Feb 5, 2012

This week has been a busy one, as I have been involved in a few Avid workshops. The week began with York University where I was instructing local student to the basics of Avid Media Composer 6. The students at York University had all been trained on Final Cut Pro 7.  I was invited to speak at York University about the basics of Avid and how the industry has...

Feb 2, 2012

Avid  today announced the release of its first video editing application for the iPad—Avid Studio, available immediately at the Apple App Store.  As the first iPad app for video editing to offer frame-by-frame editing accuracy and access to all kinds of media, Avid Studio for iPad allows users to quickly and easily create and share exciting, highly...

Feb 1, 2012

Filmmaking has always been an art of passion. We do it because we love it. Over the years cameras and gear have played a big part in how we look at the world thorough the view finder. With the recent news that Kodak is going under. I though it was a great time to just take a look at some of the turning points and evolution of cameras for filmmaking in hollywood...

Jan 20, 2012

Avid has been working very hard at providing editors with the most professional tools, and best possible support. Avid introduced Avid Media Composer 5 which was ground breaking, and then took it further with Avid Media Composer 5.5. Now Avid has introduced a new 64 bit native Media Composer with even more powerful tools, known as Avid Media Composer 6. Avid has...

Jan 18, 2012

The Canadian Cinema Editors (CCE) are hosting vaious workshops once again, and it is an honor to reprise my role as Instructor for one of the workshops. The workshop I will be teaching is Avid Media Composer 6.0, and it’s new capabilities.  The workshop will mainly cover the new aspects, and features of Avid Media Composer 6. The best part of this...