Avid Media Composer Export Options

Avid Media Composer Export Options - Final Cut Pro, Avid, and After Effects Training:
This lesson focuses on exporting a sequence from Avid Media Composer.  Learn how to create customized export settings.
This online training is the culmination of over 1000 hours of work, along with 17 years of Avid training experience. Some of the lessons you may have seen on YouTube, and those have been included as ‘bonus’ free lessons for the general public.

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Video Editing Apps: Premiere Pro vs Final Cut Pro X vs Media Composer

Video Editing Apps: Premiere Pro vs Final Cut Pro X vs Media Composer | Premiumbeat.com:

Deciding between Adobe Creative Cloud, Final Cut Pro X & Avid for pro video editing? Here are a few thoughts and opinions to help you make that call.

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Some best common practice DCP color space workflows part 2

Some best common practice DCP color space workflows part 2 | Knut Erik Evensen - KESE:
in 2011. I tried to find some good sources on DCP color space workflows. In this part 2 I want to go into more detail on these workflows and clarify some things:

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The Basics of HTTP Live Streaming

The Basics of HTTP Live Streaming | Larry's Blog:
The research for this article started when some of my subscription users started complaining that they could only see a few minutes of one of my longer webinars before they needed to reset their browser. At first, I thought this was caused by bad programming on our part. But, further research made me realize that iOS devices only stream about 10 minutes of continuous video content when they are connected to a cellular data network, then they stop.

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NAS or SAN? Part Two: When to use which for Video?

NAS or SAN? Part Two: When to use which for Video? | wolfcrow:
As we saw in Part One, a SAN is built for speed and reliability. To make the SAN behave like your hard drive, you’ll have to eliminate the middle man – the Operating System/File System. A SAN actually lets you reach and take what you want from a hard drive directly. The technical word for this is: having block-level access – the ability to read files directly in blocks (many at a time) to get the fastest data transfer possible.

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Raw is not log, log is not raw. They are very different things.

Raw is not log, log is not raw. They are very different things. | XDCAM-USER.COM:
Having just finished 3 workshops at Cinegear and a full day F5/F55 workshop at AbelCine one thing became apparent. There is a lot of confusion over raw and log recording. I overheard many people talking about shooting raw using S-log2 or people simply interchanging raw and log as though they are the same thing.

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Are video codecs written in JavaScript really the future?

Are video codecs written in JavaScript really the future? | Ars Technica:
Describing it as "the future," Mozilla has been showing off ORBX.js, a video codec roughly comparable to the industry-standard H.264 that can be decoded entirely in JavaScript.

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How To Be A DIT - Part 5 | Jonny Elwyn - Film Editor

How To Be A DIT - Part 5 | Jonny Elwyn - Film Editor:
DIT’s are supposed to be able to bridge the gap between production and post, understanding the entire pipeline that a digital image might flow through right from the sensor to the silver screen. Getting to grips with some of the science that affects those images is a crucial skill. Hopefully these resources will aide you in that endeavour.

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new OpenEXR and DPX importers for After Effects CC (12.0): better performance and additional functionality

new OpenEXR and DPX importers for After Effects CC (12.0): better performance and additional functionality | After Effects region of interest:
After Effects CC (12.0) includes version 1.8 of the OpenEXR importer plug-in from fnordware and version 1.8 of the ProEXR plug-ins, EXtractoR and IDentifier. (For details about how to use the ProEXR plug-ins to use 3D channels and other data in OpenEXR files in After Effects, see this section of After Effects Help.)

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NAS or SAN? Part One: How to tell which is which?

NAS or SAN? Part One: How to tell which is which? | wolfcrow:
If you’re in the video world you might have heard about a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and a SAN (Storage Area Network). This article tries to help you answer the question: SAN or NAS? Which one’s right for you?

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Pro Camcorders Buy Guide

Pro Camcorders Buy Guide | Videomaker.com:
Many of the features associated with a professional production unit start at about $1,500. While many lower-priced models may do the job, there’s usually a significant trade off between feature/functionality and price. Likewise, many cameras are available beyond the prosumer and professional outer range of $10,000 for a product ready-to-shoot right out of the box. For the purposes of our Pro Camcorders Buyer’s Guide we’ll stay inside these margins. You’ll find plenty to pick from.

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Configure File Shares In Windows Server 2012

Configure File Shares In Windows Server 2012 | Krypted.com:
As I mentioned in an earlier article, the File and Storage Role is installed by default in Windows Server 2012. This means you can create a file share with a very minimal amount of work on a brand new server. To get started, as with many things regarding Server 2012, open Server Manager.

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Avid Symphony is Dead

Avid Symphony is Dead; HDhead:
The difference between Avid Media Composer and Symphony editors has been minimal over the years.

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5 things Apple should change in OS X 10.9

5 things Apple should change in OS X 10.9:
OS X is a mature operating system so it's probably largely meeting most people's needs already, however here's a list of five things we'd like to see in OS X 10.9.

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Hamburg Pro Media Releases JPEG2000 Decoder

Hamburg Pro Media Releases JPEG2000 Decoder | Digital Production BuZZ:
The “state of the art” JPEG2000 decoder opens JPEG2000 files in nearly any QuickTime application like e.g Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere or the MXF4mac Player.

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GoPro and Adobe Raw Now Supports Canon 5D Mk. III

GoPro and Adobe Raw Now Supports Canon 5D Mk. III:
One of the chief complaints that some have had over the Magic Lantern hack is its inability to bring a solid workflow to video editing.  Users to to hack together an open source converter to move Raw files to DNG, but how likely are pros to use it?  Now, both GoPro Cineform Raw and Adobe Cinema DNG will that gap. With CineForm Raw, users have direct editing through Adobe Premiere and can color correct straight into DaVinci Resolve 9. And Adobe Cinema DNG offers their own workflow solutions as well.

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Cinemaslides

Cinemaslides:
Cinemaslides is a commandline tool to build slideshows and pack them up as digital cinema packages (DCPs). It has preview modes to check how transitions (fades, crossfades, cuts) and timings play out. If you must you can tell Cinemaslides to go 24fps-carousel-berserk and pack up your motion picture1, too. It can sign packages, build encrypted DCPs and has a KDM mode to create key delivery messages. It allows to generate a CompositionMetadataAsset (see ISDCF’s draft) and a Theater Key Retrieval item (see ISDCF’s draft).

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A Comparison of 10 Thunderbolt RAID Storage Solutions

A Comparison of 10 Thunderbolt RAID Storage Solutions | wolfcrow:
The way things are going, you could safely bet that you’ll always need more storage, never less. Nobody wants to transfer data every few months once their drives run out, and it is not always a good idea to put everything in internal drives because then it is totally dependent on your computer.

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Archiware

Archiware:
Archiware’s P5 software allows users to synchronize, backup and archive data on Mac, Windows, Linux and Solaris.

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Using FFMPEG to convert DCPs to other formats

Using FFMPEG to convert DCPs to other formats | Knut Erik Evensen - KESE:
Ffmpeg can read the MXF files used in DCPs and automatically apply a XYZ-RGB color transform when converting them. With FFMPEG you can convert a DCP to a Prores file or a TS file that you can play on your PS3 to get some idea of how it looks and sound. You can even watch it in real time.

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