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.
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. It is by Erik K Swanson, and well worth checking out.
I find Andor one of the best and most interesting Star Wars shows as was Rogue One a Star Wars Story. My only complaint is the interview should certainly have been longer. Check it out here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB_c2ugLWa0 Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 18.1 has been released and it has so many impressive features. It is so impressive to see Blackmagic take features that other people do (read Adobe) and do leapfrog them with more impressive features. I was very happy just to have adjustable keyframes in Fairlight Audio Automation. Without having an audio board, vector keyframing for Automation Curves makes this so much easier for many cases than riding levels, and I used that extensively in my short film to do my final mix. Above and beyond that though are the AI Based Voice Isolation as well as the Built-in Dialogue Leveler. The dialogue leveler does what adobe did with it's essential audio panel, and takes it to the next level. While Adobe can level clips, it levels whole clips in the timeline, while Blackmagic does it for the the whole track, being able to level different parts of a single clip! This feels like something that should have been added to Adobe years ago as an incremental upgrade, but Adobe does seem to go in on new features more than new features (and yes this is new to DaVinci as well).