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Archive for the ‘Editing’ Category
Cruinniú na nÓg: Green Light Limerick
Posted: June 19, 2018 in Cameras, Documentary, Editing, Education, Film, Filming, live Event, media, Music Video, Technology, TelevisionTags: Cruinniú na nÓg, Film Making, limerick
Avid Explains Licensing
Posted: June 12, 2018 in Editing, TechnologyTags: avid, Avid Media Composer, Licensing
Things to know about the new Avid Media Composer licenses…
Posted: 10 Jun 2018 03:21 PM PDT
NAB 2018 saw Avid release a new licensing scheme. There’s a new license in town and the good news is, it’s cheaper! But what’s the catch? Here’s a quick guide…
Image from Avid Technology site.
Well, actually there’s not really too much of a catch unless you intend to use shared storage… let me tell you more.
Licenses
Licensing edit suites should be easy, but it’s usually not. While it might not be your responsibility, it’s a good idea as an Avid Assistant, to be aware of what license type you have on your workstation. Make sure it won’t run out mid-project or, if it is a monthly subscription license, does your workstation have Internet access to reactive a monthly subscription? Let’s get a better idea of how Avid licensing works.
Electronic licensing for Media Composer is done through the Application Manager. You purchase your license through the Avid website as either a perpetual or subscription license. Once finalised, your licencing information is placed into your Avid Account and from this information, your workstations can be activated. But what is the difference between these two license types?
Perpetual Licenses
This is simply a software activated license that is purchased for a single price and last for 12 months. The big advantage of this license is that it NEVER expires. If you do not renew your license at the end of the 12 months then your Media Composer is limited to the last release closest to your licences end date. If you renew your licence you will be able to access upgrade for the next 12 months and so on.
Optional extras with Media Composer are
• Media Composer | Symphony Option which can include includes Boris Continuum Complete Lite
• Media Composer | NewsCutter Option
• Media Composer | Production Pack – includes
• NewBlue Titler Pro 2
• Sorenson Squeeze
• iZotope Insight
Subscription License
This allows you to rent Media Composer on a month to month basis. Rather than stumping up for 12 months up front, this means you can reduce your costs by paying month by month. It also has the added benefit of giving you access to options you would have to purchase if you have a perpetual license. So that’s:
• Media Composer® | Software
• Media Composer | Symphony® Option
• NewBlue Titler Pro 2.5
• Sorenson Squeeze Lite
• Boris Continuum Complete Lite
• iZotope Insight (30-day trial)
• Avid Support (including all software updates/upgrades)
The monthly subscription also means that when you don’t need Media Composer you don’t pay for it.
Media Composer Types
Media Composer | First
For people just starting out in editing, Media Composer | First delivers a complete, yet streamlined creative toolset built on Avid’s renowned editing model – for free – with all the features and functionality that can be published to popular social media channels.
NAB 2018 saw the release of Media Composer 2018.4 and while the license types remain the same this version brought with it 2 separate ‘models’ of Media Composer.
Media Composer – Sort of new…
For a lot of people working on Media Composer, they require the editing package to function on a single machine in a ‘non-collaborative’ manner. By this Avid means, we are not using it on their shared storage systems, Avid ISIS or Avid NEXIS. Users can still share content via pocket drives and move bins around freely but with this restriction comes the added benefit of a 50% reduction in price. A license can be had for as little as US$19.99 per month.
Media Composer Ultimate – NEW
This new term is, in effect, the old Media Composer license price point, with added software options bundled in. Support for Shared Projects on Avid ISIS and NEXIS is added but we now also receive ScriptSync, PhraseFind and Symphony option in the same bundle. This is the option that most Post Houses will go for. Compare the models and their functions here
Extra Notes
Here are a few other items you should be aware of…
30 Day Trails
Avid has long allowed you to download Media Composer and run it on a 30-day trial. It’s worthwhile noting that when running in trial mode all the options are enabled, to give you an Ultimate License.
Existing Customers
If you already had a subscription in place before the new license release you will receive an Ultimate License. If you want to reduce your monthly cost, then you will need to end your old license and start a new one at the reduced cost.
