Final Cut Pro X is on the horizon

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Apple has announced the next version of Final Cut Pro, one of the leading film and video editing packages.  Final Cut has gained market share over the years from Avid, which remains the dominant editing platform for motion pictures.  Final Cut has a more rough and tumble ecosystem, but is…
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New Technology

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This is a test of the wordpress-facebook link.  Its a brave new world, and if all goes well we'll be sharing everything between the blog (at www.casualdog.org/how-to_blog) and Facebook (How-To: The Movie).  Amazing, eh? Please let me know if you have any ideas or issues.
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Richard Leacock, RIP

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Richard Leacock, one of the founders or inventors of direct cinema style of documentary film making (a close cousin of cinema vérité) and a prolific documentary filmmaker, has passed away.  A good obituary and discussion of his work is on the blog All These Wonderful Things by AJ Schnack.  Ricky Leacock's own web site doesn't…
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Log line, anybody?

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[caption id="attachment_506" align="alignleft" width="300"] Looks like a log to me.[/caption] How-to: advice to young doctors on blending science, healing, and art in 21st century health care. Please help by suggesting log lines.   What?  See the movie first?  I don't understand...
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Reflexivity

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Reflexivity in film making is a tricky thing.  It is very easy to fall into self-indulgent and narcissistic pits - why should our own struggles be interesting to anyone else?  The specter of the wealthy dilettante, fooling themselves that they are some sort of artist (and pandered to because they…
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New Title, Anyone?

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OK, enough is enough.  It is time to crystalize this film's direction - well, re-crystalize.  Hopefully we'll still put together a pair of films, cut from the same cloth - the Director's version (mine) and the subject's version (alan's). The director's cut will use reflexive techniques and Alan's biography to…
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Apple of my I

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Most visual artists use Apple computers if they use any, and this is particularly true of film editing.  Apple's Final Cut Pro software has carved out a hefty chunk of the film editing market, although Avid's Media Composer and related products are still the gorillas.  Apple is due to release…
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