Saturday, June 27, 2009

More info from Media Pro Camp

I had a chance to briefly chat with Philip Hodgetts of Intelligent Assistance last weekend when I attended the Media Pro Camp in Santa Ana. I sat in on a great talk he lead on pre-compression techniques. There was also info about his new utilities for Final Cut Pro and new book that will only released digitally as a pdf. Be sure to check out his blog.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Sound Garden

Ok, I'm going to start doing micro-posts so I can update more often instead of taking weeks at a time. This brief post is to add a little bit more info to the list of music libraries link that I posted a few weeks ago.
Music is often a pain for a lot of producers that don't have access to a production library or want to augment their existing library. I'm excited that the custom scoring Sonic Fire Pro 5 software now operates as a plug-in in Final Cut Pro. A lot of Reality TV is scored using this application. Their site is very informative and there are a series of extensive tutorials there explaining how to use it. Oliver Peters from the Digitalfilms blog has a great review on it.

Albatat Muse on the other hand, takes it to the next level by using "artificial intelligence to measure select elements of a moving picture and then composes music to match those elements". Um...thank God they also have tutorials.

But for producers and editors that want the traditional manual controls and need a quick a la carte solution Audio Jungle might work. It may turn into the MySpace of music loops if enough audio producers sign up. This is great for augmenting the existing loop libraries in Garageband, and Soundtrack Pro or for fleshing out sound design in Logic or Pro Tools.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Splice Vine - June Links

Ok, it's harder than I thought it was going to be coming up with thoughtful and engaging posts every week. So I'll take the easy way out. Links. Once a month I'll put out links to the latest info I've found on the web relating to film, video and new media. This will buy me a little more time to come up with long brilliant posts. Yeah, right.


It looks like YouTube is bringing YouTube to the TV.

This Twitter Job Search Engine has come out just in the nick of time.

Michael Critz has a great post on his site about a new app called Expansion Slot Utility that gives the user options on how to assign lane bandwidth to the PCI bus.

A post about Adobe's announcement of new Flash platform tools.

Panasonic is now offering cheaper P2 cards ($420 for 16GB and $625 for 32GB).

A great review of music libraries.

Web designers rejoice, a new Adobe service puts browsers side by side.

This isn't new - just new to me. The Huey by Pantone is an inexpensive video monitor calibration tool. You may also want to compare it to the popular Spyder 2 among others.

You may never have to key footage again if it's up to the guys over at All Bets Are Off. They sell pre-keyed alpha stock footage.

If you live in NY, try to make it out to Manhattan Edit Workshop's Edit Fest NY, June 12 -14. They'll be A-list panels, classes and partying. I'm jealous.

Not to be outdone on the west coast, LAFCPUG will be putting on the 1st Annual London SuperMeet - with special guest (the one and only) Walter Murch, on June 25.

And lastly, the anticipation for WWDC here in San Francisco is reaching a fever pitch. I just couldn't resist the WWDC 2009 predictions on the Mac Soda blog. Final Cut Studio 3 anyone?...

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