After our own DV Gear Talk Video Podcast got as high as #12 in popularity of all podcasts worldwide, people asked for this article, so here it is!

Features: * Deinterlace movies (half height/normal height/double frame rate/blend,adaptive/simple). * Change field dominance (for PAL films with fake interlace). * Reinterlace from one or two movies. * Standards conversion (PAL< ->NTSC or custom). * Inverse telecine. * Trim, shift, simple color correction, noise reduction. * Change encoding (RGB gamma, video range/full range). * Fix jagged [...]

Article on Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (first stop-motion feature film cut on FCP)

In a word: lighting. The DV Enlightenment DVD

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What looks to be a nice upgrade to this cross-platform, open source 3D modeling, rendering and animation software. And it’s free! http://www.blender.org/cms/Blender_2_40.598.0.html

Here are 12 Companies that own TV stations and the change in their stock price in 2005. (Hint: Broadcast television might not be the best field in which to plan your future…) Belo (BLC): -11.6% Emmis (EMS): +8.7% Fisher (FSCI): -3.1% Gannett (GCI): -24.2% Gray (GTN): -38% Hearst-Argyle (HTV): -6.9% Media General (MEG): -17% Meredith [...]

I am going to start a series of articles detailing new ways to think about video production in the 21st century. The old paradigm of “hey, please hire me to shoot and edit your video for $X (or $X/hour)” is still quite valid and will be perhaps forever. But there are new, different ways to [...]

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Try holding down the “option” key instead of the “C” key For some reason, holding down the “C” key at startup does not always work to force booting from media that is in your Mac’s optical drive. In these cases, holding down the “option” key at startup (which, when functioning normally, displays all available startup [...]

This page and this one have great lists of free Final Cut Pro plugins. Here’s a list of plugins from Toolfarm. Here are some free FCP Transitions and Filters from Graeme Nattress.

This site is offering free stock footage clips that are royalty free. They’re in AVI format, so if you’re using Quicktime, you’ll have to convert, but the quality will remain: http://www.footagefirm.com/footage/freeclips/index.htm More free video stock: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp http://www.resolume.com/footage/archive.php vj loops: http://www.archive.org/details/68_Vintage_Fairlight_VJ_Loops_by_VJzoo http://www.archive.org/details/100_Funfair_VJ_Loops_by_VJzoo http://www.archive.org/details/68_Urban_Vector_VJ_Loops_by_VJzoo