Avid Support
When you purchase your Media Composer license you will have the ability to raise support cases should you experience issues with your system. If you require extended support, this can also be purchased and added to your account/license. For more information see the links below.
Here’s Avid view on the new family of licenses. and some useful links for help with Avid licensing.
Creative Broadcast & Film Production
Posted: June 10, 2018 in Advertising, Cameras, Documentary, Editing, Education, Film, Filming, live Event, media, Music Video, Radio, TelevisionTags: Andrew Phayer, creative broadcast and film production, Limerick Institute Of Technology, Munster Rugby, Student Work Experience, Survey
Student Work Experience Opportunities for Broadcast/Film and Media Industries
Interested in accepting a Creative Broadcast & Film Production student on a short work experience placement? By taking students on work experience, you get an opportunity to engage, inspire, and inform future media professionals about what working life is really like. If your company might be interested in taking part please complete the work experience survey below, there are only six questions and it should only take you less than two minutes to complete. All information will be added to a database of prospective companies to be used exclusively for work placements for Creative Broadcast & Film Production students from September 2018 onwards.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/obairCBFP
Below is a short video of a past graduate Andrew Phayer who currently works with Munster Rugby.
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Da Vinci Resolve 14 Certification
Posted: May 17, 2018 in EditingTags: Blackmagic, Da Vinci Resolve, LIT, Scott E Smith, simon mcguire
First cert in Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 14 Completed.
After an intense three day course on DaVinci Resolve, delivered by Telegael’s colourist Scott E Smith, I have successfully passed the assessment. Just need to test drive the new colour-correction skills on a few projects over the summer.
Cobblestones Wins First Award.
Posted: April 18, 2018 in Cameras, Documentary, Editing, Education, Film, Filming, live EventTags: Cobblestones, Colin Craker, creative broadcast and film production, Frame By Frame Student Showcase, LIT, Richard Harris Film Festival, simon mcguire, Sylvia Moore, Zeb moore
Colin Craker (3rd year Creative Broadcast and Film Production Student) receiving the #richardharrisinternationalfilmfestival award for film excellence.
Big congratulations to 3rd Year Creative Broadcast and Film Production student, Colin Craker, for winning the inaugural ‘Richard Harris International Film Festival Award for Film Excellence’, at the Frame By Frame Student Showcase on April 12th.
His short animation, titled ‘Cobblestones‘, had the audience spellbound with ‘Bladerunner’ visual influences and all produced using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects, which impressed the RHIFF team of Zeb and Sylvia Moore.
The Frame By Frame Student Showcase, was created and run by the Students and Staff of the Creative Broadcast and Film Production Programme at Limerick Institute of Technology and will return again in 2019 where new talent and display their work to their peers and industry professionals.
It is expected that Colin’s film along with the other productions will be entered into the Richard Harris Film Festival and will screen in October this year.
Zeb Moore (RHIFF), Simon McGuire (Post Production Lecturer) & Sylvia Moore (RHIFF) at the opening reception of the Showcase.
FRAME BY FRAME Student Showcase 2018
Posted: April 3, 2018 in Cameras, Documentary, Editing, Education, Film, Filming, live Event, mediaTags: creative broadcast and film production, Frame by Frame, LIT, Millennium theatre, Richard Harris Film Festival
Tuesday April 10th
Director David keating: Film director and screenwriter, His writing includes work for Columbia/Sony Pictures and Jim Sheridan’s script for INTO THE WEST. Director: THE LAST OF THE HIGH KINGS, (Miramax / IFB) with Jared Leto, Gabriel Byrne and Christina Ricci. WAKE WOOD (Hammer / IFB) with Aidan Gillen, Timothy Spall and Eva Birthistle. CHERRY TREE (MPI / IFB) — with Naomi Battrick, Anna Walton and Sam Hazeldene. CHERRY TREE was selected to open Film4 Frightfest 2015 in London’s Leicester Square, it had its US premiere at Lincoln Plaza in NYC November 2015.
