On October 20th, AVID released Media Composer 2022.10 and here are the new features. Always welcome updates, and being able to make a protools session straight from AVID seems like a no brainer considering they own both software!
Jonny Elwyn has posted the best Christmas Gifts for Film Editors. As always he has some great stuff here, and it is well worth checking out.
Now I have been a regular user of Suitcase Fusion for years to manage fonts on my mac, and after 20 years I have accumulated a ton of fonts. And I honestly didn't realize that PostScript fonts were losing support in Adobe as of January 2023. I have literally thousands of Postscript fonts and I used Connect Fonts (the current online version of what used to be Suitcase Fusion) to remove them from my font library. I kept a backup in case I run into someplace where I need one from an old project, but I don't want them gumming up the works if they aren't going to work in Adobe. So here is a great article on the whole thing from Andrew Rhodes at Extensis. And if you use Connect Fonts, it is very easy to find your soon to be outdated PostScript Fonts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5RIPtyzN_Q&list=PLj3YlWW9JrKHXZhLhDcc5yZYN1AnmY9e6&index=7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0FCBcJneM Artlist will soon be introducing Artlist Max starting at $29.95. Artlist already purchased FXhome the creator of Hitfilm 6 months after purchasing Motion Array, so this is basically tying it all together.
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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkb4aKBVcmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCUPikwc9lY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibkConHAXQ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCn4BtuSiQ 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.
https://youtu.be/LFZhq7y_hfg 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.
Jason Hellerman at No Film School has a great article on Rotoscoping which goes into it's history in animation and with examples. It is well worth checking out.
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. This article tells how and gives some tips (like changing your e-mail) that might make things better if you ever want to return.
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.