Avid has made little or no impression in the US newspaper video market but here in the UK it’s express software is fast becoming a standard. I cut on both Avid and  Final Cut Pro and have done for a while and would have to say that love them both as I do the transition [...]

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Not more link bait. Although try putting iphone or Mac Air in to a post and watch Akismet go mental.
No, this was a post by Dennis Dunleavy which points to a photo essay shot entirely on an iphone by Mother Jones magazine Washington Bureau Chief, David Corn. And boy doesn’t it show just how ropey [...]

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OK, that’s shameless link bait. But I’m generally disappointed with what appeared at Macworld.
Yes, the new laptop is nice. Yes, I’m sure it’s a breakthrough in engineering. But I’m also sure it will probably find that it gets most of its business as an option for those who where also considering a PC laptop as [...]

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Over the last few posts I’ve focused two of the three s’s that I think are areas to focus on for web/newspaper video- script and  sequences.  The last in the series was going to be sound.
In that way the web works I’ve come across a series of posts on the Apple website that  says pretty [...]

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Doug Fisher has been busy working his way round the generally hated new imovie and come up with some gems of information.
He is collecting them in a…
Igonore the above. In the excitement of finding the tips I didn’t put two and two together and note that it was actually Aaron Miller who has started a [...]

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Amongst the things going on I have found time to do a bit of playing around with the new imovie 08. Having seen the ad’s and a couple of the demo movies on the apple site I’d expressed a level of geeky impressed’ness so you can imagine I was keen to try it [...]

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Update: Read my  review of imovie08 to see if it lived up to my expectations…
The new version of imovie is out and it looks great. In particular the way you can interact with thumbnails by ’skimming’ them.

Watch the video on the Apple web site and prepare to go ‘oooooooh’

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