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DejaSoft Launches Collaborative Editing Solution
Allows editors to transfer media files and timelines around the world
Avid Media Composer
Expertise
Video Technology 2020 – Editing Software
Four editing applications dominate the professional market: Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer, and Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve. Established...
How To
“Marriage Story” Editor Jennifer Lame on Her “Stacking” Method of Cutting Dialogue Scenes
Lame describes her method of "stacking," where she and director Noah Baumbach go line-by-line in a scene, choose their favorite line reading, and then...
The Wire
Emmy Award-winning Boris FX Sapphire Releases 2020 Version
The high-end visual effects plugin suite adds industry-standard OpenColorIO support, trendy Instagram-worthy effect, new Mocha parameter tracking and improved masking tools, and faster renders
News and Features
Methodology and Madness: Editing ‘The Favourite’
"Through our many years of collaboration we have developed a very precise method of work," says Yorgos Lanthimos's editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis. "The process is...
News
Seneca College Chooses Avid
Unifies media creation and production teaching tools on Avid platform
News and Features
All Aboard: Post Mysteries Solved for ‘Murder on the Orient Express’
'Murder on the Orient Express' editor Mick Audsley talks to Neal Romanek about collaborating with Kenneth Branagh, a 65mm workflow and how sometimes it's...
News and Features
Neighborhood Watch: Postproduction on Dark Satire ‘Suburbicon’
'Suburbicon' combines an unproduced Coen Brothers screenplay with the story of an African-American couple moving to Levittown, Pa., in the summer of 1957.
News and Features
Cut to the Chase: Editing the Action on Set for ‘Baby Driver’
An in-depth discussion with editor Paul Machliss, ACE, about his work on director Edgar Wright's 'Baby Driver.'
Video Edge
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Developing a New Vision of Dystopia for the Hulu Series
With tons of broadcast, web and OTT outlets for dramatic television, there's a greater opportunity than ever for American audiences to be exposed to...
News and Features
Does Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 14 Pose a Threat to Avid, Adobe or Apple?
Blackmagic Design’s just-announced DaVinci Resolve 14 has added robust sound-editing features, making it an even more compelling NLE at a price point that’s hard...
News and Features
Avid Exec Explains Avid’s Free New NLE, Media Composer | First
In an interview from the NAB Show 2017 show floor, Digital Production Buzz’s Larry Jordan interviews Avid’s VP for marketing solutions, Alan Hoff. Hoff discusses Avid’s...
News and Features
Avid Unveils Free Version of Media Composer
Avid has announced the upcoming availability of Avid Media Composer | First, a free version of their signature video editing system. Media Composer | First...
News and Features
Timelines on ‘Voyage of Time’: Editing Terrence Malick’s History of the Universe
"This is Terry’s ode to the Earth," says co-editor Keith Fraase.
Slideshow
‘La La Land’: Magic, Music and Media Management
As well as being a common euphemism for Los Angeles, La La Land is the name of writer/director Damien Chazelle’s newest film, a musical...
News and Features
Media Composer Tutorial for Premiere Pro Users
Avid is releasing a free new tutorial series called “Get Started Fast with Media Composer for Adobe Editors,” designed to get Premiere Pro editors...
News
Revenge, Regret and Art: Finding the Three-Pronged Rhythm of ‘Nocturnal Animals’
"The key was to find a fluid and creative way to transition from one storyline to the other, to link those moments emotionally or...
Slideshow
‘Captain Fantastic’: Forming a Narrative for the Imaginative Independent Feature
In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, the rugged, unconventional Ben Cash (played by Viggo Mortensen) raises his six children to be resilient and...
News and Features
Free Webinar: Media Composer Tips, Tricks & Techniques, Aug. 30
On August 30th, Scott Simmons will be presenting a free webinar all about Avid Media Composer, which will take a tour through some of Media...
News and Features
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: Documenting the Innovation and Influence of Eva Hesse
"Because it’s a film about art and artists, who are very controlled in their work, I wanted the look of the interviews to have...
News and Features
U2 Live: Multicamera Editing With Avid
In a blog post on Avid, editor Guy Harding discusses cutting major multi-camera projects, like a live U2 concert and the Super Bowl Halftime...
News
Avid ScriptSync Helps ‘The Nice Guys’ Editor Find the Funny
The Nice Guys editor Joel Negron talks to Film Merit about cutting Shane Black’s ’70s-set raucous buddy cop comedy. “When the footage started to...
News and Features
Webinar: Advanced Color Correction with Baselight & Avid, June 15
Technicolor-PostWorks NY presents this exclusive new webinar in which their team discusses their color correction workflow, and demonstrates how Media Composer and the Baselight plug-in...
News and Features
How the Four Major NLEs Can Center a Post-Production Workflow
Oliver Peters writes up four workflows each using Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Avid Media Composer, Apple Final Cut Pro X, or Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve...