Friday, December 18, 2009 at 11:21AM I just learned the hard way that video shot on the Canon 5D works in the 601 colorspace, not RGB. Of course, I could have learned the easy way by reading this post at CineForm Insider.
Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some batch importing to do.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 10:18PM Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 10:54PM 
Directly from the Growl website: "Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications." A windows version is also available from another development team. It's highly customizable, so you can have the notification display as a popup on your screen, or as an alert sent to your phone.
The above image is a mockup I made to illustrate an idea: You could pop in a tape to capture, and not have to worry about checking it until you get a notifcation that the capturing has stopped. Other candidates for notifications: renders completed, exports finished, or end of sequence reached.
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 7:31PM Avid released an update to Media Composer 4 today which makes Media Composer compatible with Mac OS 10.6, Snow Leopard.
While this seems like a minor update to increase compatibilty, I recommend checking out Macbreak's series of videos on "Automation in Snow Leopard" (I'm linking to the first in the series, see check the bottom of this post for the rest). The Avid update was released today so I doubt anyone's had an time to play with it, but this creates some interesting possiblities.
You can, for instance, set up a folder, and have everything dropped into that folder convert to a Quicktime for the web. Export a fast Same as Source Quicktime out of the Avid into this folder, and free up Media Composer to get back to work while Mac OS does the work of transcoding.
Or vice-versa. Maybe a producer sends you a Quicktime they want their editor to work with. Have a folder set up that converts everything in it to full-frame D1 and encodes it with the Avid codec, so you get a properly-resized Fast Import.
Alright, I've got to end this here, I'm getting all worked up just thinking about it.
