Sunday, September 14, 2008

Adobe CS4 Just Around the Corner

Richard Harrington | 09/14- 09:57 PM

Want to find out everything new in Adobe Creative Suite 4? Trust me… there’s some really cool things coming. Adobe has an invitation out to view their Web broadcast on September 23rd. But you do need to go to the sign-up page at www.adobe.com/go/somethingbrilliant.

By the way… I am going to be releasing something very special on the 23rd as well as a “thank you” to all my viewers. Be sure to stick around and keep an eye out. 

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Offline To Online For An HD Project

Kevin P. McAuliffe | 09/06- 09:32 PM

After you get over completing your first “online”, you will be finishing all your projects in record time.

I thought that for this next article, I would take a look at a growing trend for editors these days, and that is the “One Man Shop”.  What I mean by that is that these days, with systems coming down in price, independent business owners/editors are wearing many hats, and one of those hats is that of the offline/online editor.  Let’s take a look at how an editor can offline a 1080i HD project, and then carry it through to the online.

Friday, September 05, 2008

Too Much Data!

Art Adams | 09/05- 02:07 PM

In a world where tape is disappearing, how do I inexpensively backup all my data shoots?

I’m going into a RED shoot this weekend and I’ve realized my hard drives are full. Now what?

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Avid Hidden Gems - Part 1

Steve Hullfish | 09/04- 07:38 AM

Tips for Avid Editors

One of the most useful things I ever did as I began to master the Avid user interface was – I know this will be hard to believe – read the manual. Actually I read EVERY word of EVERY manual. The folks at the Avid Technical Publications department can confirm this, because I sent them many pages of corrections for which they sent me an actual one-of-a-kind “Deputy Tech Pubs” badge. Geeky? Yes. Should YOU actually read the manuals? Of course not! That’s what this series is intended to prevent!

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Aperture 2.1.1 Won’t Preview Raw Photos

Adam Wilt | 08/26- 11:49 PM

If you shoot raw stills, and use Aperture, don’t update to 2.1.1.

I use Apple’s Aperture to import, organize, and do simple processing on digital pix. I just updated to 2.1.1, and now the image import window won’t show raw images—only dashed rectangles (JPEGS still show up properly). The raw images’ metadata is shown correctly, except for the consistently goofball pixel size of 128x128. If I select raw pix blindly and import them, they show up properly once imported, but importing them blindly ain’t fun.

Aperture 2.1 didn’t have this bug; my Nikon D200 and D300 images showed up fine in the image import window. And I’m not the only one with the problem; Apple’s discussion lists are filled with similarly unhappy upgraders, mostly those using Nikons, but I saw Ricohs mentioned as well.

I can confirm that the bug afflicts Aperture 2.1.1 on both 10.4.11 and 10.5.4.

Solutions? I haven’t seen any evidence of a solution, but several workarounds have been suggested:

• stick with 2.1,
• roll back to 2.1 using Time Machine,
• use Image Capture (or Finder drag ‘n’ drop) to read in photos,
• shoot JPEGs.

Fortunately for me, I usually shoot JPEGs, otherwise I’d be hosed! Read my tale of woe, and maybe you won’t get hosed the same way.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

The Magic of Conform in Soundtrack Pro 2

Kevin P. McAuliffe | 08/23- 05:39 PM

This feature allows editors to make as many changes as they want, with little or no impact on the mix.

One problem that audio engineers run into all the time is sneaky editors who make changes to their “locked” offline while the engineer is doing their mix. Then, a major “patch” job ends up happening where the mix that is currently being working on, needs to be married with the new, revised audio that the editor has just output. Needless to say, it’s a major headache. Well, not anymore. With the awsome new Conform feature in Soundtrack Pro 2, editors can make as many changes to their edit as they want, with little or no impact on the mix that is being done in Soundtrack Pro. Let’s take a look at how this works.

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