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

You’re not likely to get a more different take on remembering Martin Luther King Jr. than this one from First Things editor Rev. Richard John Neuhaus.

Interesting news on POD outfit iUniverse from Publisher’s Weekly reporter Steve Zeitchik: Saying you were more than a subsidy publisher but not quite a traditional house always seemed to us like saying you were half pregnant. But iUniverse may soon prove that such unlikely feats are possible (the publishing, not the half-pregnancy). The Nebraska firm… Continue reading