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How Music-Video Vet Don Wilson Managed a Stereo Workflow for Final Cut Pro

When Action 3D Productions hired an editor to cut the concert film Phish 3D, it made sense that they’d go to Don Wilson’s Americana Media. Wilson is an Emmy-winning producer-director-editor whose experience in the industry stretches back to the early days of MTV, when he was cutting promo clips for any number of top-tier acts. (His resume since then includes positions at Varitel and EDS Digital Studios, Craig Murray Productions, The Selluloid Group, and AMI.) As Wilson describes it, working in 3D was a technical complication rather than a creative one. And, as an early user of CineForm’s Neo3D editing workflow, Wilson was one of the guinea pigs who helped CineForm make Apple’s Final Cut Pro stereo-friendly. F&V talked to him about his career, his stereo workflow, and why he thinks cutting concerts in 3D is actually easier. Continue reading »

eventDV by David McKnight

A recent email blast for a new Sony camcorder loudly proclaims: “A new year. A new format.” It sometimes feels that way, doesn’t it? For prosumer video camera codecs, the current “belle of the ball” is AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) in all its many flavors. The signature benefit of AVCHD is its compression efficiency as an MPEG-4-based codec, which means it can store more video information at lower bitrates than HDV. But as most of who have worked with it know, AVCHD can be a bear to edit, and the challenges vary based on which NLE you use to edit it. Continue reading »

Avid User Forums by Keith

While we wait for AMA support of AVCHD there is an improvement that I found that some may know but I thought I would share it here for those that missed it.

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EventDV by Elizabeth Avery Merfeld

  If Gebbs Wedding Films’ Michael Gebben didn’t have a strict personal policy against selling clients on technology, you can bet he’d be bragging about the two most significant additions to his arsenal he’s made recently: Canon’s 5D Mark II and EOS 7D DSLRs. For Gebben, a rising industry star whose demo was recently selected for use in the nationally syndicated TV show Wedlock or Deadlock, these so-called fusion cameras have made his already great-looking same day edits (SDEs)-his studio’s specialty-even more spectacular. “SDEs became our big thing” in 2009, he says. And since he started shooting them almost exclusively with the 5D and the 7D, there’s even more demand. In fact, all his bookings for 2010 and 2011 are SDE-only. Continue reading »