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Recent reviews
AVID Media Composer 3.0
Following a recent change of senior management, Avid has changed its policy. As part of the company’s new strategy, the latest version of Media Composer arrives at around half the price of its predecessor, and includes a whole lot more in the box, too.
Interviews
Moving from PC to Mac: Graham Majin and Simon Warren of Kersh Media
21/11/2008
Rick Young
Kersh Media has been established for several years in Maidstone Kent, and pride themselves on producing high quality video production for broadcast and corporate clients throughout the UK and Europe. The company has used AVID as their editing platform along with a host of other compositing and encoding applications. Everything has been done on the PC platform. Now the company has switched from PC to Mac and chosen Final Cut Studio to meet their post-production needs.
Interview with Martin Baker, Founder of Digital Heaven
07/11/2008
Rick Young
In November 2004 Digital Heaven introduced Multicam Lite. This was a breakthrough product as it provided the first true Multicam solution for Final Cut Pro, well before Multicam was integrated as part of Final Cut Pro 5. In this interview, Martin Baker, Founder of Digital Heaven, talks about the history of the company, the products on offer, their latest application - Loader, and what we have to look forward to next from Digital Heaven.
AVID Technology: Interviews with Patrick McLean and Christel Jaekel
09/10/2008
Rick Young
It was announced in March of 2008: Avid has merged its Avid Xpress Pro software into its flagship Media Composer software product line and established a new price point of $2,495 for Media Composer software. This represented a significant price reduction in the cost of Media Composer and completely did away with the cheaper versions of the AVID software. What this means in that anyone buying an AVID in today's market is buying a real Media Composer - no cutdown, no half-functioning version - the Media Composer is now where it begins with AVID. In this interview two people from AVID technology talk about just what is is about AVID which separates it from the competition and why AVID editors love the AVID so much.
Abobe Interviews: Michael Coleman, Product Manager, Adobe After Effects and Simon Hayhurst, Sr. Director, Product Management, Dynamic Media
26/09/2008
Rick Young
Hear direct from the people at Abobe what the release of CS4 means for video editors. When CS3 was released this brought Abobe back to the Mac Platform for video editing. Now with CS4 Adobe takes another swipe at the market with new tools, new features, and new ways of doing things.
Ramy Katrib - the guy who put the word 'Pro' into Final Cut Pro
19/09/2008
Rick Young
When FCP hit the world back in 1999 the program was regarded as a video editing application. For those wishing to work with film, and match the negative to the edit produced from Final Cut, this was a formidable challenge. Those at an Los Angeles based edit facility known as DigitalFilm Tree were pioneers who broke through the wall of expensive post production and made film editing using FCP possible. Ramy Katrib, Founder of DigitalFilm Tree tells the story.
Interview with Roger Maybon, G-Technology
12/09/2008
Rick Young
G-Technology are well know for producing quality drives which are both reliable and capable of sustained levels of data transfer needed for high end video production. In this interview Roger Maybon talks about new products and developments for G-Tech for the the first half of 2008.
Interview with Giles Baker, Adobe
12/09/2008
Rick Young
Giles Baker, Senior Product Manager Adobe, talks about some of the key announcements made by Adobe in the first half of 2008 and comments on technologies Adobe has been working on which are yet to be integrated into the Adobe product-line.
Interview with Grant Petty - CEO Blackmagic Design, new products 2008
05/09/2008
Rick Young
Blackmagic design announced 10 new products at NAB 2008. Grant Petty, CEO of Blackmagic Design, runs through the latest additions and what is now on offer to video editors.
Interview with Richard Marks (part 5)
05/09/2008
Rick Young
In this latest episode Richard Marks speaks his love for the editing process, working in the film industry, and the satisfaction which the life of a film editor provides.
