Apple iMacs As I noted in my previous blog, the iMacs are fast becoming my machine of choice and the newest models are even more impressive than the two we have running. At this time, barring any major announcement from Apple that changes my mind, my plan is to replace the remaining 3 Mac [...]
Winds from Sandy are whipping outside, though nothing like my friends are getting this up the East Coast. For those of us here in Georgia, Sandy brought a major blast of winter in the form of low 30 degree temps. So on this first evening of a lit fireplace, here’s some updates and random [...]
UPDATED: 6/25: VTR success and Workstations at the bottom. A continuation on my “Cautionary Tales of an FCP Switcher.” Getting Caught Up on our Series As mentioned at the end of the original article, we moved our PBS series over the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 with the reasoning that if we had to flatten a [...]
By now you’ve heard that Wes Plate has joined the Adobe Product Marketing Team. For those who might not know exactly who this guy is, he’s been “the guy” in the industry for years who has made various production tools talk to each other. And not just a simple, “move parts of my projects into [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
EXCLUSIVE! (always wanted to say that!) When I get an email from Dan Desmet at Flanders Scientific asking “do you have any time available? I’d like to show you something” I always MAKE the time. One of the awesome benefits of being literally 15 minutes away from FSI is we get to see a lot [...]
Why use a single Video Scopes window to display four tiny scopes? Use full sized scopes! In this quick Final Cut Pro Tip, Walter Biscardi, Jr. shows you just show simple it is.
So NAB is rapidly approaching and as par for the course, we know nothing about Apple’s plans for the event. We know they don’t have a booth planned but will they announce anything at all? Last year we had a completely underwhelming (you might say embarrassing) presentation by Apple at the SuperMeet. What will we [...]