According to John Nadel of the Associated Press: Torre gave the Angels credit, but wouldn’t say they were a better team than the Yankees. “I’m too proud to say that,” he said. “We were beaten by a team that played a whole lot better than we did this week.” Full story here. Why? The Yankees… Continue reading

My editor tells me that Digital Movies with QuickTime Pro will be in book stores in about 3 weeks. You can check it out or order it from Amazon here.

Charlie White complains that certain small production houses are using the new DV tools to edit the smutty parts out of movies for concerned parents. I think he’s right to complain, and the Director’s Guild does have a beef. Not because Art is necessarily being harmed by cutting nude scenes or violence from their oh-so-deep… Continue reading

Well, it’s official: Everyman is up for two awards at the 2002 B-Movie Film Festival in New York—Best Editing and Special Achievement. The festival awards are on October 5-6….

It’s Celebrity Smack Down time for the two leaders in digital video editing. Check out Discovery Channel producer Peter May’s detailed comparison of Apple’s Final Cut Pro (which I’m currently using to master Richard the Second) and Avid’s new Avid Xpress DV. (I use AvidXpress with Digital-S for educational projects at work). Bottom line: Final… Continue reading