Kessler Crane Pocket Jib Review
Cammon and I have been doing some reviews lately. Here is his…
AJA IO Express Video Review
A short video review of the overall use of the AJA IO Express while I used it over 30 days. I used it with Avid Media Composer 5.5, Final Cut Studio and part of the Adobe Production Premium. I’d give it a 4 of 5 stars at the moment, but in the future I can see it having a full 5 stars once Avid and AJA start to work together more in the future.
Why Final Cut Pro X Is Sending Me Back to Avid
Here is a great piece by Matt Toder at the Gizmodo opinion…
Final Cut X: Discuss
In this video, Cammon and I discuss some of our worries about…
Final Cut X: I Don’t Get It
Before reading this article, this is what you should know:
– I didn’t go to the SuperMeet. My wife is expecting any day and I decided to stay home instead of potentially miss our little girl’s birth.
– I followed the feed and tweets of everyone there as best I could.
– I use Final Cut Pro every day.
Getting Familiar with the AJA IO Express
I got my hands on an AJA IO Express and so far I am loving it. As I have explained before, I decided to go with a the 17 inch MacBook Pro for my home editing system because I usually work in other offices where Mac Pros are provided. The AJA IO Express is a great upgrade for my system. It’s takes it up a step or two in terms of making me feel like I have a complete system on the go or in the office. So far I have used it with Avid Media Composer 5.5 (seems that my H.264 AMA media is a bit more stable so far, but I haven’t gone past 5 minutes in a sequence), Final Cut Pro and After Effects.
I hooked it up to my machine while working as a VFX editor on a feature at BluFire Studios. I was going through the different reels of the film and some footage really stood out to me like it never had before. There were a couple scenic shots on the 5D Mark 2 on this film while the rest of it was shot on the RED. Whoa, the 5D stuff just doesn’t compare to the RED, but I hadn’t noticed this as much before while using my second monitor as another display rather than going through a piece of hardware like the IO Express.
A couple of things you should know if you are setting up the AJA IO Express for the first time.
Sequence of the Day
Guess who gets to clean up this timeline? THIS GUY! Audio…
The Modern Editor Myth
I have a problem with what people think is the Modern Editor. The one I speak of is the self taught, do it yourself, do it all, one stop shop who has not learned through others while ignoring pre established workflow patterns. I’ve been teaching a once a week night class on Post Production at a local University and have only come to believe in this idea even more so than before. After reading Scott Simmon’s tweet/article about Bewaring of (Some) YouTube FCP Tutorial Videos I was even more convinced that the “modern editor” not only existed, but was growing in the ranks.
What you should know about my past is that I am primarily self taught, so I don’t think that in and of itself is the issue. It’s thinking that being self taught is enough. I think it would be better to hand out some pointers rather than to say what I think is wrong.
– Find a mentor, be an assistant editor.