Guillotine News and Updates

The Descendants, editor Kevin Tent

Gordon — Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:48:50 EDT

Kevin Tent, editor of The Descendants discusses his work.

Gustavo Giani editando Besouro

Pablo — Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:46:20 EDT

(In Spanish) The editor Gustavo Giani brasileo speaks a little Beetle assembly, a film about a capoeira fighter which won the Best Editing nominacin at Grande do Cinema Brasileiro Prmio in 2009.

3D and Color Grading for Underworld Awakening

Gordon — Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:45:31 EDT

(Fremont, California--February 3, 2012) Blackmagic Design today announced that Company 3 used DaVinci Resolve with Resolve Control Surface for color grading the 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D versions of Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment's, in association with Sketch Films, Underworld: Awakening.

Noise reduction available for SCRATCH 6.1

Gordon — Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:44:16 EDT

Neat Video is a video filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain in video footage produced by digital video cameras,camcorders, TV-tuners, digitizers of film or analog video.

Technicolor Acquires the Activities of Duboi

Gordon — Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:42:43 EDT

(Paris, France--February 3, 2012) Following the Jan. 20, 2012 ruling by the Tribunal de Commerce in Nanterre, France, Technicolor (Euronext Paris: TCH) today announced its acquisition of the activities and skills in visual post-production, color and colorization of the French company Duboi.

Avid Studio for iPad. This shit just got real!

Gordon — Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:41:25 EDT

Editing on an iPad? Yeah, right. iMovie? Pffft. Whatever. Let me know when Avid makes an iPad app! Because that’s when I'll start take mobile editing seriously.

Grass Valley Live Production Technologies Supports

Gordon — Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:34:14 EDT

(San Francisco, California--February 3, 2012) Deployed by the country's largest and most experienced mobile production companies, a wide variety of live production equipment from Grass Valley will once again be used for this year's highly anticipated Super Bowl XLVI high-definition telecast—as well as for a number of related programs shot during the week leading up to the big game.

Adobe unveils Prelude!

Gordon — Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:32:57 EDT

Philip Hodgetts reports on his blog that at the San Francisco Supermeet last week, Adobe's Al Mooney revealed a sneak peek at a new application for the Creative Suite called Prelude.

Technicolor Buys French Post Facility Duboi

Gordon — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:20:22 EDT

Expanding its digital filmmaking operations in Europe, Technicolor has purchased Paris digital post house Duboi. Today's news followed an announcement last month in which Technicolor said it had taken over the post and digital-conversion operations of operations of French audio facilities Auditoriums de Joinville and Societe Industrielle de Sonorisation as well as digital conversion and DCP mastering house ScanLab. Like those companies, Duboi was owned by Paris-based Quinta Industries...

Editing Avid on an iPad – Imagine the Possibilit

Gordon — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:18:18 EDT

Apple has been known for being very 'i' centric with it's devices – often only allowing Mac-able applications to run on many of the products Apple sells. So we were all taken aback with the big news coming from Avid's corner that Avid Studio editing software will now run on Apple's iPad.

3D and Color Grading for 'Underworld Awakenin

Gordon — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:16:38 EDT

Blackmagic Design has announced that Company 3 used DaVinci Resolve with Resolve Control Surface for color grading the 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D versions of Underworld: Awakening. The film, directed by Marlind and Stein and shot by Scott Kevan, is the latest in the hugely popular and visually stunning vampire themed Underworld series.

AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS INTERNATIONAL?

Gordon — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:55:17 EDT

On my last trip to the Netherlands this past April, a group of Dutch feature film editors invited me to dinner where they asked me to become the first honorary member of their newly formed organization, NCE. Loosely translated, NCE stands for the Netherlands Organization of Cinema-Editors (www.cinemaeditors.nl).

Josh Diamond and Blue Valentine

Gordon — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:35:17 EDT

Editor Josh Diamond discusses the use of multiple timelines as seen in Blue Valentine. For more information on Editfest NY please go to editfestny.com. This video was produced by Manhattan Edit Workshop and edited by John Schlirf.

A Fool's View of Apple, Avid, and Adobe

Gordon — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:49:56 EDT

Quick post on a write up over on The Motley Fool, a multimedia financial-services company. They've posted a 3 part series on the state of our three "favorite" non-linear editors (NLEs), but this one is more from a business perspective.

Revisiting the RED workflow, Smoke 2012 style

Scott — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:46:35 EDT

My love affair with RED Digital Cinema began in 2007, when my brief stint as demo artist in the NAB RED booth turned into a regular gig at events and trade shows. When I joined Autodesk as Product Designer to help bring Smoke to the Mac, I was quickly assigned to construct our first RED workflow. Back then, building a RED workflow meant exploring unchartered territory, but since then things changed rather quickly in the last couple years.

Editing the Farrelly's The Three Stooges

Gordon — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:46:20 EDT

In Atlanta to work on 'The Three Stooges,' the editor of 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Kingpin' reflects on comedy, timing, and editing as a team sport.

Some Friday inspiration all edited in FCPX

Gordon — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:44:19 EDT

Some Friday inspiration for us all. Shot on a RED camera and edited in Final Cut Pro X, 'Digitals' is a unique short musical from Chris Crutchfield.

Avid Media Composer goes 64-bit

Gordon — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:43:05 EDT

Avid made the jump to 64-bit in November with its mainstream Media Composer 6, Symphony 6 and NewsCutter 10 software. This highly anticipated new release includes ten cornerstone features: 64-bit code, Open IO, ProRes integration (Mac only), Avid Marketplace, AMA support for AVCHD, a new DNxHD444 codec, expanded stereo 3D tools, 5.1/7.1 surround mixing, Avid Artist Color control surface support and a modernized user interface.

Avid goes mobile

Gordon — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:41:42 EDT

Avid, maker of high-end digital video and audio production tools, is bringing its "pro-sumer" video editing software to the iPad. The app is available starting Thursday as part of the Avid Studio suite. The app will run on iPad only, though Avid says it's exploring other mobile operating systems.

How We Watch Films

Gordon — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:40:14 EDT

Plenty of words are written about what people think of movies but less attention is devoted to how we actually see them.