2010 was one of those years that I think we will look back at as a key turning point in our industry. While HD camcorders have been around for 5 years, it was in 2010 that we hit the tipping point that made HD editing a reality for everyone. Many professional videographers migrated to HD […]
This Reader Quicktip comes from Final Cut Coach. It involves using the markers and the extend marker option in Final Cut Pro. Plus there’s discussion of using markers to makes subclips. Final Cut Coach also has its own site that looks to be a growing Final Cut Pro tutorial site. Here’s the tip: I like […]
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Day 2 of the Tech Retreat covered the year in review, CES, cloud storage, broadcasting, pool feed audio, content protection, transcoding, stereo subtitles, and more… These Tech Retreat posts are barely-edited stream-of-consciousness note-taking; there’s no other way to grab all this info in a timely manner, get it published, and still get enough sleep for […]
Don’t you hate the argument of whether photography is art or just a job? No other medium can be perceived and utilized in so many ways and garner such a diverse audience. Billboards and Super Bowl commercials. Or galleries and art books. I still find some art-only photographers disparage those who make money from their […]
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This new study by David Bordwell provides fascinating data on where viewers look when watching a film. Researchers used infrared pupil tracking to correlate attention to what was happening in the film, and their findings will surely be of interest to DoPs, Directors, and Editors alike… “…analysis of how the staging in this scene tightly […]
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” ~Aristotle Some time back I met with some friends of mine for coffee. One of my buddies tossed out this quote he’d recently read in a runner’s magazine of all places. He thought it might spur some challenging conversation. We […]
The Web is Changing: HTML5 and Native Media Support | UX Booth. If you’re a web designer, you’ve almost certainly heard of HTML5 by now. The next big step in the HTML standard, HTML5 has been in the works since 2004, and brings a lot of changes to the web. Today, I’d simply like to […]
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Publishers Need to Take Charge of the eBook Market Word of Pie. I wrote last month a couple of posts on the problem with eBooks. Both covered a couple of points, thefirst focused on the prices and features of eBooks while thesecond focused on dealing with existing book collections, what I call the Reread Dilemma, […]
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