Well, I got burned by a very large “gotcha” when exporting a project for color grading in Apple Color. The project was a 10 minute story for a broadcast series, all shot P2, 1080i / 29.97. I edited in an AJA 1080i / 29.97 timeline with all the native material. At the end of the [...]
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At the urging of a friend, I got back to work on these Transitioning videos as he is now jumping into the Adobe Premiere Pro application. As I’ve noted in my blogs, for the Final Cut Pro editor migrating over to Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5, the transition really could not be much easier. I [...]
UPDATED WITH ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE BOTTOM! UPDATE 2 - New Photo showing relative size of the panel at the very bottom. Thanks to Tangent Designs for letting me introduce this to you guys. I saw the prototype at NAB this past April as of today, Tangent introduces the new Element Control Surface. As [...]
I’ve run into this issue so many times, practically on a weekly basis, so once and for all, 1080i / 60i is NOT 60fps. That is 60 frames per second. Never was, never will be, it’s just not going to happen. Let’s take a look shall we? First off, the “i” in the number. [...]
By now most of you have heard that Apple has re-introduced Final Cut Studio 3 for sale after a lukewarm reception to Final Cut Pro X. Well, they sort of have re-introduced it. As stated in this MacRumors article, you must call the order directly in to Apple. It is not available through any standard [...]
UPDATED 9/6/11 at the end of the article. Today we had our incredibly awesome friend Ron Anderson in the shop to test out the workflow from both Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro using a native workflows into Resolve. The man is a colorist extraordinaire who has gone back to his roots on Davinci [...]
As many of you are aware we’re well into Post Production on the new PBS Series “This American Land” by Executive Producer Gary Strieker. Today I was scheduled to edit a story and once again we ran into an issue with XDCAM footage that did not include everything required in the BPAV folder for FCP [...]
This past April while at NAB I got an interesting phone call from Chris Rose of Tangent Devices. “Where are you?” “I’m in the South Hall why?” “Come meet us outside, we want to show you something.” And just like that, I’m walking out the door to find them. I found Chris along with Andy [...]
Ok, so Digital Asset Management is the topic. Some of you might be thinking “well that’s not nearly as sexy as having the ‘four A’s’ on stage at the same time like you did last month.” No, quite honestly it’s not but if anything, this month is even MORE important to the stability and longevity [...]
The blog that appears on these pages is intended to offer the points of view of BCM Principal Walter Biscardi, Jr., and some colleagues on what we see in the world of multimedia production and whatever else we feel like writing about. From the response we’ve gotten from many folks, it seems you enjoy what [...]