Editors' Lounge

Want to really understand how dynamic range works and is best handled from camera to viewing environment? This is a very good deep dive into explaining it that everyone working with images should watch.

Watch out for the next Editors' lounge event in August. It will be in a cool new format you've probably never seen.

For 17 years Editors' Lounge events have always been on Friday nights as that was the easiest time for working editors to attend. Since we are in a new normal of online meetings instead, I was wondering what would be the best time to hold the events?

Standardization is helpful.

Boris Fx just posted a free, standalone version of Particle Illusion. For those of you who are not familiar with this software, it's one of the easiest most responsive particle generators for making things like rain, pixie dust, smoke or just about anything you can imagine. Plus, this latest version will generate ProRes files with straight or premultiplied alphas. To get it, navigate to borisfx.com and look for the download link. Also, they've created a bunch of tutorial movies at https://borisfx.com/videos/ Enjoy.

"In the past, quality was everything. Those days are over. Today, content is more important than presentation." It sure feels that way. :-(

While celebrating our 18th anniversary at Alpha Dogs in Burbank, we are also doing some MAJOR downsizing. As a result, we have a lot of various gear we need to find new homes for. If you are looking for an an Avid system with dongle, consoles, monitors, VTRs, etc. Please private message me.

Some good news!

Tired of your boring backdrops for zoom calls? The BBC is giving away high resolution stills of their empty sets for you to use instead.

And 25% off Protools! So many deals these days.

Backblaze releases a quarterly report on hard drive failures in their massive server farm. They just released their 1st quarter 2020 stats. HGST looking like the winner for safety.

This is cool. BorisFX is offering a free copy of their Title Studio plugin. BorisFX are offering Title Studio, a next-generation 3D titling and animation plug-in for video editors and motion designers. Here’s how to get it:... Visit the Boris FX link below. Add a New License of Continuum Title Studio to your cart. On check out, enter Discount Code: celebrate Finish the checkout process and you will be emailed instructions to download, install and activate your license.

If you are already an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber, here is how to get two free months right now.

Application to the 2020 ACE (American Cinema Editors) Internship Program is now open through June 30th, 2020.