How TED Learned That ‘Giving It (their talks) Away’ Increased Both Popularity And Revenue http://tinyurl.com/4qo4g6k
Category: General
Piracy Once Again Fails To Get In Way Of Record Box Office http://tinyurl.com/5stn339
It seems strange to me that the various movie company players continually bleet how piracy is killing their industry and yet – even without changing business models – they still have record year after record year. Something just doesn’t add up.
Larry Jordan answers questions from a fan about the new Final Cut Pro.
Greg was bored last night while I was at Alpha Dog’s Editors’ Lounge and started exploring Xtranormal and came up with this.
This must have been what it was like for Larry Jordan at LAFCPUG Wednesday night!
Note, that all you need to do to create these is type in the words.
After 6 years and 724 posts gets an updated theme, thanks to Greg Clarke.
More information on the home page and you can slide out the information on the right for a cleaner reading experience.
Master Metadata for Post-Production – 2 Mar 2011, 11:00 AM EST #webinar http://t.co/NXv0XvZ
It’s repeated during the day.
With the advent of high quality acquisition tools for relatively little money, is there really a role for the highest quality production outside of niches?
Terry and I have different understandings and it makes for an interesting show.
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Attack of the Minis
Attack of the Minis http://tinyurl.com/46an3wm
Light Peak is an interesting technology and one I want to see sooner rather than later. Essentially it’s one connector for all purposes: peripherals (storage, i/o), networking (short distances in first release, longer later) and a replacement for the connectors we use now (which will largely work with adapters. The only protocol that may not run over Light Peak is USB 3, but USB 1 & 2; FireWire 400/800, eSATA, SAS ethernet and Fibre Channel could all be replaced with a single Light Peak connection at 10 Gbits/sec.
Nice To See How Content Creators Have More Power Over Middlemen http://tinyurl.com/4uze8py
One of the primary pieces of advice from Distribution U’s Peter Broderick an Scott Kirsner is that independents should never assign all their rights to one distributor who then controls their fate. This requires a custom distribution strategy tailored to each project, but ultimately with the filmmaker having a lot more control.
If You’re Still Betting On Adobe Flash For Anything Mobile, The Joke’s On You http://tinyurl.com/4f6kczp
Flash on the desktop has become bearable thanks to hardware acceleration, but no matter what Adobe says publicly, they have not been able to deliver a version of Flash on any mobile device that has acceptable performance and battery life.
Online Consumption of Pro Video Up 47% in 2010 http://tinyurl.com/62zf3ok