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January 2008
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Kutless: Take Me Right Back On the Spot
- Jeff, drummer for Kutless, shares how he has learned God provides a place to that which he can come back — even when he has previously turned away from him. By Nelson Acosta
50s Sci Fi
50s Sci Fi
Analysis of Birth of a Nation
Analysis of Birth of a Nation
Devil Skit
Devil Skit Edited by Nelson Acosta
Noire Entertainment
Noire Entertainment Directed by E-Low Edited by Nelson Acosta
Hollywood Style
Hollywood 30’s & 40’s
Albert Maysles, Filmmaker
discussion of Beatles Documentary.
3-Minute Film School
Want to write, produce, direct or act in movies? Launch your Film Career now! Web Film School … Launch your film career NOW!
How To Be A Director
Want to make your own movies? Want to be a rich, famous, award-winning successful film director? Dov S-S Simens shows you how! Web Film School … Launch your film career NOW!
Film clips and discussion
Film clips and discussion
Music supervisor
Music supervisor
Social Context: Horror
Social Context: Horror
How To Be A Writer
Want to write movies? Want to be a successful, money-making, award-winning Screenwriter? Dov S-S Simens shows you how! Web Film School … Launch your film career NOW!
Oliver Stone interview from Oliver Stone's America
How to be a Producer
Want to make movies? Want to be a rich, famous, award-winning Producer? Dov S-S Simens shows you how. I am a big fan of Dov S-S Simens if you can attend his 2 day workshop.
ACE Members Tech Web Discussion Editor Harry B... →
ACE Members Tech Web Discussion Editor Harry B Miller III posted a new entry on the American Cinema Editors blog today. It’s not a total Final Cut Pro bashing that has appeared on the blog before. It’s a bit more of an even-handed look at his experience cutting this project on FCP.
Watching A Film On Your iPhone
David Lynch you are the coolest filmmaker. T
Hitchcock on the three types of editing
Check out this nice lecture from a master of cinema. Hitchcock talks about the three types of editing and what each does your film.
7 Steps To Write A Successful Script
With the Writes Guild Strike still marching on I thought about how I can get back into writing a screenplay for a film. Not to take anyones job, but more to get myself out of the technical cramming of information. Back in school I loved my screen-writing class. We all gathered around and read our scripts out loud. I miss that. It was more the technique than the creativity. I also miss the...
Lost Star Wars scene
Mental Floss has posted a You Tube clip of the lost opening scene of Star Wars. As a child of the Star Wars generation I remember hearing about this scene over the years so it’s nice to finally see it. It’s got cheesy Lucas dialog but the extended scene with the character Biggs does help explain the story a bit. Thank you You Tube and thank you Internet! It’ll probably be pulled down soon.
Anytime Anywhere & Place Called Love
Music Video by Julie Ingram directed by George Trill edited by Nelson Acosta
August 2007
34 posts
48hour faux project
This weekend I will be editing in The 48hr Faux Project. It is a way to force filmmakers to create a film over 1 weekend. Friday Night - We’ll get the elements then write a script. Saturday - We shoot all day then start logging footage. Sunday - We edit. A movie will be made. This should be fun!!48hourfauxproject
Editing 24P in Final Cut Pro
The advent of 24p cameras like the Panasonic DVX100A and the Canon XL-2 has provided filmmakers with exciting new creative possibilities. 24p is a method of photographing 24 frames per second and then recording to DV tape, giving the high-end look of film with the ease and economy of standard DV.
This has also led to some confusion when handling 24p material in Final Cut Pro. The main concept...
You’ll now be set with the correct capture and sequence settings. Let’s take a closer look at what these settings do.
2. In the Capture Tab of our Audio/Video settings, the frame rate chosen by this preset is 29.97. At the bottom of the Summary it should read: Removal of Advanced Pulldown and/or Duplicate Frames from Firewire Sources is enabled.
This is the key to the whole process: the footage must first be captured intact at 29.97 from Firewire, and then the proper frames can be removed by FCP after capture to result in true 24p footage.
3. Create a New Sequence and look at the Sequence Settings. The editing timebase is 23.98 and the Field Dominance drop down is greyed out. We can now edit 24p material in its native format.
4. Let’s take a look at the new sequence.
We should see no rendering required. If red render bars appear above any footage on the timeline, go back through your sequence and capture presets and confirm the above settings match. Also make sure the footage was shot using the 24p Advanced mode of the camera.
“Google shuts down video service”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Google shuts down video service
My Tool Box (Software)
People constantly ask me what kind of special tricks I have up my sleeve. Well Here is finally a list of Applications and plugins that I use on a daily basis.
Final Cut Studio 2
After Effects CS3
Cs3 Suite
Cinema 3D
Proanimator
Magic Bullet, Editors plugins
Shake
Logic
ProTools
On Flix Pro 2
Cleaner
Toast
Fijnal Draft av
DVDXDV
Quick Time Pro
Snapz Pro
Sound Soap
Final Cut Studio 2
A complete and polished video-editing package that, with the exception of users who require Blu-ray capabilities, will serve any professional extraordinarily well.
Very deep and comprehensive feature set. AVCHD support. Excellent motion stabilization. Color grading. Multitrack audio editing. Good integration of critical components.
PCMAG
Tech Boom 2.0
pownce, twitter, jaiku, tumblr, these are just a few new sites that have sparked my interest in the past year. It seems like there are more and more startups springing up by the second. Are we in the midst of another dot com boom? I think so, the… Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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firewire 800 on new imacs!
Notice anything interesting about the newly released iMacs? All of the models now come with a firewire 800 port. It seems like only a year ago that Apple added firewire 800 back to the top of the line iMac. It’s nice to see the keep supporting firewire 800. Now if only we could get more periphials to support it.
Business 2.0 has listed 25 startups →
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freelancer blog
Ahhhhh the life of a freelancer.
Phone calls at all hours. Excusing yourself from dinner to send an urgent file over to a client. Enjoying a spring Saturday in front of the computer when all your friends are playing outside.
Contrary to what many people believe, freelancing is not mid-day golf trips, clocking out at 3:00 pm and vacation taken at will. It is working harder than you ever have...
My Next Venture →
08 has something in store for all of yawl,
Cant say much yet but Its going to change the way
you view the internet
01-08-08
Fake Steve Busted
Looks like the New York Times found out who our pal Fake Steve is: Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes. Wow, how anticlimactic. It’s ok Dan, they may have found you but they can’t kill the idea of FSJ, disappointing though it may be that the mystery’s been solved.
fichey →
cool way to search Digg
Ms Dewey →
Ask ms Dewey something and she reacts and shows you links.
New Top 5 start ups to try out
1) pownce
2) 8apps
3) myskitch
4) fairtilizer
5) tumblr