final (cut) Berlin User Group

Valentin graced us with a fascinating introduction to film analysis.

Meticulously examining ” Stand by Me”

http://www.ourmedia.org/node/141586

Paul explained the advantages of using a node based filter system in FCP

Conduit is a plugin for FCP and Motion which uses a powerful Node Editor.

See the tutorial above.

http://dvgarage.com/prod/prod.php?prod=conduit15

Unfortunately the Sound Track Pro Tutorial had to be postponed.

here a couple of tools and sites for your own media revolution:

performancing: free pro blog editor as a firefox extension

since i started using wordpress more frequently i got very frustrated with the built-in blog editor. it might be an os x specific problem, but to me the wordpress blog editor seems very buggy. finally i found what i was looking for: a simple, powerful wysiwyg blog editor that “just works”: http://performancing.com/firefox

from their site:

    * Full WYSIWYG and source editing
    * Save as Notes
    * Add all your various blog accounts
    * Technorati Support
    * Delicious integration
    * Trackback support
    * Draft support
    * Ping support
    * Image upload and FTP
    * Metrics stats

for more have a look at the performancing for firefox tour.

internet archive: moving image archive

the moving images section at the internet archive is a great resource for everyone who has to do with moving images. you can upload your own shorts or feature lengths works to the open source movie section or download and watch old (and often public domain) movies at the movies section (e.g. early chaplin, hitchcock or hawks movies).

make sure to understand the licenses on the individual movie’s pages if you plan to reuse the footage…

audiovisual wiki

a pretty complete introduction to all things audio/video and online offers the audiovisual p2p wiki (that i help writing/maintain):

audiovisual p2p wiki

open-source film making

i recently wrote a four part series about open-source storytelling/film making – maybe this is of interest to some of you:

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

enjoy,

valentin

tags: blog editor, public domain, movies, audiovisual, wiki, open-source, storytelling, film making

Tutorials, discussions, problem solving and networking.

Jakob demonstrated Mirage and Simon Nino.

Mirage

Paul presented his review for 2006. Looked at markers and talked about his experience with Film School in a Box.

FSB

Reinhard present his new tool a small add-on application, made for writing and or tagging transcripts with time-code and video stills.
It shall be released as public preview soon.

r.moeller(at)digiden.de

It was a kind of weird situation any way. Adobe had Acrobat, Flash, After Effects etc all running on mac OS X but no Adobe Premiere Pro. Adobe has now announced that they will be returning to the Mac platform!

What are the consequences for FCP. My guess is that it won´t be much serious competition for FCP. These days FCP has become a accepted standard alongside Avid. Premiere pro although undoubtedly an excellent program (haven´t used it since version 4!) still has not been accepted as an industry standard.

So we will have Premiere Pro running on both Macs and PC by mid 2007. It will take another 2 too 3 years before FCP will be running on a PC. And imagine that FCP were to get much more expensive in the near future.

Like for example they brought out a FCP Extreme with some nuts and bolts integrated in one form or the other, from old war horses like Shake and Final Touch HD.

Could this be a window of opportunity for Adobe and what about Linux which should also become a serious contender as a platform for video editing in the coming years!

www.adobe.com