New avid tutorial, advanced timeline editing

Today I made another tutorial, this time I am showing you how to move clips around in your timeline, sometimes I need to move a group of clips from te middle of my timeline to the end, and this tutorial show you how to do that.
Here is the direct link: http://mouritzen.biz/avid/eng/advanced-timeline.htm

How to make D-day in 4 days

This is one of those "must see" clip on YouTube, this is how to make an D-day movie, it is a group of guys who used 4 days to make this little 4 minute clip of what the can, and it is impreeing, and it is also great for showing how movies are made, the have 4 guys running on a beach, and with editing and using a lot of effects the make it look like there is a lot more, You should use teh 4 minutes and see it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9cpOMYv0

Avid rumors are that soon they will be launching new products

On the Avid forum I cam across a post that was telling amoung other tihngs, that two months before NAB they will launch some new products, and improve there customer support.
You can read the post here:
http://www.avid.com/exchange/forums/permalink/301933/301933/ShowThread.aspx

How to edit AVCHD in AVID

I have been recording alot with my panasonic HDC-SD1 camera, but found out that it is not easy to get it into an editing program to edit it.
So I spend some time on the net (I do that often) and found a nice free software from panasonic that makes it possible to get my AVCHD format into Avid, and I wrote a little tutorial on how to do that it can be found here:
http://mouritzen.biz/oldavid/avid/eng/avchdtop2.htm

New version of Mediacomposer

The Avid released a update of Mediacomposer to version 2.8. I'm looking forward to test it, over the next couple of days. I will return with more when I have tested it, if it is more stabel.
I'm still looking forward to the update for MAC so it can be running on Leopard.
Here is the link to the download page for Mediacomposer:
http://www.avid.com/register/mcsoft_cpr_form.asp

Per

3 new Avid tutorials

Today I have written 3 new tutorials for Avid

1. How to add black shadows to your video, this is often used when you want something to be more in focus, here is and example:

and here is the direct link to the tutorial: http://www.mouritzen.biz/avid/eng/vignette.htm

2. is a tutorial that helps you is you loose your media files, it could be if your harddrive fails, then it is nice to know how to get your media back from tape and into our project.

Here is te direct link to that tutorial: http://www.mouritzen.biz/avid/eng/batch-capture.htm

3. the last tutorial is a advanced undo function wich, gives you teh possibility to undo your work more that teh 30 times Avid lets you do...there is a way to use te attic folder and go for example 3 hours back. here is te link: http://www.mouritzen.biz/avid/eng/attic_folder.htm

Hope it can be usefull for someone.

Per

Monopod from manfrotto

I have done some shopping, and one of the things I got was this very nice big monopod from manfrotto, the model is 561b and is can get around 2 meters high and is very solid, the hight is very goo because when filming inside af crowd I can get the kamera over the heads of people.
I use it with my Panasonic DVX-100 and a full size kamera Sony DSR-250, it works fine with both kameras.
As a new thing the monpod has 3 small legs to stand on, andit works very well, to stabilize the monpod, or to mak it lezz unstable :-)

Here is a link to manfrottos page about the tripod: http://www.manfrotto.com/Jahia/site/manfrotto/cache/off/pid/13785?livid=107117&idx=120

Per

Manfrotto modosteady 585

So the last couple ofdays I have been playing around with the funny little modosteady from manfrotto, it gives a better balance when you walk around with a small videocamera, although it takes a bit of time to adjust to the camera, and if you want to get it of the modosteady, it is not "click and run", you need to turn a small knop before you can take the camera off.

It can also be working as a kind of shoulder support, but this I did not find very usefull, when I used it for that it was going up and down while I was breathing, but that may not be a problem for others.

Then as a third otion it can be a small tripod for the table, this is very handy and works very well.

So when I look at the price (around 100 Usd) it is very helpfull and worth the money.

You can see it here:http://modo.manfrotto.com/

Manfrotto - Fig Rig

Finally it came, the Fir Rig from Manfrottoe, the mail man came with it today, and now it is time to play.
If you don't know what it is, it is a "thing" that looks like the stearing wheel from a car, and inside it you can mount your kamera.
It should be very good to stabilize camera movements when walking around, I also bought two remote controls, one for controlling te zoom and start/stop rec. and one remote for controlling focus.
I'm looking forward to put my Panasonic DVX-100 on and try it.

You canread more aabout it here: http://services.manfrotto.com/figrig/

Per

The first input

Finally, I got my Blog, it has taken some time the decide if It should get one, but now it is done, and I hope that I will get the time to write frequently in it.

Per Mouritzen
www.mouritzen.biz