Edited 731 7/22 I don’t know about this rumor, but it’s too fascinating to let go. According to Deadline, Apple is considering purchasing Hulu for $2 billion. What’s most interesting is that the deal would include two years of exclusive programming from NBCUniversal (now owned by Comcast), Fox (NewsCorp) and Disney (who happens to have […]
Remember when George Lucas went back to the first three films in his Star Wars Saga and “tweaked” the special effects? It bothered me a bit because the first three films are iconic, and their effects were state of the art at the time that they were made. The wholesale re-editing of scenes is another […]
Click on this link from Apple Insider to see more images of Final Cut X, as well as information about its functionality (it’s somewhat basic, but I have not seen it prior).
“X-Men: First Class” is coming to theaters June 3rd, to commemorate Twentieth-Century Fox is introducing “X-Men EXTRA”, an app that claims to put the viewer “…in the middle of history’s most defining–and top secret–moments. At the moment it’s available only for iPad.
I wasn’t planning on writing anything about Final Cut Pro X till I either got my hands on a copy, or reviews started appearing in the wild, though I changed my mind when I received an email on the subject. Frankly, there isn’t much in the way of visuals, though it does give information about […]
According to CNET, DVD sales are down 20 percent. And while I can’t speak for anyone but myself, I know that if there’s a choice between downloading a movie via iTunes or purchasing a DVD, I will virtually always go with iTunes.
Editing can be one of the most difficult tasks in shooting a film. Sure, it’s a pain to get to a location, get your shots, get multiple takes of your shots and then get them home, but imagine choosing exactly the right take and then making sure that take works within the framework of all […]
Apple’s Final Cut suite of professional editing programs have been used on films from the Coen brothers remake of “True Grit” to “(500) Days of Summer”. According to Facebook, in 2007 49% of films made were edited with the application.
Special effects have come a long way in the past 30 years. They’ve evolved from practical elements rotoscoped together to digital effects that stitched together with the power of computer editing. The increasing power and speed of computers means that computers are able to create complex worlds that take up terabytes of data like James Cameron’s “Avatar” […]
As screenPhiles, we should pay attention not only to how others make film, but how to make film ourselves. To that end, I feel that I should share some valuable lessons learned while filming the Washington, DC International Film Festival two weeks ago. While many of these lessons apply mostly to one-man-band style broadcast and […]
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