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"Many people said we were mad and that what we were trying to do couldn't be done. We proved them all wrong."
"It’s unreasonable to expect that there will be no teething problems with using a new editing system but I was rather fortunate to miss the most difficult period of the first three days as I was on the road with the crew for the three Stages that wound their way down from Yorkshire to London. Notwithstanding the fact that I had watched three seamless highlights shows on each of those evenings, I was expecting to arrive at Ealing Studios and feel like one of those new Marines marching in to find a lot of bloodied combat veterans with thousand yard stares.At the end of my first day in the edit I was only half joking when I said “ I don’t know what all the fuss was about. Piece of cake”.
Editing the Tour de France on Final Cut Pro X
"Entertainment One’s footprint in the Canadian production landscape increased again"
eOne has been on an investment and acquisition streak of late, recently acquiring another West Coast producer, Paperny Entertainment, home entertainment distributor Phase 4 Films, and investing in Toronto digital powerhouse Secret Location.
eOne acquires Force Four Entertainment
"We really can't just be a how-to channel anymore."
In a market where many networks are scrambling for a homegrown hit, HGTV Canada boasts a startling number of highly rated Canuck shows (the network's licence dictates that 50 per cent of its shows be Canadian). Eight out of the top 10 shows on the network during the winter/spring 2014 season were Canadian, among them "Timber Kings," "Canada's Handyman Challenge" and "Leave it To Bryan."
How HGTV Canada built a specialty powerhouse and a global following
Yes. I’m tooting my own horn a bit.
"It's 1973 all over again and that's no bad thing"
From the BBC;
Richard Beech, in the Mirror, agreed Capaldi had "all the hallmarks of a great Doctor".He called the 80-minute opening episode, entitled Deep Breath, "an impeccable debut"."If you watched Deep Breath and you don't want to watch the rest of series 8, then there truly is something wrong with you," he wrote.
Critics hail Peter Capaldi's Doctor Who debut
I enjoyed it. Not the best episode ever, but I’m certainly interested to see where it goes.
“The way of watching TV is morphing. It’s evolving with time and we don’t want to be stuck in a regulatory framework"
Consumers could wind up with many more choices about what they watch on TV and how they pay for it, given sweeping new proposals from the country’s broadcast regulator announced Thursday.
CRTC proposes pick-and-pay TV plan in draft paper prior to September hearing
The section to pay attention to is this...
For the first time, broadcasters could be allowed to count what they spend on original programming produced for the Internet toward what they are required to spend on Canadian programming. According to the draft, this would encourage broadcasters to make more Canadian content online. And it proposes allowing television stations and networks to count revenues from online or other delivery platforms toward their overall revenue base.
"Both companies need a strategy to woo new customers, as traditional cable sales are flat"
Although the company is a joint venture of Shaw and Rogers, it will operate as a stand-alone entity. With almost one third of anglophone Canadians already subscribing to Netflix, it will be a struggle for the service to attain a significant subscriber base.
Rogers, Shaw launch rival Netflix-like service Shomi
Good luck with that.
"The Motion Picture Editors Guild and Mark Burnett’s Island Post Productions have finalized an agreement in principle to unionize postproduction staff"
editors’ wages never were an issue in this dispute, assistants and loggers will see pay increases. Overall, the work schedule and compensation for all post staff will move to an 8-hour day and 40-hour week. Before, editors’ individual contracts had been on a day rate, regardless of hours worked or if they worked a weekday or weekend day. The tentative agreement transforms that into an 8-hour day, 5-day week. Overtime of time-and-a-half will go into effect after eight hours worked, as is standard in union shops. It goes into double time after 12 hours worked.
‘Survivor’ Editors Win IATSE Contract With Mark Burnett Company
Read: "The Art of Film Editing" P.O.V. Issue 6
the splice, in cinema, has more dialectical properties. It serves not merely as a pause or cæsura - something that separates or provides a brief breathing space - but on the contrary something that joins: "syntactic" in the root sense of the word. And if we are talking about magic, the magic of cinema is surely sensed to lie here: in the strange alchemy arising out of the juxtaposition of images
Taken from Issue 6 of P.O.V., dedicated to the subject of Editing.
"Global TV advertising spend is set to reach US$236 billion in 2020"
The biggest TV ad market gains between 2010 and 2020 are tipped to come from Latin America and the Middle East and Africa where ad spend is expected to double.
TV ad revenues to near $240bn in 2020
The numbers are not interesting. Where the numbers are growing is very interesting.
"It’s interesting to see that in spite of a lot of press, the Avid Everywhere concept still results in confusion."
This vision positions Avid’s products as a “platform”, in the same way that Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Apple hardware and PC hardware are all platforms. Within this platform concept, the products become stratified into product tiers or “suites”. Bear in mind that “suite” really refers to a group of products and not specifically a collection of hardware or software that you purchase as a single unit. The base layer of this platform contains the various software hooks that tie the products together – for example, APIs required to use Media Composer software with Interplay asset management or in an ISIS SAN environment. This is called the Avid MediaCentral Platform.
Avid Everywhere
“It’s interesting to see...” No, it’s not. It’s obvious.
The idea is contrived and complicated, just like the software the company releases. Avid can barely manage to write functional software, the idea of them creating a “platform” is hilarious.
"It's about building an audience that is loyal," she said. "And if you want to be loyal to them, you can't just sell them everything. They're not stupid."
"The potential for a YouTube creator to become a global star has increased, and that opens up all sorts of new doors," said Jamie Byrne, YouTube's director of content commercialization. But "the core of their popularity, and the core of their fan base, is really driven by their activities on YouTube."
YouTube's biggest stars are cashing in offline
"Folks are looking at work in boxes of some of Andy’s film that probably hasn’t been seen since he shot it.”
"The VIFF Film and Television Forum has a new name, VIFF Industry"
This year’s forum will see more industry guests and speakers from LA., and will expand its focus from film and television to broad-based screen entertainment, in recognition of Vancouver’s growing visual effects, animation and gaming industries.VIFF Industry also wants to promote Vancouver as a production and post-production centre, by participating in trade missions, for example, and helping to facilitate international co-productions, in particular with India and China.
Vancouver film festival revamps its focus
This is unfortunate. While I’ve been very critical of VIFF’s programming for the past 10 years or so, turning into an “industry” promotional tool is not the way to make things better.
“People stayed on the job yesterday out of respect for the long relationship with the show, but respect has to go both ways,”
"Our automated editing method uses this as a signal indicating what action is most significant at any given time."
"The resulting videos might not have the same narrative or technical complexity that a human editor could achieve, but they capture the essential action and, in our experiments, were often similar in spirit to those produced by professionals," said Ariel Shamir, an associate professor of computer science at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel, and a member of the Disney Research Pittsburgh team.
New method automatically edits footage from cameras into coherent videos
via Fast Company
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