Please add a comment with a feature you predict will be in the next version of Final Cut Pro, and you’ll have a chance to win a the Final Cut Studio 4 upgrade!

Here are the contest rules:

• You can post a prediction, or a wish!
• There is a FIVE PREDICTION LIMIT PER PERSON!
• Vote other people’s comments up or down by clicking the balloon!
• The winner will not be determined by who is right. The winner will be chosen on how many “points” their  [read more →]
  

At this point, there are several choices for HDSLRs, but my philosophy is this:

If your budget is limited at all, spend the minimum on the camera and spend the money where it will really count– on the other goodies that really make an impact, like lenses, (especially lenses!), a decent tripod, mics, lights, stabilizers, dollies or jibs, and other valuable and essential tools of the trade.

If you are an expert cinematographer, the viewers of your final video project won’t have  [read more →]

9. Career: Film & Video Editor

Median Salary: $63,680

With YouTube now hosting more searches per day than any site save Google (GOOG), the need for film and video editors is clear. The California Labor Dept. expects the field to grow in 2011, as agencies, media firms, corporations, and institutions look to spread their messages via video—so don’t limit your search to one sector. This field requires specialized training, of course. It makes a great choice for creative types who want to  [read more →]

by Jocelyn K. Glei

Here, with the help of our readers, we’ve rounded up some of the best videos on idea execution from artists, writers, designers, storytellers, researchers, and chocolatiers.

via 10 Awesome Videos On Idea Execution & The Creative Process :: Articles :: The 99 Percent.

The IPad 1 & 2 For Digital Visualmakers

by Paul Antico - via The iPad 1 & 2 for Digital Visualmakers – Blog – NeedCreative.

I’ll admit it up front: I love Apple products. I find the elegance in their use and design, the software and hardware integration, their near ubiquitousness in the Creative community, and the just plain “cool” factor of owning Apple products very satisfying. However, in the end what makes me most attracted to Apple products is that for the most  [read more →]

The conversation about the shift from “old” to “new” media usually goes something like this: 1) the media business has fundamentally changed; 2) media companies need to think in new ways due to the problems of fragmentation, the attention economy and a whole range of platforms; 3) those that adapt to the new will win; those that won’t, will fold – and they deserve it too.

So the advice from new media gurus is always the same: existing media companies –  [read more →]

Filmmakers have long been using Google SketchUp Pro to map out complicated scenes, camera moves, and set designs — according to Google, the $495 program has been used for planning shots for projects including Inception, 300, The Social Network, and Tron: Legacy. Offering robust 3D visualization without the complexity of real 3D toolsets, SketchUp has proved itself so useful as a previs tool that it’s hard to believe that the core functionality for filmmakers, a “Film & Stage” plug-in that dates  [read more →]

CoreMeltFREE! Offers 33 plugins from all our products including:

Click on the plugin names for more info.

ImageFlow FX:
Multipop Forward, Filmstrip, Carousel, Continuous Random Pan, Image Grid

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Use these free royalty free music tracks & free sound effects for any production – advertising, education, video, photos, YouTube…etc.

These royalty free instrumental music tracks can be looped seamlessly & repeated to create a longer background music track for your projects.

You only need to provide an active credit link to their website from yours stating: 
Royalty free production music by JewelBeat

Windows: Right-click, choose “Save Link As…”, choose destination to save file.
MAC: Hold down Control key and click, choose  [read more →]

iPad Photography App: Movie★Slate: Adorama Photography TV from AdoramaTV on Vimeo.

Movie★Slate (Clapperboard & Shot Log) for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store.

How do I export a high quality movie from Final Cut Pro 7 or Express?

Once you’re finished with your edit, how should you export?

Well, it depends. Here are three methods:

METHOD #1. Reference movie

If you want to export a temporary movie as quickly as possible, export a reference movie.

1. File > Export > Quicktime Movie

2. UNcheck “Make Self-Contained”

Pros:

• Fastest export
• The file size is small – it only contains audio and pointers to  [read more →]
  

by Kara Swisher

To those who care intensely about this kind of stuff–which would be pretty much everyone in the tech ecosystem–Apple will hold its much-anticipated event on March 2, where the tech giant seems poised to unveil a new version of its hugely successful iPad, according to multiple sources.

As in, iPad 2! Or, as BoomTown is now officially nicknaming it: iPad Too!

Analysts expect the iPad 2 to be thinner than its predecessor and feature an improved display, as well as  [read more →]

http://vimeo.com/18630329

Snow Leopard ships with a cut-down version of QuickTime. As video editors, we’re used to being able to export multiple formats from QuickTime, but the standard QuickTime Player no longer has the ‘Export’ menu option.

The workaround for this is to install QuickTime Player 7 from the OSX install disk. Heres a MicroTip video which explains how to do it.

via Simon Walker Freelance – Tutorials.

FCP Tutorial: The Down and Dirty Slideshow or “how to create a slideshow in a minute and a half”

Sometimes being “the video editor” is like being the “friend with the truck”…people start asking favors of you. “Oh, you’re a video editor…that’s great because I really need a video made for my church…my cousin’s bar mitzvah…..my daughters wedding.” And when it happens, one of the biggest requests I get is to make a video slideshow.

People just seem  [read more →]

Abba Shapiro, from Future Media Concepts, shows in this movie:

Beachtek’s DXA-SLR is a portable, compact, dockable, dual-channel mixer designed specifically for outputting to DSLR cameras or to any camcorder or other recording device with an 1/8” mini-plug audio input jack. It’s flat black, made of sturdy die-cast aluminum and weighs only 12 oz. without a battery. It’s squarish in shape and very compact, measuring just 4.25” x 4” x 1.75”. It includes a dual-channel 48v power supply and is powered by a single 9-volt alkaline or  [read more →]

So you’ve had all these ideas for shoots, webisodes, shorts, films or whatever, right?  But you figured, what’s the point, why produce them, it’s too much work!  Well, lets negate the negativity and take a look at this positive success story for inspiration.  These guys, had a vision, shot and executed it, put it up on YouTube, and now they’re getting a TV show.  No reason why you can’t get do the same.

