Luminoir

I’ve recently been doing a few talent showreels and was asked to give some advice to an acquaintance with no editing experience how to get her showreel done with another editor.
The resulting email was so detailed I thought it would be a great template for me to send out to anyone thinking of cutting their [...]

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Just concluded a 4 day editing workshop with Kris Trexler, and it was a great experience.
He had great photos of film and video technology from the days of tape splicing and hilarious anecdotes from his 40+ years of working as an editor. He also kindly brought footage from his sitcom According to Jim for us [...]

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My new creative cow article is out.
http://magazine.creativecow.net/issue/the-games
Page 34

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IN THE TIMELINE

Zoom Tool

Press z to activate the Zoom Tool.
Hold shift to toggle to the Hand Tool.

Track Tool

Press t to activate the Track Tool
Hold shift to toggle it to All Tracks

Blade Tool

Press b to activate the Blade Tool.
Hold shift to toggle it to cut [...]

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http://www.spherico.de/filmtools
Marker tool is a great find, it allows you to transfer markers from clip level to sequence level with many options.
Been busy of late working on the Creative Cow print article, look out for it in 6 weeks or so on the Creative Cow magazine.
In the meantime, I’ll be updating with more tutorials and writing [...]

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Please note that these posts are now shortened versions and the full versions are up on Creative Cow.
Standardized filenaming conventions (What we can learn from Bittorrent)
Get Fast FAST
Be Replaceable, Have A Life
The following post is also being reversioned into a print article for the Creative Cow Magazine.
Working with Video Game Footage
That’s the reason the posting [...]

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There are some tools I use to make my life easier. YMMV and there may be other software that works better for you. If so, leave a comment on what you think is better and share your favourite time savers (or wasters)
Just yesterday, I left a long export of a quicktime movie to go with [...]

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