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Alright if you didn’t get to go here is small taste of some knowledge dropped on me.

Magic Bullet Tweaks

If you’re not using Magic Bullet Looks in your edits by now… well it’s time to get your head in the game. I picked up a few tasty tidbits this week.
1. If your viewer in Looks is brighter than in FCP, drop your gamma down to 1.8 in the looks preference.
2. All the Looks filters will be available as individual FCP filters in a free update over the summer.
3. Saving your looks and emailing them to friends is what all good editors do for each other…

Panasonic’s New Line

Panasonic stepped it up this year with a new codec they built with Sony called AVCHD. This has been around for a while, but it is just now getting full support in the panasonic line. What’s it mean? Well we can now pack a $600 consumer level camera in our bags and pick up some beautiful HD shots that our big-time cams just can’t hit. (think dashboards cams, mic mounted cams, ceiling cams….)

On top of that, the new Panasonic 170 is awesome. A slight step up from the 200. Better chip set, faster lens, HD SDI out, and most notably no miniDV. This is an all P2 cam and it’s sweet.

Avid Is Still Lame

Ok not really, I just needed an inflammatory headline… Avid dropped out of NAB this year along with Apple. We went over to the Hard Rock Casino to see their presentation. It underwhelmed to say the least. Now don’t get me wrong they have some promising new hardware out there that looks like it can process some heavy weight footage better than FCP. But they JUST NOW gave you the freedom to move clips around the timeline… and separate audio and video in the timeline…. ??

Come on Avid that was innovation in 96… this is 2008. Considering I have personally thrown an Avid Mojo directly in the trash after the third one from the factory stopped working… I will never return to Avid again.

Ok enough tech talk, regular stupid stories will be back on the site shortly. If you have any questions about NAB hit me up…