David will be leading an interactive discussion on the role of the film director on a feature film, how to develop communication skills with crew members from distinctly varied disciplines: image, sound, design, production, finance. The language of direction for fiction, use of the Kuleshov effect in montage and narrative, subtext analysis and directing actors for screen. (Millennium Theatre LIT 11:00 – 13:00)
The talk will be followed by an intensive workshop (numbers limited) with collaboration from The Limerick School of Acting on directing actors for the screen. (Aula Maxima, LIT 14:00 – 16:00)
Wednesday April 11th
4 Corner Debate – Piracy
“Piracy is threatening the livelihoods of thousands of people who work in
the movie and TV industry”. Lead by Creative Broacast & Film Production
year 1 students. Come along & have your say. (Millennium Theatre LIT 13:00 – 14:00)
Marie-Therese Garvey – Documentary Production
Marie-Therese is an award-winning documentary film producer and founder of creative production company, Greater Than Ten Miles. (Atlantic (2016), narrated by Brendan Gleeson). In her talk she will explore the art of storytelling through mixed visual documentary modes, research skills in production, and documentary finance. (Millennium Theatre LIT 14:00 – 16:00)
Thursday April 12th
Scott Smith – The Final Edit
Scott has over 25 years of experience as an online editor, and 15 as colourist. He’s worked on hundreds of programmes, promos, and TVCs for major studios and broadcasters in the United States and Europe, including: Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, MGM, Disney, Castle Rock, FX, TNT, NBC, HBO, E! Entertainment, BBC, ITV, Channel 5, ZDF, S4C, UKTV, RTE, TV3, TG4, and UTV. He listens to his clients, and can take a project from script to finished broadcast programme. His primary tools are DaVinci Resolve, Avid Symphony, and Autodesk Smoke. (Millennium Theatre LIT 11:00 – 13:00)
The talk will be followed by an workshop on Da Vinci Resolve (Block 15C01 LIT 14:00 – 16:00)
Showcase Screening & Exhibition
Exhibition: Millennium Theatre Foyer LIT 11:00 – 21:30
Reception: Millennium Theatre Foyer LIT 18:00 – 19:00 – All Welcome.
Screening: Festival Screening overview with Zeb Moore – Richard Harris International Film Festival followed by student film & animation screenings + Inaugural “Richard Harris Award for Excellence in Film” presentation.
Millennium Theatre LIT 19:00 – 22:00
For more information contact: film@lit.ie
Leaders@Scholarship Awards 2017
Posted: December 12, 2017 in Editing, Education, live EventTags: Leaders@scholarship Awards, LIT, Millennium theatre
More than 70 Students benefit from 2017 Leaders@LIT Student Scholarship Programme
-Special Guest Speaker, Former Munster and Irish International Rugby Player, Paul O’Connell and the 34 donors who contributed €750,000 to the scholarship fund, show their support at a special awards ceremony at LIT.
More than 70 recipients of the 2017 Leaders@LIT Student Scholarship Programme, along with the 34 donors who have contributed €750,000 to the scholarship fund to date, were recognised at a special ceremony in Limerick Institute of Technology, December 4, 2017.
The LIT student scholarship aims to alleviate the strain of financial difficulties experienced by targeted student cohorts, and so allow the recipients to concentrate fully on their education and finish their course of study.
Had the pleasure of filming and editing the promotional video for this event which can be watch on the link below:
Limerick Chamber Business Awards 2017
Posted: November 12, 2017 in Editing, Filming, live EventTags: Limerick Chamber Business Awards
With 11 categories and over 33 companies shortlisted, this years Limerick Chamber Business Awards are more popular than ever with Limerick companies both large and small.
Returning again this year I have had the honor of filming short interviews with each of the nominees and then putting together both the nomination VTs for November 9th at the Greenhills hotel and the winning VTs for the awards night itself on November 17th at the Strand Hotel.
Best of luck to the nominees on Friday 17th Nov.
KEMMY Screening Friday 29th Sept
Posted: September 28, 2017 in Documentary, Editing, FilmTags: Family Planning Clinic, Jim Kemmy, Kemmy, Labour, limerick, LIT, Millennium theatre
Simon finishing the edit on “Kemmy”
Kemmy Doc to screen Friday 29th Sept
Posted: September 23, 2017 in Documentary, Editing, Film, live EventTags: Friday 29th September, Kemmy, Limerick Post, Millennium theatre
Simon McGuire 