Well, it's Friday again, so I figured I would stick with Twitter's "Follow Friday" theme. Last week I shared a list of all the video production blogs that I keep an eye on and this week I figured you might appreciate a list of the video production podcasts that I listen to.
The Terence and Philip Show
This podcast features Terence Curren, owner of Alpha Dogs post production facility, and Philip Hodgetts. I'm a big Philip Hodgetts fan, so of course I listen to this podcast. Actually, I seem to talk about Philip on a weekly basis on this blog, so I bet I'm starting to creep him out a bit! This podcast is usually a pretty informal discussion about the latest trends in the video production world. They start with a topic and usually seem to drift off on a tangent, but always keep it relevant and interesting. It's great to hear the thoughts of two industry professionals. Terence and Philip are pretty entertaining guys, so this podcast is defineltly worth checking out.
Digital Production Buzz
This podcast is hosted by Larry Jordan and Michael Horton. Larry is a certified trainer, hosts training webinars, writes a great blog, publishes a FCP newsletter, and is all over the video production world. Michael runs the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group. This podcast is much more structured than The Terence and Philip Show. Larry and Michael usually have a handful of guest interviews on their podcast, and keep to a tighter schedule than other podcasts. It sounds more like a radio talk show, rather than an informal discussion show. Listening to this podcast really keeps me updated on what trends are popular in the video production industry.
The DV Show
This podcast is hosted by video production professional Brian Alves. To me, this podcast appeals to a slightly lower level production pro than The Terence and Philip Show or Digital Production Buzz. Some of the topics discussed on The DV Show are video production basics, and some of the people calling in with questions seem to be beginners. That being said, Brian also does a good job of including topics and questions geared toward those people that have had more experience in the video production industry. This podcast is a nice mix of discussion about current trends in the industry, gear talk, and general video production tips and tricks. Brian has a very professional sounding production, which adds to this podcast being a great listen.
Creative Cow Podcasts
I'm not a huge fan of video production podcasts that are strictly tutorials, but Creative Cow does a great job with their podcasts. I especially enjoy their podcast tutorials from Andrew Devis and Richard Harrington. These tutorial podcasts are well produced, and I always learn something from the production pros that host them.
Speaking of Creative Cow, I saw a forum post stating that they're planning on starting up the Creative Cow weekly podcast again and they're looking for someone to host it. Looking at the brief description, the format will be a weekly podcast, 15 minutes in length, discussing the week's news and will feature a short interview. I'm guessing the interview will usually be a representative from one of the many companies that advertise on Creative Cow. I look forward to subscribing to the weekly podcast when they get it up and running.
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NAB 2011: SuperMeet and the Final Cut Pro X announcement
I was one of the lucky people to attend the 2011 Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet event on the Tuesday of the NAB Show. We were expecting to hear Kevin Smith and a handful of other video production professionals speak, but a week before the event, it was announced that a "special guest" had bumped all the speakers with a "special announcement." It was obvious that it would be Apple making an announcement about the new Final Cut Pro X. The event sold out, they had to add more seats, and all of a sudden this was the hottest ticket to have at NAB.
As we were entering the Bally's Event Center, there were even people in the hallway asking if anyone had extra tickets to sell. You would think it was a Justin Beiber concert. After getting our lanyards and badges, we milled around the SuperMeet exhibit floor for about an hour. Quite a few vendors had booths set up and it was easier to speak to them here rather on the noisy, crowded NAB exhibit floor. We bought $10 of extra raffle tickets, hopped on line (it was more a large mob of people) and waited for the theater to open.
Right around 7pm the lights dimmed, the Apple logo appeared on the projection screen, and all of us video nerds cheered.
Apple's Peter Steinauer and Randy Ubillos walked us through a Keynote presentation listing all the new features, and a decent demo of the software. It was all just a preview the left many unanswered questions, but it really looks like an exciting piece of software. For those that are calling it iMovie Pro, I disagree. Wait until you use it, rather than judge it on appearance alone. I won't list all of the new features, since others like Gary Adcock have already done a good job of reporting that news. Some of the obvious improvements are the new 64-bit architecture, improved AVCHD and DSLR footage support, improved media organization, and time saving color correction and audio cleanup features. The new interface looks very nice, and will take a little time to get used to. Video and audio tracks are handled differently in this new version. I'm sure after getting acclimated, these improvements will really speed up the editing process.
