“Will Apple Release a New Final Cut Pro Studio and What Will Be New?”

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Here’s my uneducated guess (meaning, I’ve been careful NOT to ask Apple about it). All is based on what Apple has done the near past and what I think makes sense for them to do. It is NOT my opinion of what would be good for the industry, the user or even myself… Just what […]

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Quicktips 2011 Day 29: Unlocking bins in Avid Unity

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This reader submitted Quicktip comes from Brendan McCullough. This is a tip for when you encounter a locked bin while working on an Avid Unity system. I don’t work on a Unity so I haven’t ever encountered this myself but it looks like a nice, sneaky little tip. I would say fair warning though to […]

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A 4-Step Guide to Producing Crowdsourced Video

A 4-Step Guide to Producing Crowdsourced Video. Did the crowdsourced concert films byRadiohead and theBeastie Boys ever inspire you to produce something similarly community-driven and creative? Because they definitely had that effect on marketing author and speaker David Meerman Scott. In January 2011, David was the keynote speaker atMarketingSherpa’s Email Summit in Las Vegas. His […]

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Light Painting WiFi

Some friends recently shared with me on Facebook a novel application of light painting: Creating a four meter tall bar that displays an 80 point bar graph of WiFi signal strength, and then walking through various urban settings to visualize the “strata” of communication signals. The video above reveals both the process and the result […]

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In Search of Gold Standards’ for the Semantic Web

In Search of ‘Gold Standards’ for the Semantic Web AI3:::Adaptive Information. Wikipedia + UMBEL + Friends May Offer One Approach In thefirst part of this series we argued for the importance ofreference structures to provide the structures and vocabularies to guide interoperability on thesemantic Web. The argument was made that these reference structures are akin […]

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The Secret Art of Slating: 25 Tips to Help You Slate Like a Pro

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Slate training was my introduction to one of the most important tenets of filmmaking: always think of the next person down the production line. In the case of slating, this means taking care of the poor assistant editor who has to sync and track dailies based on your notes and your slating technique. Just the […]

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