Easy guide to production
Sexton steps down after five years By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) It wasn't a very good day when Avid was delisted by NASDAQ. The move came a month after Avid announced that they would let their earning report plan slip it's due date, prompting many to wonder when the bad news would ever end … [Read more...]
NASDAQ Warns of Delisting By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Considering the accounting trouble Avid has faced lately, incoming CEO Louis Hernandez Jr. had to have seen it coming. When the company announced that they would be indefinitely delaying the reporting of quarterly earnings, he had to have … [Read more...]
Service Has Three Modes from Novice to Advanced By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) A new online service is taking video editing to the cloud and offering some interesting options for not only collaboration, but also for mobile cutting in the field as well. The service is called WeVideo, … [Read more...]
Delayed earnings report causes stock drop By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Avid undoubtedly popped some champagne corks Sunday night as their hallmark edited feature, Argo, took the Academy Award for Best Picture. Sadly, though, their elation was very short lived as less than 24 hours later, the … [Read more...]
Replaces long time CEO By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Avid Chairman and CEO Gary G. Greenfield is no longer at the helm after a move that is meant to assure investors that that the editing company is taking steps to reverse a downward trend in their revenue projections. According to an SEC … [Read more...]
Also offers additional 20% discount through January By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Autodesk Smoke for MAC is moving out of beta and is ready for release. And to celebrate, Autodesk not only made the sale price 1/5th of what Windows users paid for previous versions, it's also going to add an … [Read more...]
App will work either Premiere Pro and Final Cut X By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) When Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, and later the iPad, they changed the world forever. Not only because they were hot new gadgets that let users listen to music, watch movies, and play games, but because they … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) Final Cut Pro X features powerful new multicam editing tools, and in the last episode, Steve Martin and Mark Spencer of MacBreak Studio took a look at importing in all the various camera footage, including various types of cameras, such as DSLR, a shouldermount … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) Steve Martin and Mark Spencer of MacBreak Studio walk us through using Final Cut Pro X's amazing new multicam feature. If you're working with different cameras and different formats, such as a Panasonic AC160A as your primary camera, and a GoPro and two DSLRs as … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) It's been a hard few years for Avid. Once the king of non linear editors and the go to hardware solution for television and film, the computer based editing company has fallen on hard times thanks to the PC revolution. What can Avid do to stay live? We … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Gee, it seems like it wasn't all that long ago that the word Avid was synonymous with editing. The very word "Avid" was almost like "Kleenex, "Q-Tip" and "Xerox," brand names that became descriptive of what they did. Then the personal computer came along and video … [Read more...]
by Jeremiah Hall (doddleNEWS) In PART 1 we learned When dealing with 3D space in video, you need to think of the three axes - X, Y and Z. X is horizontal, Y is vertical and Z is depth. So now that you know this, what do you do with it? Pretend you are at work. A man has died overseas, … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Autodesk Smoke 2013 for the Mac is moving into a pre-release BETA stage. The visual effects and compositing software also has a non-linear editing app on its front end, adding video editing to its quiver. There's plenty of features packed into this professional … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) Autodesk is demoing its completely re-designed Smoke 2013 for Mac at NAB 2012, with a new user interface (UI) that's more traditional and in-line with other edit programs like Final Cut Pro X, Avid, and more, and features a huge price drop, from $15,000 per seat to … [Read more...]
Edit Share is previewing its 64-bit version of Lightworks, an open source non-linear editor (NLE), which is in beta for Linux users, and will be coming to Windows in late May 2012. Like all full-functioning, professional NLEs such as Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere Pro, Lightworks features … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Adobe Production Premium is the go to computer editing and special effects application that's been competing head to head with Final Cut Pro for nearly a decade. And when Final Cut Pro X came out, users were so put off by the new direction Apple was … [Read more...]
