Another tip leading up to NAB 2023:
Can’t find your Hedge app’s license key? Can’t deactivate it since your computer was lost / stolen / returned as a rental after the shoot?
You can do it all from the Hedge License Manager!
It’s been a little over 3 years since I joined Hedge. It might sound corny, but reading Paul’s retrospective is equal parts thrilling, touching, and triumphant. I’m super proud to work alongside these people every day, and frequently find myself in awe of what they do.
Happy Hedge-iversary. 7️⃣ 🚀
Funny thing: Apple deprecated AFP all the way back in Mavericks, finally killed the server component in Big Sur, and yet… AFP shares are still faster, easier, and more stable than SMB on macOS.
Using AFP on your shared storage with Avid Media Composer? (Cue the John Cena theme) here’s… Mimiq… Proooo!
Have you tried EditReady’s Color Conversion? “What’s the big deal?”, you ask? 🤔 EditReady converts any RAW footage from ARRI, Sony, RED, or Blackmagic, into your chosen colorspace before applying the LUT. The result? Accurate and predictable color. 👌🏽
How about some tips leading up to NAB 2023?
For example, are you using Final Cut Pro in a remote workflow? Use Postlab’s built-in Sync client to distribute Motion Content among your Team. You can also share Effects and LUTs with Sync too!
THE FABELMANS… oh wow, THE FABELMANS.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you, Mr. Spielberg.
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You may laugh, but the Casa Bonita revival sounds legit.
From the choice of Chef Dana Rodriguez to the language classes for team members – the love for the food, the place, and its team are for real.
Shout out to Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
I know I’ll never have a big following, but I logged back into Twitter to update the Mastodon URL in my profile, scrolled a bit, and… nope!
TBH I was rootin' for Eddie Hamilton’s work on Top Gun: Maverick, but Paul Rogers' acceptance speech for Film Editing is one of my favorites in recent years.
Every editor’s hope for every project / client: “I hope I did right by you.” 🎯 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Wow… The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse took the Oscar! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Also a huge win for remote postproduction workflows powered by LucidLink. 👌🏽
I know I sound like @tvaziri@mastodon.social out here, but man do I love movies. 🍿🎞️
Wild tales in the world of filmmaking – Madness in Morocco: The Road to Ishtar
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Just discovered I can watch the Oscars on YouTube TV live. 🍿🎞️
This seems like a lifetime ago. vimeo.com/ijterrone…
Still one of my favorite pieces (straight outta Apple Motion). post.pro/fan-75424
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts looks like the best installment in a long time (if not ever), but a full-length feature like this fan film? 🤩
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How to Get Mastodon Verification for Your micro.blog
- Install the
Meta tagsplug-in. - Copy/paste this into
Meta tags > Settings-<link href="(Your Mastodon URL)" rel="me" /> - ✅
Thank you, Sven! 👉🏽 https://help.micro.blog/t/will-an-easy-way-to-add-rel-me-link-for-mastodon-be-added/1441
“My video editing app doesn’t do (whatever) so I’m switching to Resolve,” is the new, “My OS is terrible so I’m switching to Linux.”
Just watched S3:E1 of The Mandalorian and wondered, “How’s Shamook doing at ILM?”
Media Composer teams rejoice! MDVx (Media Database Viewer) received a quiet update in December 2022. Seems to be quite a few UI improvements and it’s Apple Silicon native. Get it! (It’s still 🆓! 🤯)
Friday Night Lights is an OK movie, but a dynamite TV series.
The pilot is a 10, the theme song is a 10, and even the ending is satisfying.
Also, Todd McMullen’s cinematography? Completely fitting. S1 in particular – still blows me away.
More proof of: who knows why anything works?
DEAR AVID - MAKE ONE VERSION OF MEDIA COMPOSER TO RULE THEM ALL
The fact that a movie or TV show gets made at all is a miracle, but that’s especially true when a team uses Media Composer in post-production.
Before you dismiss that, here! Check out Avid’s official Version Matrix for Media Composer.
If anyone bothers to read this, they’d discover Avid actively maintains multiple versions of Media Composer.
While Avid touts that as a positive, in reality:
- Each version has a different user experience.
- Each version’s UX is just different enough from the others to add mental overhead and/or needless context switching to the user.
- All of those versions are perceived as wildly different compared to what many teams still consider the gold standard: Media Composer
2018.12.15.
Recently, a couple of teams reported having trouble with Mimiq in their workflow. Each team uses MC 2020.12.x. Since both teams used older minor versions, we encouraged them to update MC to the latest minor. They did… except they both updated MC to 2020.12.8.
Go back to MC’s Version Matrix. Do you see 2020.12.8 listed here? Nope! Turns out 2020.12.8 is only available as a downloadable patch. Its sole purpose? To fix one bug where a previous build rendered third-party licensed plug-in’s unlicensed, which would crash MC on startup.
As someone who supports Media Composer on the daily now, my first instinct is to check this Version Matrix against Mimiq’s Requirements. If a version isn’t listed, we can’t support it. We don’t have any red phone partnership with Avid, so the intel we use to support MC is the same intel you have to support MC.
Someone at Avid may read this and say, “Got it. We’ll update the Version Matrix more frequently.” That’s not the point. It’s time to make the hard decision – choose 1 version of Media Composer and leave the rest behind. Old habits die hard, but when someone has to learn something completely new, only to face the prospect of learning something slightly newer, that just breeds needless anxiety and frustration.
If this sounds like a rant, consider this CNBC piece published in November 2022:
10 of the most high stress jobs in the U.S.―some pay as much as $208,000 a year
Number 1? A urologist. Number 2? Film and video editor. Number 3? An anesthesiologist assistant.
True, movies don’t owe anybody a living, but Workflow Editors (née Assistant Editors) and Media Managers certainly aren’t paid the same as a specialist who needs to know how to insert a catheter.
And when things get rough, we frequently ground ourselves with sayings like, “Well, no need to get emotional – it’s not life or death here.” But when those deadlines loom and MC just stops working, wowee wow, we’re sure made to feel that way.
So Avid, if you’re reading this, be on the right side of the miracle. Think of those users who canceled their family vacations due to MC crashes (🙋🏽♂️) or spent hours re-creating work after the Attic stopped working (🙋🏽♂️), and put all your R&D and dev power behind one version – one stable, fast, reliable version with a consistent experience – of Media Composer.
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Recently heard Callie Khouri describe Nashville, TN like this:
“Nashville is a drinking town with a music problem.” 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