Shot Logger Pro

Here is one last iPhone RealTime video I shot at NAB 2010 that wouldn’t upload via the 3G connection. It’s Shot Logger Pro from Red Lightning Software. It uses a Nintendo Wii remote as one way to trigger the start / stop logging process on your shoot. You can tag and rate shots on set and then bring the logged data into Final Cut Pro. Sorry about the audio quality on this one, it’s not the best but I looks like a cool product.

Get for Final Cut Pro enables phonetic searching of media

Above is a short iPhone-originated RealTime video of a new Final Cut Pro companion application called get, from AV3 software.

The application runs alongside FCP and indexes all your media on a particular hard drive or specified folder by listening to the audio and then allowing the editor to search for terms in the get application interface. There you can preview, scrub around media and jump to each search result. Questionable name aside (and is it: Get, get or ‘get’ ?) the product is very cool.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5: Better, Faster, Bigger and Especially Faster

With the announcement of Adobe’s new version of their Creative Suite, CS5, they are delivering a new version of Premiere Pro. This review is based on a beta version of Premiere Pro CS5 but from my time spent working with the program it was much more stable that much of my Premiere Pro CS4 experience, and very fast. I think it’s safe to say that this beta version of the software that Adobe delivered to the press ahead of its April 12 launch was a nearly finished version, minus some documentation, help files and a few features here and there.

I don’t think this piece should be considered a full review but rather my thoughts and experiences as I worked with the application on and off for a couple of weeks before the official April 12 announcement. While I kicked the tires on many of the new features my main objective was to see if I, as an experienced Avid and Final Cut Pro editor, could sit down in front of Premiere Pro CS5, go to work and find value outside of what I already have. I have dabbled with PPro CS4 so I was familiar with PPro as a whole. In short, there’s some things to really like about this new version. Realtime performance and the support for native formats is unrivaled, especially when coupled with the right hardware. But there are some things, simple things, that were frustrating.

Avid introduces Media Composer 5

See that image above? That’s some crazy new timeline stuff that might be happening in the new version of Avid Media Composer. Avid has kicked off NAB 2010 with some really big news for editors. They held a press event today (Sunday) to announce Media Composer 5. Unfortunately I was on the airplane flying in at the time and missed it but the news is good.

Media Composer 5: direct support for QuickTime .mov files, native RED .R3D files, direct manipulation of the timeline without going into Segment mode, first ever support for 3rd party hardware from Matrox.

Oh, and Avid has also entered into an agreement with Euphonix to buy them.

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