Editing
by PVC Staff
Monday, May 12, 2008
The Compleat Idiot’s Guide to RED Post on a Budget
Written by a complete post idiot, these RED tips may make your life slightly easier
This is by no means a definitive manual on how to post RED footage. Rather, this is how I managed to work with R3D footage while creating a spec spot using the RED. Your mileage may vary. I expect to be flamed repeatedly regarding my handling of this shoot’s post process, but from the ashes I hope to extract some knowledge as to how to do it all better next time.
We did not record any sound on the shoot, so that part of the post process is not addressed. Yay!
For behind-the-scenes action, see Adam Wilt’s post on the shoot itself.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Adobe’s NAB Sneak Peaks
Another NAB has come and gone and it appears everyone at Adobe survived the crazy/great week. Well, I’m at home nursing the traditional post-NAB cold, and my feet took days to get their feeling back, but that’s all just par for the course. It was a great show for us--while overall attendance was definitely down, our booth was packed. I had the opportunity to get to know a lot of customers and partners all at once, which is the ultimate point of going at all.
During the show I had an opportunity to share a little sneak peak of some of the things Adobe is working on in our technology labs. We wanted to pull back the curtain just bit and show a little of what we are working on because it’s important for you to know where we’re going. You obviously choose the tools company you want to work with based on what they have available today. But because you invest a lot of time, energy, and money into adopting a toolset you’re also interested in where they’re going tomorrow. And so when you look at Adobe, you want to know we’re not just committed today, but that we’re thinking about the challenges you’re just starting to face, or will be facing soon.
If you weren’t able to make NAB, or were at NAB and missed my presentation, no worries. We just posted a bunch of our theater demos to the new Adobe TV site and my technology preview can be found in the video pro section. I won’t give away everything I show, but if you’re an editor at least watch until I get to the speech analysis part. Good times. Then again, the last thing I showed was definitely the most popular. How’s that for a tease? Enjoy!
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Recently Added: Elements for Editors
A simple column for motion graphics artists new to working with editors.
When we work alone, it’s easy to ask for what we need - we just get it ourselves. However, when you’re creating elements for someone else you need to be a bit more attentive, anticipating their questions and needs (unless you’re prepared to get calls at 2 AM asking just what you thought you were doing). Therefore, several years ago we wrote this column discussing some of the things a motion graphics artist should keep in mind when they create elements for editors, such as alpha channels, editing handles, and creating templates for lower thirds and the such (should the client suddenly change things on them during the edit session). If you are new, or a student hoping to get into this field (and to be known as the one who was helpful, rather than the one who caused problems), spend a couple minutes to review these tips.
Click here to jump straight to “Elements for Editors.”
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Snapshots - NAB 2008 Day 2
Codex Digital, SpeedGrade, Tangent, SI2K, and Nila
Codex Digital Portable and disk pack
Highlights of my walking around the show floor on Tuesday…
Codex Digital showed working versions of their Portable digital cine recorder. $44K gets you the lunchbox plus a three-hour drive pack, and the superb Codex user interface.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Locking HDMI cables!
Finally, a non-self-ejecting HDMI cable
Left: normal HDMI cable. Right: locking HDMI cable. Note the cantilevered paddle with two tiny retention hooks.
A colleague and I were discussing the sorry state of the physical HDMI connection; we call it a “self ejecting” technology. HDMI cables fall out of HDMI sockets with surprising ease. Fortunately there’s now a solution to this problem: a locking plug that works with any HDMI socket.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
RED? Or Cyan?
Why the RED’s highlights went cyan and dark, and how to fix ‘em.
In my unfair comparison of three cameras, I found that RED’s overexposed highlights went cyan and got darker than surrounding, non-overexposed areas. Here’s why it happened, and how to fix it—it’s an easy fix, but you’ll appreciate it more if you see what happens if you don’t use it!
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