Paul Clements - First Impressions of the Foundry’s Storm

Several weeks ago The Foundry announced a new “revolutionary RED workflow system” called Storm. The product made its public debut at IBC and will be available as a public beta in November. Around February 2011 it will go on sale for $375 and should expand beyond RED in coming versions. Paul Clements is a UK-based DIT who has been Alpha testing Storm. He posted a detailed first impressions article on Reduser that’s a great overview of what Storm has to offer. I asked Paul if I could repost the article here on PVC.

Can a Mac mini handle dual-screen HD editing?

At work, I have a big, snorting, hairy beast of a MacPro, but at home I want something small, quiet, and abstemious with the power—yet still capable of dual-screen HD editing with reasonable playback performance when I need it. I’ve tested two Mac minis, with GeForce 9400M and 320M GPUs, alongside my older 15” MacBook Pro with a Radeon x1600 GPU, and the results are… interesting. They may be applicable to recent MacBooks with the same GPUs, too.

Adobe Air Runtime for Android

Our sister site, Apps4Phones, has a piece and video about using Flash Professional CS5 to develop Adobe Air programs and publish directly to the Android Market.

Master Multicamera Techniques is a must have book for editors

Quite a few months ago I had a long conversation with editor Mitch Jacobson about multicam editing. The point of this conversation was to, hopefully, provide some good information on multicam editing for what was then his upcoming book about the topic. That book has finally gone into print and I picked up a copy not long ago and began reading it. Besides the much appreciated contributing writer credit that Mitch gave me (and a lot of other people who helped pull the book together) the book is a treasure chest of all things multicam.

What if we start all over?

What would the production industry be like if we had no existing industry: no established production business, no guilds, no agreements, no contracts, no established workflows. How would we go about establishing something like broadcast television so people could still make decent middle class salaries, be creative and do what they love to do.

In our longest show ever, Philip Hodgetts and I discuss this concept with special guest with Howard Brock on episode 11 of The Terence & Philip Show.

Export via Sorensen Squeeze 6 from the FCP timeline

Just the other day I needed to export mp3 audio files from several long Final Cut Pro timelines to send to a client for review. There was no reason to send video and they wanted to get small audio files that didn’t have to be of great quality attached to an email. What better format than mp3! With that I remembered that Sorenson Squeeze 6 (now at version 6.5) installs an Export Using QuickTime Conversion option in FCP. After making the mp3s I thought that a reminder of this would make a good blog post.

Kicking the tires on DaVinci Resolve for Mac

DaVinci Resolve for Mac has begun shipping en masse and is now getting into the hands of a lot of end users. Apparently I talked up the right people as I stalked the Blackmagic Design booth at NAB as they sent over a copy for testing and review. I wanted to install Resolve right away but a busy week of editing meant I didn’t have to time gut the office machine to get the cards in for a proper Resolve configuration. After looking at the install discs sitting around for a few days I couldn’t stand it any more and took them home to install there and at least get a taste for what Resolve for Mac is like. But my home Mac Pro doesn’t really meet the recommended system requirements ....

Broadcast Quality HD Production for Beginners:

In this five-part series, we will look at a real world case study of a facility that took on the daunting task of upgrading to HD. These parts will cover:

• Part 1: Getting Started - assessing your goals, making overall decisions with regards to cabling and formats, designing your new system.
• Part 2: Setting Up The Studio - building the signal chain from cameras to switcher to monitor to recorder.
• Part 3: Recording the Audio and Video - setup, monitoring, recording, and transferring files, including particular attention to the audio.
• Part 4: Character Generation - including preparing your slides in PowerPoint and converting them into nice overlays.
• Part 5: Editing and Distributing - from acquisition through uploading files for the internet.

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