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Running Avid software on legacy machines

By On December 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The folks at Genius DV posted this neat little trick to enable editors to run Avid Media Composer on PCs with unsupported audio cards.

For mission critical work I’m hesitant to use unsupported configurations, but sometimes I just want to get a jump on things and start logging on an old laptop.

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Back to school

By On August 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The katydids are out. As a kid the sound was the harbinger of the end of summer. To teachers their song is “write your syllabus.” This year is very different. Working at Avid will surely have a profound effect on how I teach FT504-Video Post Production I. Previously I’d always taught the class, quoting [...]

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YouSendIt plug-in for the NLE

By On August 13, 2008 · 2 Comments

Of course it’s not the NLE I’d choose to start with…

YouSendIt‘s Final Cut Pro plug-in is a useful editor to editor collaboration tool. Right-click on a clip or a sequence in the FCP project, and choose Export > Send by YouSendIt. YouSendIt’s plug-in gathers the necessary source files in a queue, offering [...]

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QuickTime currency

By On July 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A very interesting piece by the always thoughtful Mark Christiansen on ProVideoCoalition.com about our industry’s dependence on QuickTime in post production. He’s drawn a fascinating parallel between the adoption of the US dollar as the world’s currency and QuickTime as a post currency.

Back in the 90’s I remember lobbying hard, along with [...]

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Final Cut Pro HD resource

By On July 6, 2008 · 1 Comment

Philip Hodgetts has released a comprehensive guide for the video pro making the move to high definition production and post. It’s more than a compendium of frame rates, raster sizes, and media formats – though at 200+ pages there’s a good bit of that as well. The HD Survival Handbook is also [...]

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