Many subjects were not addressed in the Keynote presentation or the demo: what changes are being made to other Final Cut Studio programs, how will the new track system affect exports to other programs, will old FCP plug-ins still work, etc. The Apple portion of the event wrapped with the announcement of a June delivery date, and $299 price tag. Makes Adobe's $400 upgrade price for Production Premium CS5.5 seem a bit excessive, considering it's not even a "full" upgrade. I love CS5, but I'll save my money for FCP X.
After Apple's presentation and demo, FCP User Group LA and Boston leaders Michael Horton and Daniel Bérubé introduced many of the leaders of the FCP User Groups in the US and around the world. Many more chapters than I knew about. It's always inspiring to be around so many enthusiastic media professionals, especially from all over the globe.
The evening ended with SuperMeet's world famous raffle, but unfortunately my coworker and I left empty handed. Michael, Daniel, Abba Shapiro and Jeff Greenberg hosted and thousands of dollars in prizes were handed out. We were really hoping for the hour sit down with PPW instructors Abba Shapiro and Jeff Greenberg, but no luck. One lucky woman left that night with a $30,000 DiVinci Resolve control surface.
All that being said, the evening was a blast. I'm looking forward to the Boston SuperMeet in October and I can't wait to get my hands on the new Final Cut Pro X.
As we were entering the Bally's Event Center, there were even people in the hallway asking if anyone had extra tickets to sell. You would think it was a Justin Beiber concert. After getting our lanyards and badges, we milled around the SuperMeet exhibit floor for about an hour. Quite a few vendors had booths set up and it was easier to speak to them here rather on the noisy, crowded NAB exhibit floor. We bought $10 of extra raffle tickets, hopped on line (it was more a large mob of people) and waited for the theater to open.
Right around 7pm the lights dimmed, the Apple logo appeared on the projection screen, and all of us video nerds cheered.
Apple's Peter Steinauer and Randy Ubillos walked us through a Keynote presentation listing all the new features, and a decent demo of the software. It was all just a preview the left many unanswered questions, but it really looks like an exciting piece of software. For those that are calling it iMovie Pro, I disagree. Wait until you use it, rather than judge it on appearance alone. I won't list all of the new features, since others like Gary Adcock have already done a good job of reporting that news. Some of the obvious improvements are the new 64-bit architecture, improved AVCHD and DSLR footage support, improved media organization, and time saving color correction and audio cleanup features. The new interface looks very nice, and will take a little time to get used to. Video and audio tracks are handled differently in this new version. I'm sure after getting acclimated, these improvements will really speed up the editing process.
Many subjects were not addressed in the Keynote presentation or the demo: what changes are being made to other Final Cut Studio programs, how will the new track system affect exports to other programs, will old FCP plug-ins still work, etc. The Apple portion of the event wrapped with the announcement of a June delivery date, and $299 price tag. Makes Adobe's $400 upgrade price for Production Premium CS5.5 seem a bit excessive, considering it's not even a "full" upgrade. I love CS5, but I'll save my money for FCP X.
After Apple's presentation and demo, FCP User Group LA and Boston leaders Michael Horton and Daniel Bérubé introduced many of the leaders of the FCP User Groups in the US and around the world. Many more chapters than I knew about. It's always inspiring to be around so many enthusiastic media professionals, especially from all over the globe.
The evening ended with SuperMeet's world famous raffle, but unfortunately my coworker and I left empty handed. Michael, Daniel, Abba Shapiro and Jeff Greenberg hosted and thousands of dollars in prizes were handed out. We were really hoping for the hour sit down with PPW instructors Abba Shapiro and Jeff Greenberg, but no luck. One lucky woman left that night with a $30,000 DiVinci Resolve control surface.
All that being said, the evening was a blast. I'm looking forward to the Boston SuperMeet in October and I can't wait to get my hands on the new Final Cut Pro X.
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