Perhaps a New Year resolution to revive this blog? 😅

 Ok guys, this blog has been dormant for almost 5 years. I truly apologize. Priorities in my life and career changed and I had to focus in other areas. I realize that this blog did have some helpful features for readers, in particular editors, animators and post-production professionals. I particularly enjoy helping students figure out how to manage edit jobs or discover new tricks and tips. So I am considering reviving this blog. Hopefully I will not be to overwhelmed by work to keep it current. So much has changed since Final Cut Pro 7 was the go to NLE! 😃 I will share what I learn using Premiere and other software. Look forward to getting back in touch. Thanks!

Funny picture of what it used to look like at an old school master control

Colorpix Logo.

It was fun trying to replicate the old 80s digitrail effect :)

Funny Cartoon for Christmas!

Dizzy TV!

Check out the latest Dizzy TV pilot I just edited and directed.

Dizzy TV! *new pilot* from Dizzy TV on Vimeo.

DIZZY REEL early 1998-2002

MTV House Of Style

Susan Cianciolo constructs original anti-prom dresses.

I shot and edited this for MTV's House Of Style. Directed by Mara Marich.

Ep. 57: Susan Cianciolo's Anti Prom:

 

Saints (Video) Training.

This summer I taught a Final Cut Pro class at the Saints Football training facility in New Orleans.

Even though it was off season it was still fun to be in the 2010 World Champion New Orleans Saints training facility and to be able to visit the locker-room.

The class was for the Saints Football internal video department and the online and social marketing department.  Their needs range from providing video feeds and highlight reels to broadcasters, to training reels, marketing materials and online videos.

We had a very intense and focused class touching on in-depth principles of editing, media management, compression, graphics and animation.  

I just wanted to say thanks to the guys at the Saints Football training facility in New Orleans for such a warm welcome.  In particular I would like to thank Jason Trosclair for booking the class and making sure everything worked great.  I would also like to thank Erica Dudas and the folks at NOVAC for scheduling and facilitating this class.

..and of course Go Saints!!

Bronze Telly Award

 

I am very happy and proud to announce I have just won my second Telly Award for editing on Reebok, Old Orchard Beach.  This was a big project which involved logging 35 hours of footage shot in 4 American cities.  I had 3 assistant editors help with ingest, logging and selecting the footage.  Wrangling all the footage and all the moving parts was a big challenge which took advanced media management skills.  Another technical tour de force involved seamlessly matching into footage sourced in different formats.  I cut a 28 min. mockumentary for Reebok that included interviews of over 20 people.  After cutting the long form piece, the client requested a 'hotmix' or 3 min. trailer, which you can view here on Vimeo.

The video was produced by David Wales at Ministry Of Culture and was written and directed by David Wales and Mara Marich of Aquarium Creative Agency.

Final Cut Pro at Mississippi Public Broadcasting

Just returned from teaching a great Final Cut Pro class at Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson, Mississippi.  I got to meet experienced and talented TV producers, directors, editors and cameramen
who wanted to polish up on their understanding of editing with Final Cut Pro.  It's always a great pleasure to have a class filled with dedicated professionals who share an understanding of TV production and post production. 

I wanted to say thanks to everyone for being so hospitable and friendly and in particular to Scott Colwell, Director of Production at Mississippi Public Broadcasting.

Final Cut Pro 7 Advanced Editing at UT in Austin

Just taught a great FCP7 level 2 class at University of Texas last week with the Digital Media Academy. The students were very motivated and skilled and we were able to explore in depth editing concepts such as color correction, proper acquisition and ingest, and media management.

Thanks to Rolando, Gino and Valerie for a great class and special thanks to Scott Hall in Austin.

Sound Track Pro cert

Summer Classes

Just finished teaching a Final Cut Pro 200 class at Harvard University and a Sound Track Pro class at NOVAC in New Orleans. Here is a comment from one of my students:

Hey Beau,

I really learned a lot in your sound class. Thanks so much for your time and for answering all my crazy questions. I love the idea of nesting sequences within FCP and having a master sequence for the whole movie that updates when I make changes to the sequences within that master file. This can definitely work where each scene is a new sequence. I just had one question about that.

We have several scenes where the music or dialogue from one scene bleeds into the next. This has been a great way to connect the scenes, and to keep people engaged from one scene to the next. Can you do this with the sequences? Can audio bleed from one sequence to the next like that?

Thanks again for all your help.

Cheers,

Helen Krieger
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1627892/
http://www.facebook.com/floodstreets.movie
www.floodstreetsmovie.com

Helen,

thanks for the nice comments! 

Yes, you can have a music bed transition from one sequence to another.  Just set your music on separate tracks underneath your sequences.  You can then nest all the clips in a sequence excluding the music bed (select all clips except the music clips, Sequence >Nest Items).  That way you can have several sequences on top of a single music bed. 

At some point I would still look for a break point in your movie.  It can be when there is a fade to black, or the beginning of some other scene.  There is usually always a break point you can use as your sequence end.

Finally, I would nest everything into one large 'Output' sequence, which will give you more control over the whole movie at once, say of for example if you want to put a letterbox on it or something.