sequence that matches your footage precisely can be created.

Revisiting My Friend F13

January 6, 2011, 01:17 PM

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

While working on a job this week I had tons of shots to log and organize. While doing this I realized how much I was pasting the same words over and over and over and over. No problem, I mapped my floating keyboard key F13 to paste. That meant I didn’t have to keep hitting the two key combination of command + v over and over again. You wouldn’t think it would make that much difference but it does. It reminded me of an old 2008 Editblog post: My Friend F13.

Tenth Annual FCPUG San Francisco SuperMeet

January 6, 2011, 10:52 AM

http://supermeetsf11-esli.eventbrite.com/

Friday, January 28, 2011 from 4:00 PM - 11:00 PM (PT)

Interview with Glee Editor Joe Leonard Pt. 2

January 6, 2011, 10:50 AM

https://www.aotg.com/interview-with-glee-editor-joe-leonard-pt-2/

Part two of my interview with Joe Leonard, editor of Glee and director of How I Got Lost.

Episode 46 - Interview with Joe Leonard (Glee, How I Got Lost) - Part 2 of 2

January 6, 2011, 09:45 AM

https://www.aotg.com/episode-46-interview-with-joe-leonard-glee-how-i-got-lost-part-2-of-2/

Film Editing News and Interviews

My Best Product for 2010

January 6, 2011, 09:35 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=325...

Put simply, Plural Eyes syncs up your rushes for you: you can use it to sync up mulitple cameras or sync a main camera to audio which has been recoded separately. Using the camera mic. as a guide track you can sync up wild sound to picture much easier than it ever was in the days in Nagras and mag-tape.

Chinese New Year

January 6, 2011, 09:33 AM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3330

"Gong xi, gong xi" (yay, congrats) as my Taiwan-born friend wrote me. Michael Wiese Productions, my publisher, has informed me that, after months of negotiating, Film Editing: Great Cuts Every Filmmaker and Movie Lover Must Know will be translated into Mandarin. In the next 12-18 months I will have the translation in my hot little hands.