The Editing…Timeline

Professional editors who have been in the game long enough realize that, much like the timelines they are glued to 25 hours a day, the evolution of video editing - while obviously linear - is becoming increasingly compressed. The old salts will talk about the days of the 'cutting room floor' (now that's just a …

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Collaboration for Musicians: A Look at Melosity

I’ve been a guitar player most of my life, and even believed at one point that I would be on stage, touring the world with a band that would surely rival The Police, U2 or REM. But then the real world set in. Fast forward 35 years. I still play - I own two Stratocasters, …

Making Video Editing Plug-ins Smarter

I've known Jim Tierney of Digital Anarchy for over 1o years now - I see him at least once a year at NAB in Vegas in the famed Plug-in Pavilion. I've always admired his work, and now after all these years, we've found an opportunity to work together. Digital Anarchy has become well known in …

Live Stream Directly to Facebook with Switcher Studio

  It's a pretty big day for the team at Switcher Studio. Today they announced a new integration deal with Facebook Live, which means you can now stream live to Facebook directly from within the app. That's cool! With a single tap in Switcher Studio, you can be live streaming from an iPhone or iPad, …

Rampant Design + FCPX

This week Rampant announced it has released even more plugins specifically designed for the FCPX community. It's great news for FCPX editors as they now have a set of tools that make their lives that much easier. If you can remove tedium, if you can save some time, if you can do it with extremely …

NAB Roundup: Rampant Design Tools on PostPerspective

Stefanie and Sean Mullen of Rampant Design Tools also spoke with Randi Altman of PostPerspective at NAB 2016. These two are the hardest working people in VFX I know, and they were at NAB talking about 14 brand new products! In addition to that, they've homed in on the Final Cut X market with some …

iPhone 6s 4k Video Changes Everything…Sort of…And That’s OK!

The release of the iPhone 6s and 6s+ is here, as well as the onslaught of first-looks reviews, opinions, and discussions about it’s new capabilities. In the filmmaking and pro production community, the discussion is centered around 4k video. And I find the reactions quite interesting. There are some who welcome it, and share in …