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Web Content Manager and Writer at Doddle; I've been a writer for over 8 years, and a producer/director/editor in film and video for over 16 years. I've written for TopTenREVIEWS, Digital Media Net, Videomaker and other sites and magazines, plus I frequently blog about Final Cut Pro X.
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) Here's another summer 2013 film I'm really excited about, Pacific Rim, from one of the best directors working today, Guillermo Del Toro. Giant robots fighting giant monsters? What's not to like! As gleaned from trailers, it takes two humans to pilot a Jaeger (the … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) Superman fans, we're just a couple of weeks away from the premiere of Man of Steel on June 14! I'm getting more and more excited, especially as we see new footage in TV spots and trailers. Now, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have debuted the fourth official Man … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) I finished my first Final Cut Pro X project last summer, a short film I directed called Hellevator. Once it was done, I should have archived it, because now I have multiple projects and events that open up every time I launch FCP X. In today's Final Cut Pro X … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) Here's the latest teaser trailer for Anchorman 2! It's similar to the first, but pretty funny. The film is shooting now for a late 2013 release. I love the first one, so I hope this is great. … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) Friday's Funny Feature is Star Wars-centric... While promoting the new Star Trek Into Darkness on Jimmy Kimmel Live, JJ Abrams takes audience suggestions about Star Wars: Episode VII. Similar to the bit Jimmy did with Harrison Ford taking audience members' … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) The latest Pacific Rim trailer is out, and it fleshes out the story more and even more action. Some of it we've seen with the first trailer and the con footage. I'm really excited for this film! … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) With DVD Studio Pro EOL'd (end of life), you can easily create a DVD in Final Cut Pro X. But there are times when you may want to burn a disk image, which will appear on your desktop or in a folder as a DVD icon, and you can view it with OS X's DVD Player app, or on … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) Next week will see the release of the long-awaited Star Trek Into Darkness, the sequel to JJ Abrams' excellent 2009 reboot of the Star Trek franchise. We may have been kept waiting for a while (while he did the fun Super 8), but it looks like the film is going to be … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) The latest film from Edgar Wright is The World's End with stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, plus Martin Freeman (The Hobbit). Five friends go out on a pub crawl when something goes wrong. Here's the trailer! … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) In this Final Cut Pro X tutorial, Mark Spencer and Steve Martin discuss taking over 25,000 photos Steve took in San Francisco, and making some time lapse videos. Yep, 25,000! Time lapse is a lot of fun, and if you're not shooting video at a slow frame rate, with the … [Read more...]
By Noel Randewich - SANTA CLARA, California (Reuters) Intel Corp on Monday unveiled the most extensive overhaul of its Atom mobile processors, with improved performance that the PC chipmaker expects will help it challenge Qualcomm in smartphones and tablets. The new microarchitecture, code-named … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) We've seen some great sweded trailers, from the first Iron Man 3 trailer, to an excellent Pacific Rim one that got the attention of Guillermo Del Toro. The latest Iron Man 3 trailer gets sweded by a filmmaker in Thailand. It's fun and, as /Film said, "it's batty!" … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) Check out the special Pacific Rim trailer that screened at both CinemaCon and WonderCon, it's pretty epic! … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) With JJ Abrams' Star Wars Episode VII getting closer to reality, targeting a release in the summer of 2015, it's time to go back and reflect on the 'Holy Trilogy,' George Lucas' masterpieces A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi (which is 30 … [Read more...]
By Tim Kelly and Mari Saito - TOKYO (Reuters) Super Mario creator Nintendo Co Ltd forecast a return to the black after two years of losses and camera maker Canon Inc raised its profit forecast by nearly 10 percent as a weaker yen, spurred by aggressive deflation-fighting policies, bolstered the … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) With Iron Man 3 opening this week internationally, Marvel Studios has put out the first trailer for Thor: The Dark World, and it's a big one. Check it out! … [Read more...]
