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Posted in Camera & Eye, Cool Sites, Editing, Film, Technology on Jan 25th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get my latest posts directly in your mailbox. Thanks for coming to the Foo!Just came across a one-page site by Jan E. Schotsman which offers a couple of video tools for the Mac, and at zero cost.
Fix your video
The JES [...]
Posted in Editing on Nov 29th, 2007
There is a new(ish) blog for assistant editors, aptly named Post Production Standards.
Take a look here.
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Posted in Cool Sites, Editing, Film, Technology on Nov 19th, 2007
If you have a Mac and a video camera, there is a nifty tool called iDive (“the iPhoto of video”). Good program if you want to organize your shots, it integrates into Final Cut Pro or iMovie, lets you keep compressed versions of the footage. And it gets good to very good ratings across the [...]
Nice French example of what can be done in post production.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4oTzOiCEpM
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Posted in Editing on Nov 4th, 2007
When you are filming interviews, it helps a great deal in editing to have the interview written down on paper. For the Mac there is a lovely tool called Transcriva. It takes up the feel of iChat and uses the same approach for transcription. It also notes down the times - a great timesaver. $19.99 [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Editing, Film, Life on Nov 1st, 2007
5 years ago we started a documentary project, which we finished earlier this year. Tonight “Bak gamle dører — Odvar Nordli forteller” will be screened on national Television (NRK2, 20:10; re-run on saturday on NRK1). Long period, and we have learned a lot.
52 minutes, shot in 16:9, mostly on a DSR-570. Edited by Tali Weiss [...]