I need your help voting for Corporate Assassin in 2 categories for a web series competition. You can vote once in each category.
Look for this poster…
1) Comedy Category
2) Long Form Category
Thanks and please help spread the word. This is a huge opportunity. If selected, it will have a chance to be developed into a [...]

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Final Cut Pro Quick Tip: Select Track Tool from Andy Coon on Vimeo.
This is a great tool. You can select 1 or all tracks in front or behind the area you need to edit and move the tracks without manually selecting all the tracks. I explain it a lot easier in the video.

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Jeremy Wallace, a reader of this blog and I can say a friend of mine is applying for the “Best Job in the World.”
The Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef is a newly created position. There are a few minor tasks that need to be taken care of, but the most [...]

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I need HD footage of a locked down shot of a remote beautiful beach. Anyone have any footage they would like to donate to me for an episode of The Corporate Assassin, I’d greatly appreciate it. I only need roughly 5-10 seconds of footage. Asking on here is my first option. [...]

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Why? Can anyone give me a reason why capturing HDV always crashes the log and capture and the timecode breaks so easily. The only setting that I can use without any worries is the Apple Intermediate Codec. The problem with that codec is the same as the HDV, it breaks the video [...]

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I have a Canon HV20 and I want to put my Shockmount on it. The only thing the Shockmount base is too big and can’t fit on the camera’s adapter shoe. Does anyone know if there is a shockmount that will fit the Canon HV20.
Here is the HV20 Advanced Accessory Shoe

The butt of [...]

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I don’t know why these hard drives are formatted like this but it is killing me. My brother ordered a 1TB Western Digital My Book external hard drive for The DotMatrix Project, and it came formatted as a MS-DOS (FAT) or better yet a FAT32. FAT32 is formatted so Mac and PC can [...]

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Bevan, a recently graduated independent filmmaker in South Africa asks… “Apart from frantically finding out where i fit in in this world, I am trying to import flv files into final cut pro or find a way to convert them into something that final cut pro is happy with.”
You cannot import FLV files into Final [...]

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Wow what a couple of weeks it has been. First the trip out to Phoenix was odd. Then getting sick in Phoenix was worse. Here’s what happened.
I was called out to Phoenix to help a documentary fix their media manager nightmare. After receiving the call I flew out the next day [...]

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This is the second email I’ve gotten from my ilk. I wish I could help out with my experience, but I do not own a GL-2 so I can not help out. So I’ll ask my readers to bail me out once again and help Jeff out with his question.
I hate to bug [...]

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