Elgato has released the Stream Deck plus with 4 programmable Nobs for $199. I can’t wait to see the XL version with Nobs!
I do love the programmable buttons and adding nobs is a huge thing, but the 8 buttons is not much.
First up from the Rough Cut, these awesome interviews with the Mandalorian Season 1 Editing Team.
FilmSupply has a good article on the hour of interviews and their 5 takeaways, that is also worth taking a look at, but the videos themselves are well worth watching.
Talking about not only on remote editing because of the pandemic but the new technologies and cutting together films before VFX is added with blue screen vs the volume, and being able to go to the set and talk to the director while the work on stuff, having cut the previz before production happened.
Meagan Keane has a great interview with Andy Young the editor on Warner Bros. Animation HARLEY QUINN. Interesting to hear about editing an animation show, and the differences with live action editing.
The disaster that is Elon Musk’s Twitter has made me seriously consider deleting it. It was fun watching the train wreck at first, but now as the shit piles up I really think it is getting to be time to delete twitter.
Jonny Elwyn’s has a letter from Walter Murch free with registration.
About propably the last time anything will every be edited on a Steinbeck, which I have never done, though I was probably the last class to edit on Moviolas at USC.
And it was honestly hell. Not the process and the decisions and physical cutting, but the machines, which would stick on, and destroy the negative, and had to be dived behind and unplugged. I was editing with Takashi Horie in college and I believe we even took naps behind the very loud machine.
DVResolve has the news on the latest DaVinci Resolve Update 18.1.1, which updates to the newest Blackmagic RAW 2.8 SDK.
I love what Blackmagic is doing and how quickly they release bug fixes.
I still prefer Premiere for my daily editor (mostly because of customization and dynamic link to After Effects which I mostly use to get sequences into After Effects), but Blackmagic is doing their damnedest to get me to switch.
Jana at StrongMocha has this excellent post on making your own sound effects.
Of course not being a sound guy I have found the lack of audio plugs ins to be an issue with sound fx in editing programs, but possibly I do need a small suite of audio plugs ins to improve my ability to work on sounds effects and make them better.
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and In Design have all lost their Pantone Swatches, and you can pay $15 for a Premium Service, which is supposed to restore some Pantone Functionality, but it is not the same and doesn’t restore the old swatches.
You can now install the Pantone Connect plug in and use a free account, but functionality is not as good.
Obviously this is saving Adobe money, but with the old Pantone swatches becoming unusable even with the paid subscription this is not a great solution.
I have to admit I have always respected Title Safe, and hated when After Effects switched from 80% for Title Safe and 90% for Action Safe to 90% for Title Safe and 93% for action safe. I switched back to the original safer settings and this article is why you should to.