Sitting on Mountains of Video Archives and Don’t Know Where to Start? Clippn Can Help

Last month I helped announce a new service for video archives and news organizations called Clippn. Founded by industry veteran, Mick Reed, Clippn is a service designed to to help companies deal with the vast video archives they’ve been sitting on - not just wrangle them, but actually effectively curate, catalog, tag and even monetize …

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Welcome Back: Puget Systems

There are moments in your career that are truly gratifying. And today is one of those days. Because an old client - we had worked together around 10 years ago - called and asked if I’d be interested in working together again. I’ve always said that one of the best parts of running a consultancy …

Artificial Intelligence Engines Drive New Transcription Software

  Digital Anarchy's Transcriptive is shipping! If you were at NAB 2017, you may have seen Jim Tierney doing a tech demo of this new, intelligent transcription software for Premiere Pro editors. Today, they've announced it's available immediately! This is great news for any editor - or anyone - who's had to deal with the …

PR: You May Be Doing it Wrong

Public relations is one of the most misunderstood - and mystifying - disciplines out there. When done correctly, PR is highly valuable, effectively shaping your brand, sharing your story and driving your business forward. But since it is so misunderstood, and nearly impossible to measure, many are trying and failing. So what’s the problem? “Is …

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 …

Review & Approval: When the Status Quo is Your Biggest Competitor

I first wrote about Review and Approval apps back in 2014; here’s an excerpt of some of the things I discussed in my post back then. I share these thoughts again because they still ring true and apply today: Collaborative review and approval apps aren’t necessarily a new concept. In fact, my first experience working …

Speaking with Renowned Colorist Patrick Inhofer about Color, Scopes and Trusting Your Own Eyes

  Patrick Inhofer first began teaching at the New York City Final Cut Pro User’s Group, where he demo’ed how to use FCP’s 3-Way Color Correction filter for both technical and creative effect. He later joined that group’s Board of Directors to become its Treasurer and – when his mentor, the group’s fearless leader Michael …

Edit Essentials: Exactly What I Need, Everyday

Vast libraries of amazing effects are great. But sometimes it's like drinking from a fire hose. Sometimes you're on a job, on a deadline, and on a budget. And let's face it, sometimes it's drudgery. Sometimes you just need those handful of effects to get the job done easily and quickly. But it still has to …

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 …

Automatic Duck Xsend Motion for FCPX: Building Bridges, The Good Kind

At NAB 2016 during the FCP Exchange event, Wes Plate of Automatic Duck made a lot of Final Cut Pro X editors and Motion 5 artists very, very happy. He announced the development of a new product from the Duck - a product that effectively builds a bridge between Final Cut Pro X and Motion. …