When cutting together a documentary (or pretty much anything, to be honest), you don’t usually have just a single clip. Usually there are different clips, and different portions of those clips, here, there and everywhere.… Your transcripts are out of order! This whole timeline’s out of order!
With Transcriptive, our new tool for doing automated transcriptions, we’ve dove into the world of A.I. headfirst. So I’m pretty familiar with where the state of industry is right now. We’ve been neck deep in… Artificial Intelligence vs. Video Editors
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning are changing how video editors deal with some common problems. 1) how do you get accurate transcriptions for captions or subtitles? And 2) how do you find something in… How Doc Filmmakers Are using A.I. to Create Captions and Search Footage in Premiere Pro
Posture Exercises: The Good and The Bad There are a lot of books out there on how to deal with back pain. Most of them are relatively similar and have good things to say.… Back Care for Video Editors Part 3: Posture Exercises: The Good and The Bad
Go to Part 1 in the Back Care series Most folks know how to pick up a heavy box. Squat down, keep your back reasonably flat and upright and use your legs to lift.… Computers and Back Care part 2: Forward Bending
Software developers, like video editors, sit a lot. I’ve written before about my challenges with Repetitive Stress Problems and how I dealt with them. (Awesome chair, great ergonomics, and a Wacom tablet). These problems… Taking Care of Your Back for Video Editors, Part 1: The Chair
One key way of speeding up the Flicker Free plugin is putting it first in the order of effects. What does this mean? Let’s say you’re using the Lumetri Color Corrector in Premiere. You… Speeding Up Flicker Free: The Order You Apply Plugins in Your Video Editing App
I’ve written about this before, but Forbes recently wrote a couple awesome pieces taking down San Francisco’s Academy of Art, really spelling out why for-profit art schools are such an overpriced scam. And they are.… Don’t Go To Art School, Especially for Video/Film/VFX
I’ve written about this before, but Thanksgiving came along this year and I left on a 5 day, two city trip without my Wacom tablet. Which reminded me exactly why I’m thankful for the… Wacom Tablets and Repetitive Stress Injuries
It’s been almost 4 years since the last update of FCP 7. The last officially supported OS was 10.6.8. It’s time to move on people. Beauty Box Video 4.0 (due out in a month) will… FCP 7 Is Dead. It’s Time to Move On.