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Join MediaSilo, Oasis (and me) for Free Metadata Event in LA

RT @zbutcher: Join MediaSilo & Oasis for FREE event in LA http://eepurl.com/cdZ4T

Metadata is crucial in today’s ever-changing, competitive post production environment. New, exciting tools continue to emerge. Trying to sort through it all? Join us for a special event in LA onJanuary 27 @ 6:30.

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The Terence and Philip Show Episode 17

The Terence and Philip Show Episode 17 is now out http://tinyurl.com/4qccjl2

In this episode, Terence and Philip – with able assistance from Secret HQ’s Greg Huson – take a look back on what changed in 2010: cheaper (and great) technology, large sensors, 3D, the state of the business, distribution options and more.

There’s a lot in this show from Resolve to dissolve.

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When All Content Is Personalized who needs TV networks?

When All Content Is Personalized, Who Needs TV Networks http://tinyurl.com/4rl3b3r

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Light Peak “ready to go” says Intel

Light Peak “ready to go” says Intel http://tinyurl.com/2vdqoyu

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Turner CEO: how he’s anti-customers and wants to encourage piracy.

Turner CEO: how he’s anti-customer and wants to encourage piracy http://tinyurl.com/2bzx64m

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Sloppy Math is good for video analysis?

Sloppy Math is good for video analysis? http://tinyurl.com/22kpvp6 Better content detection = better metadata for us to use in software.

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New version of Sequence Clip Reporter reports JPEGs

New version of Sequence Clip Reporter now offers JPEG “thumbs” for all Clip in-points (optionally) as a folder of images at the selected size from thumbnail up to 640 x 480/360 (for 4:3 and 16:9 respectively)  http://tinyurl.com/35yojfg

Sequence Clip Reporter is our tool for taking a Final Cut Pro sequence and generating a wide variety of Clip reports for music reporting, stock footage, etc with reel-by-reel, filter and marker reports all available.

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If you have an iPhone 4 I thoroughly recommend a Glif!

If you hae an iPhone 4 I thoroughly recommend a Glif http://www.theglif.com/

The Glif is a tiny (fits in pocket) tripod adapter and stand – I was using it tonight to angle the iPhone so I could watch some TED video while barbecuing  our steaks. (I know it’s after Labor Day but I still like a nicely done steak.)

The Glif is an amazing piece of design, and the injection mold for mass production was crowd-funded via Kickstarter.com.

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Had an Epic in my hands today!

Had an Epic in my hands today at BandPro’s One World event.

It’s amazingly small and lighter than you’d expect.

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The studios will lose the “war with Netflix”

The studios will lose the “war” with Netflix http://t.co/zzHT0kh From Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog

A very insightful article on why Netflix more truly connects with its customers than the “studios” do, and why that maters:

The first rule of Media 2.0 is that you ignore consumers at your own peril. The people formerly known as the audience are now fully in charge, as Rishad Tobbaccowala noted in 2004:

We’ve entered an era in which consumers are God, because technology allows them to be godlike. How will you engage God?

This strikes at the heart of all that is disrupting media, for legacy media has a history of ignoring consumers in the name of revenue growth. It’s a blind spot that threatens everything today and will continue to do so.