GET CREATING!!!!

(via YouTube Star Epic Meal  [read more →]

If you’re a small business owner aside from being a DVcreator, then you might find this article interesting.  Small business owners are seeing great results by adding a video to their website’s landing page.

So that means, use your DVcreator skills to make a great video which could help your small business make more money!

“Video Works For Small Business Advertising”

While many of you surely dabble in pay-per-click advertising, you’re really here for the stats on video, aren’t you? Well,  [read more →]

By Carl Mrozek

While HD-capable DSLRs offer phenomenal video quality in a compact package at an affordable price, audio recording is somewhat of a challenge and remains the weak link in the production loop. A key factor is that DSLR onboard mics are so small that they make lavs look big, and the only audio input is mini-pin, which is mono with no headphone jack or other audio monitoring option.

Using a pro mic of any kind, especially a shotgun, with DSLRs  [read more →]

Here’s a quick guide to getting that DVD from Compressor onto a menuless (?menu-less?) DVD video.

With the default DVD presets in Compressor, you will get these files- a .ac3 (dolby digital) file for the audio and a .m2v file which is short for Mpeg-2 video:

DVDs require elementary streams, which are separate video and audio only files, and will then be “mux-ed” to a DVD as .vob (video object) files. You can open the mpeg-2 video file with Quicktime Player or  [read more →]

Everyone’s looking for ways to take their video and make it more social. No one is after traditional views anymore–haven’t you heard? Social views are where it’s at. A viewer is just that… someone who views. A social viewer, however, is someone who views your video and then shares it with friends and family over Facebook, email, or Twitter. Social views are more powerful because of their influence and ability to lead to more views.

A new study out  [read more →]

Do you own a great piece of video that you thought to yourself, “man, what if I could sell this as stock video?”  Well, you might be able to.  Opportunities are available to sell your videos to stock video companies and make royalties off of licensing fees when someone downloads your clip.

So how do you do this?

When interviewed about how to make money selling stock video content, Jim Goertz, Director of Content Development for video at istockphoto.com said,

“I’m not going  [read more →]

Newspaper sites have overtaken broadcaster sites in the number of videos uploaded, according to a report by Brightcove and TubeMogul.

Its quarterly report, which analysed a sample of US-based and global Brightcove customers for Q3 2010, found that newspaper sites streamed 313m minutes of video in the quarter, compared with 290m minutes uploaded by broadcasters.

Newspapers saw 51% growth in video content, surpassing broadcasters for total minutes streamed for the first time, suggesting that newspapers are quickly adapting their once print-dominated businesses  [read more →]

TriCaster to deliver coverage of X Games to fans in the audience and online.

NewTek, a worldwide leader of video and 3D animation products, today announced that its signature streaming product, the award-winning TriCaster portable live production system, will be used to produce and live stream extensive coverage of the ESPN Winter X Games 15 from Aspen, CO, from January 27-30. Fans attending the X Games will be able to watch events on the in-venue video boards  [read more →]

Today, your average TV might have connected to it a cable or satellite box, a DVD and/or Blu Ray player, a gaming device like an xBox, PlayStation or Wii, a DVR, and maybe even a Roku, Apple TV or Boxee box, all ensconced in an HDMI cable spaghetti mess with a bevy of remotes to match.

This is completely crazy.

STOP THE MADNESS!

This is the past of television. This is not the future.

The future is, ONE remote, ONE box.  [read more →]

Being a digital video creator used to be for the artistic or creative film making individuals that wanted to bring a little Hollywood into their personal world, but nowadays, thanks to the internet that has changed.

In today’s era, small businesses and corporations can utilize webcasts to reach and interact with their current customers, as well as reaching out to potential customers in a way that was never available to them before.

In this Yahoo news article, the author explains  [read more →]

Joshua Tree Under the Milky Way from Henry Jun Wah Lee on Vimeo.

We couldn’t be more impressed with the way the Gizmodo community has pushed their photography skills with Shooting Challenges. So today, we’re expanding the idea with a once-a-month expansion called the Video Challenge. Our first topic: time lapse.

So How Will This Work?

With the existing Shooting Challenge, you get a little under a week to email us your photos that we feature and  [read more →]

Thoughts on the Road Ahead for Creative Professionals

In recent years, I believe that technology has been a little reckless with creative professionals. In many ways, technology has (shockingly) been obstructing productive creative careers. Crowdsourcing spec contests, the lack of proper attribution for most creative talent displayed online, and inefficient services for career management – just  to name a few.

But my team and I at Behance see the tide turning. We believe that technology and the latest shifts in creative industries  [read more →]

The JustFilms initiative will invest $10 million a year in film, video and digital works “that show courageous people confronting difficult issues and actively pursuing a more just, secure and sustainable world.”

via Ford Foundation Commits $50 Million to Films With Social Purpose | Digital Media Wire.

You know what that means don’t you?  Get out your gear.  Swipe through your contact list, and collaborate with your creative friends and associates… Because there’s money to be made creating digital video.   [read more →]

As businesses and the world itself embrace social networking for marketing and brand awareness, the creation and distribution of digital video content has never been hotter.

With more and more companies trying to jump into the social networking/viral video game, more and more opportunities will be available for talented Digital Video creators with the tenacity and drive to “find the money.”  Ask around, network and look for companies trying to jump into  [read more →]