Live to Los Angeles and Boston - Michael Horton, LAFCPUG, Dan Berube, Boston FCPUG
22/08/2008
Rick Young
This week we cross live to Los Angeles and Boston to speak to the key players who organise the FCPUG Supermeet each year, for NAB, Macworld and now IBC. In this interview Michael Horton and Dan Berube talk about what has motivated them to bring the Supermeet to Europe and what to expect on the night of the 14th September in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Interview with Richard Marks (part 4)
22/08/2008
Rick Young
In this latest episode Richard Marks speaks about Final Cut Pro and the impact this is having, and gives his opinion on the question “will film survive?”
Interview with Micah Sharp, Red Giant Software
15/08/2008
Rick Young
Red Giant Software was founded in 2002 by industry veterans to develop and distribute special effects tools for digital video & film professionals. Red Giant products have been used in feature films, music videos, national TV commercials & broadcast shows.
Interview with Richard Marks (part 3)
08/08/2008
Rick Young
Richard Marks is one of Hollywood's most successful feature film editors. In this interview Richard talks working with Avid, the role of the Mac in Hollywood, and why many of the feature films in Hollywood today are still edited on Macs running OS9.
Digital Video Pioneer - Philip Hodgetts
08/08/2008
Rick Young
Philip Hodgetts is well-known throughout the digital video community. He regularly posts on numerous digital video and Final Cut Pro forums, has hosted his own internet podcast, is the creator the ProApps HUB, and President of Intelligent Assistance. Philip's experience in digital video goes back to the pioneering days on the Amiga and has continued on into both the Mac and Windows platforms. He is considered one of the Guru's of digital video.
Interview with Richard Marks (part 2)
01/08/2008
Rick Young
Richard Marks is one of Hollywood's most successful feature film editors. In this interview Richard talks about the time when non-linear editing came to Hollywood and revolutionized the post-production process. Editing credits for Richard Marks include: Serpico (1973), The Godfather, Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), Pennies from Heaven (1981), Terms of Endearment (1983), St. Elmo's Fire (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), Broadcast News (1987), Dick Tracey (1990), Father of the Bride (1991), One Good Cop (1991), I'll Do Anything (1994), Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), As Good as It Gets (1997), Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), Spanglish (2004), Made of Honor (2008).
Interview with Richard Marks (part 1)
25/07/2008
Rick Young
Richard Marks is one of Hollywood's most successful feature film editors. Editing credits include: Serpico (1973), The Godfather, Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), Pennies from Heaven (1981), Terms of Endearment (1983), St. Elmo's Fire (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), Broadcast News (1987), Dick Tracey (1990), Father of the Bride (1991), One Good Cop (1991), I'll Do Anything (1994), Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), As Good as It Gets (1997), Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), Spanglish (2004), Made of Honor (2008).
Interview with Graeme Nattress (part 2) Nattress Filters
04/07/2008
Rick Young
The art of plug-in creation from one of key players who has produced many set of plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and Motion.
Interview with Graeme Nattress, RED Digital Cinema and Nattress Plug-ins PARTS 1 and 2
04/07/2008
Rick Young
Two interviews are featured with Graeme Nattress, well known for creating sets of plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and Motion. Graeme also works for RED Digital Cinema with the job title "Problem Solver" on his business card. Graeme talks about just what it takes to make the concept of a 4K camera into reality and the art of plug-in creation.
Interview with David Helmly, Senior Business Development Manager, Video, Adobe Systems Inc., USA
20/06/2008
Rick Young
Adobe Premiere returned to the Mac in spectacular style in 2007. The program which was once the only affordable alternative for independents saw the demise on the Mac platform in 2003. However, when Apple moved to Intel chips Adobe ported what had become a PC only program back to the Mac. This is the story of what happened.
Interview with Shane Ross - AVID/Final Cut Pro Editor
30/05/2008
Rick Young
Shane Ross is a freelance editor based in Los Angeles. Shane has worked extensively on both AVID and Final Cut Pro (since version 2). In this interview Shane talks openly about the strengths and weaknesses of both editing systems.
