Kicking the tires on Avid Media Access Part 1
When Avid announced Media Composer 3.5 and the new Avid Media Access architecture the first thing I wondered was...
The Quicktime Conundrum
There’s nothing like waking up in the morning and realizing that your chief marketing tool is probably driving away...
Fun clips for the end of a long agency edit day
As we sat for a long while at the end of the edit day recently waiting for either an...
The joy of Quantel’s RED workflow via Automatic Duck
It seems like only a year ago that doing post-production on the RED ONE camera was a confusing imbroglio...
The History of SmoothCam
As they say, it's not the destination that's important, it's the journey, and that can be said about a...
Avid Media Composer 3.5 update is INTEL ONLY
If you haven’t heard, on Monday Avid announced and released an update to Media Composer (as well as Symphony...
My War Against DI
Well, I guess I should rephrase that to my war against the blatant misuse of the term “DI”. As...
A video only an editor or engineer could love
Bars & Tones from Andr© Chocron on Vimeo.
Chat with the editor of Slumdog Millionaire
It’s no secret that Avid editing systems and Avid technology had a hand in a lot of this years...
3 Ways to Get RED Footage into Final Cut Pro
The RED camera and its proprietary .R3D, file-based workflow has been a subject of much discussion, speculation and frustration...