Tag Archives: Post-production

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Redbox: a ‘greener’ render box

The Redbox is Pixellexis’s brand new parallel processing unit, designed for cutting down intensive render cycle times. Whether it be for post-production, visual effects, and compression or decompression, the Redbox is being billed as a greener, more eco-friendly render solution, … more »

Mediocrity – Mike Jones follows up

From Mike Jones Digital Basin: The Culture of Editors – is FCP to blame for mediocrity? Mike Jones of the Mike Jones Digital Basin has written a very well thought out follow up to my piece What’s Wrong With the … more »

Sports films thrive on Internet – Variety

Sports films thrive on Internet – Entertainment News, Anne Thompson, Media – Variety CinemaTech linked today to a piece at Veriety about sports doceumentaries. While sports documentries themselves might not be of interest this article is interesting in that niche … more »

Plugin Manager 1.7.3 update for Apple pro apps

Apple just recently released a Plugin Manager 1.7.3 update for its professional applications. The official (and uh, succinct) description states: This update improves reliability for Apple’s professional applications and is recommended for all users of Final Cut Studio, Final Cut … more »

What's wrong with the young FCP editor?

I was recently reading a blog post about an Avid editor’s experience with Final Cut Pro. There were both good points and bad points from this user’s point of view and a number of things he did and didn’t like. … more »

What’s wrong with the young FCP editor?

I was recently reading a blog post about an Avid editor’s experience with Final Cut Pro. There were both good points and bad points from this user’s point of view and a number of things he did and didn’t like. … more »

VideoSpec: drag-and-drop video analysis

VideoSpec is a utility for analyzing QuickTime videos via a simple drag-and-drop approach. Once it’s launched and loaded, the app provides a full spectrum of general, video, and audio parameters and data. Compatible with both PowerPC and Intel Mac systems, … more »

Avid's New Thinking

It’s Monday morning, March 17, and it looks like Avid has begun what is the first day of the rest of its life. Today they’ve announced the first of what I hope will be many changes in the direction the … more »

Avid’s New Thinking

It’s Monday morning, March 17, and it looks like Avid has begun what is the first day of the rest of its life. Today they’ve announced the first of what I hope will be many changes in the direction the … more »

Scene Detector for Final Cut Pro detects edits

Scene Detector is a little utility for automatic detection of edits in a Final Cut Pro project. It works as follows: Scene detection is performed using only frame image data, no timecode or audio metadata is used. It opens Final … more »