Splice Vine Links (2/28/10 - 3/7/10)

iPhone Apps

I talked with the people at Lynda about the need for this app over a year ago. I guess they got an earful from thousands of other members as well. So they've finally put out the Lynda.com iPhone app! Great, now I'll obsess even more about doing tutorials (as if that is possible). They must have been feeling the heat from their rivals at MacProVideo and their NEDi iPhone app.

Also, I've been checking out the very cool (quasi) Post Magazine iPhone app. I say quasi because the text is not reformatted for the iPhone, like say the NY Times iPhone app. But it's still great having the venerable magazine at my fingertips.

And, I haven't check this out yet but it could be cool. Air Video can stream videos in almost any format to your iPhone and iPod touch.






Websites

A whole heap of links from FCPDaily of sites where you can find FREE stoock photography for your video projects. (Do not click on freephotosbank.com - it has an annoying talking flash banner ad on the home screen).


Plug-ins

At the SFCutters user group meeting this week they were recommending the FieldsKit by RE:Vision Effects. It's supposed to give you very good results for deinterlacing, reinterlacing and doing pulldown on your source footage.


Software

I'm a sucker for any miracle product promising faster processing and encoding and Elemental's Accelerator 2.2 for Mac promises to do both - and more. It would be nice if there was a review with speed tests somewhere online to see if the $300 price tag is worth it.



Hardware

Scott Simmons has some First Impressions of the Euphonix MC Color on the Edit Blog over at the ProVideo Coalition. This is one of two control surfaces that are supposed to usher in a whole new era of precision color grading for the masses. The other one is Tanget Wave and it was reviewed by Simmons in November. They're both similarly priced at around $1,499.