http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/index.html All information about the site, news and updates can be found here. en-us Copyright 2008, All Rights Reserved Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:03:00 EDT gburkell@artoftheguillotine.com (Gordon Burkell) gburkell@artoftheguillotine.com (Gordon Burkell) http://artoftheguillotine.com/index.html gburkell@.com (Gordon Burkell) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:57:00 EDT In this episode, we’ll deep-dive into one of the most powerful and most-used effects in Avid: The Timewarp. We’ll cover the basics in this episode and the next. This week: Render types, keyframe interpolation and manipulating the Speed Graph. id_723 http://artoftheguillotine.com/podcastthecuttingroom.html http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/podcastfiles/eps_027_interview_osteen_pt_2.mp3 Here's part 2 of my interview with Bobbie O'Steen. Bobbie is an Emmy nominated editor and author of The Invisible Cut and Cut to the Chase. In this part we begin to discuss her second book, The invisible Cut To see her next interview/event check out her website at www.bobbieosteen.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:46:00 EDT id_722 http://artoftheguillotine.com/index.html gburkell@.com (Gordon Burkell) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:19:00 EDT This blog is all about final cut pro. I work in it day in and day out, and I thought I would use this space to share my tips and frustrations with the world. I might occasionally venture out into After Effects or Nuke, but FCP is my bread and butter! id_721 http://artoftheguillotine.com/nina/index.html gburkell@.com (Gordon Burkell) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:44:00 EDT I grew up in San Francisco, and I still consider it my true home. Whenever I see a movie that features the city I feel my heart well up and a wave of longing hits me. Thankfully, most of my family is still there and I can go visit them when I have some extra funds. Now I live in Vancouver, which is basically the San Francisco of Canada, and it is very similar— but when I see that Golden Gate I know I’m not home unless I’m there. id_720 http://artoftheguillotine.com/index.html gburkell@artoftheguillotine.com (Gordon Burkell) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:38:00 EDT Recently, I had the chance to moderate a live chat with two members of the editorial department for Avatar. Not only is it the biggest box office hit of all time, it's also nominated in nine different categories in the Academy Awards. Joining us for the web chat were co-editors Steve Rivkin, and first assistant editor Jason Gaudio. Steve and Jason told us all about their journey through the world of Avatar and then took questions from our live audience. In case you missed it, here's an encore of our talk with Steve and Jason. id_719 http://artoftheguillotine.com/index.html gburkell@artoftheguillotine.com (Gordon Burkell) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:04:00 EDT My Avid Media Composer software has for years come with the visual effects plug-ins from Boris FX, the suite called Boris Continuum Complete (BCC). Boris is a software plug-in for Media Composer (and other platforms such as After Effects). It enables an editor to add effects such as colors, glows, distortions, lights, textures, keys, and mattes to any shot. Every once in a while I’d dabble with different effects, a blur, a glow, etc. It all seemed fun enough, but often too complicated to completely understand. id_718 http://artoftheguillotine.com/index.html gburkell@artoftheguillotine.com (Gordon Burkell) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:03:00 EDT Update your RSS Readers and favorites bin. The Ace Tech Web Discussion Blog has moved. id_717 http://artoftheguillotine.com/index.html gburkell@artoftheguillotine.com (Gordon Burkell) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:28:00 EDT MPEG is reprinting Chris Innis' article on editing The Hurt Locker: After reading the warnings issued to travelers, I rushed out to get the suggested immunizations for typhoid and hepatitis. The US State Department also had a serious warning for Americans traveling to Jordan, a Middle Eastern country next door to Iraq. One well-known Hollywood movie producer, Moustapha Akkad (of the Halloween movies) had been tragically killed two years prior when a terrorist bomb exploded at a wedding reception at a five-star hotel in Amman. id_716 http://artoftheguillotine.com/index.html gburkell@artoftheguillotine.com (Gordon Burkell) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:27:00 EDT MPEG Sends congrats to the Oscar Award winning editing team of Bob Murawski and Chris Innis. id_715 http://artoftheguillotine.com/index.html gburkell@artoftheguillotine.com (Gordon Burkell) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:26:00 EDT Final Cut Pro, like most software developed originally for OS 9, is build on a type of code called (for short) Carbon. The Carbon APIs (Application Programming Interface – the building blocks of code) allowed Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Media Composer and thousands of other applications to make the transition for OS 9 to OS X “reasonably painlessly”. (Meaning, hard but not impossible). Carbon code runs just fine on OS X and is no less efficient in and of itself than the more modern Cocoa code. id_714 http://artoftheguillotine.com/index.html gburkell@artoftheguillotine.com (Gordon Burkell) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:18:00 EDT Overlap cuts (split edits) are fundamental for any editor. Most people create them in a two-step process, making a straight cut first and then overlapping it using Trim Mode. But there’s a hidden, one-step way to do it. id_713 http://artoftheguillotine.com/index.html gburkell@artoftheguillotine.com (Gordon Burkell) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:11:00 EDT I was extremely pleased that The Hurt Locker won for both picture editing and sound editing and sound mixing too. This was a picture and sound editor’s movie if there ever was one and it previously won the A.C.E. Eddie award for best feature editing. Picture editing drove the rhythm of this story about an American bomb diffusion squad in Iraq and in a way, diffusion was the movie’s metaphor - trying to mitigate the harm the war’s causing. id_712