Tech Corner – If a Tree Falls in the Forest… Avid Media Composer version 2018.12.15 is the last version of the software before it went through a major interface overhaul. A recent select survey of ACE editors about the new...
A Complete Solution – BBC 2021 Boris FX has released Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) 2021, a package of VFX plugins for Avid, Adobe, Apple, Blackmagic Design and other software NLE and VFX platforms. As in the past, Boris FX has added a...
Where the World is Going Harry B. Miller, III – Tech Corner Microsoft creates operating systems that are designed towork on a huge variety of computers, new and old. Most of the hardware it runs on is not made by Microsoft, but by the likes of...
Tech Corner Don’t Upgrade – Harry B. Miller III, ACE Microsoft creates operating systems that are designed towork on a huge variety of computers, new and old. Most of the hardware it runs on is not made by Microsoft, but by the likes of...
Tech Corner – Research Under Lockdown The enforced idleness of the last few months has resulted in several positives. I walk more. I talk to my family more. And I’ve lots of research to share with you, dear reader. In late February, 2020, I was...
My first experience with a major composer was when Jerry Goldsmith came to our editing room on the Sony lot to spot the movie Gladiator (no, not that one; the boxing movie). We watched the movie on the KEM, occasionally discussing different ideas,...
Tech Corner – Last Equipment Survey CE 2012 Qtr 2 The battle is over. There are clear winners. The answers to the questions haven’t changed. Around 80% of the ACE respondents edit on Avid, on a Mac, cutting with HD media, on network...
12 Steps to Tech Sanity Harry B. Miller III, ACE My name is Harry M – and I have an addiction. I am a software-update-aholic. Let me explain. In the early days of personal computers Wordstar was the dominant word processing program starting from...
Tech Corner – Death of a Software Death of a Software (with apologies to Arthur Miller) Harry B. Miller III, ACE One thing stupider than releasing a piece of professional editing software that lacks essential professional...
