The present and future of post production business and technology

Month: June 2019

  • Has editing digitally reduced our ability to visualize?

    When I think back to the days of editing tape to tape you had to both visualize how the series of shots were going to edit, but you also had to keep in mind and plan the current, previous and next edits at once. It was hard to go back and “trim” an edit! It…

  • If Production were Food Service

    I’ve long struggled with a good way of expressing the diverse range of work that’s done under the banner of “professional production.” Then inspiration hit me at last month’s LACPUG meeting when I discovered that Blackmagic Design Product Specialist Shawn Carlson used to be a chef in fine dining restaurants: What if we compared the…

  • Lumberjack Builder Supports Premiere Pro?

    Last Friday we released Builder 2.0, but we only sent out the press release today. Builder 2.0 works with FCP X XML as it always has, plus Premiere Pro XML from now on. Those who have followed Lumberjack, or my writing about it, from the start, this will seem like a major departure for a…