Archive for October, 2009
Non-Linear Editing Systems: My Bloggiest Post
I started to write one of these articles comparing NLEs myself, but this Editor David Maurer does a much better job!
http://www.flickgym.com/2009/10/top-ten-reasons-avid-beats-final-cut-pro.html
I’m a recent convert, though not from Final Cut to Avid specifically. And not because it was a hard decision to make, but because I never had access to Avid. Previously I regularly flip-flopped between Adobe Premiere and Final Cut and quite frankly I preferred Premiere to Fina Cut for the pure usability. I hadn’t gotten too complicated with multi-cams shoots or working offline before moving to New York because all my projects were usually small, one camera shoot, indie short films. Maybe I would have had choosen FCP over Premiere for those features if I ever needed to try them out. I don’t even know how Premiere handles multicam, if at all still. But as soon as I started to work with Avid, I realized how much more robust the program is. And THEN to go back to FCP at some post houses and try and do some of the same things Avid does, it was like trying to push a car up a mountain. You can sometimes do it, but it’s real damn difficult. Now I’m a full Avid convert.
20th Century Burlap
Recently I discovered something eerie that seems to directly refer to our first short and first 48 hour film fest submission “The Body in Burlap,” whose logline since the beginning has been: “An unassuming gardener is asked to dispose of a mysterious girl.”
Behind the Scenes: Night at the Museum
This may be one of the most interesting behind the scenes videos for the making of a film I’ve seen. Lots of good descriptions of roles, lots of good rundowns of process, and good footage of the process as a whole. You get to see it rather than just talking heads describing it. Plus when people explain their job on set WHILE on set, rather than a year later as they sit on a couch with a video camera on them, it’s much more accurate and informative.
Cool stuff! I wish a video like this was available when I was first trying to figure this all out in middle school!
