A quick reminder that it’s just Four Days to go for the closing date for entries. All short films must arrive at the LIT Film Festival desk by end of business on Friday March 9th.
To note all entries must be accompanied by an application form (which is available on the Entry Form page.)
This year the special prizes are for the best short film from students of either 2nd Level or 3rd Level institutions. Sony Professional are sponsoring again and the prize details will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
Entries from general public, independent and small production companies are also accepted and there will be details of prizes for this category also released in the coming weeks.
This years festival sees extra attention on young film makers and their ability to share their imagination on screen. There will be multiple opportunities to share ideas, listen to professionals, and sample the latest equipment available from top industry manufactures such as Sony Professional as well as Irish distributors including D&P Products.
More details will be released shortly.
Festival Director.
Ok, cynical editor guy… Avid just released an editing app!
Avid Studio ($4.99) has just hit the App Store, and it’s SWEET. But, it also suffers from a few shortcomings. Just by looking at the app’s primary editing screen, you know Avid took their time in crafting an easy to understand, powerful, and deceptively simple interface.
In one quarter of the screen, users view thumbnails of all their media (videos, photos, music, transitions, etc.). The description of the app says you can also access media from external devices via the iPad camera connection kit. You can also capture video and photos from within the app.
Media is added to your edit with a simple drag and drop. Like most editing environments, Avid Studio is based on a timeline metaphor, but unlike its predecessors, this app has gone one step further by adding what it calls a ‘storyboard’ (a strip of small square thumbnails directly under the timeline). In the Storyboard strip, users can quickly tap and drag clips to reorder them, while keeping an eye on an overview of the entire project. While that sounds simple enough, most iPad and iPhone video editors lack this ability. Typically, users have to zoom in and out in order to re-orient themselves. By connecting their timeline with the storyboard strip, Avid Studio offers a BIG time savings.
The app also features custom motion titles, picture in picture effects, and 3D layered effects (using in-timeline drop-zones). Most are good-looking, although some suffer from templatitis.
Edits can be fine tuned (down to the frame) using the app’s built-in precision editing tools. Your project can be played back at any time in the preview area or full screen, although more complex effects may require rendering (not the speediest process). The app functions equally well in portrait and landscape mode, although landscape does allow for a wider view of your timeline.
Once your satisfied with your cut, you can render and upload your video to all the usual places (Facebook, Youtube, email, etc).
All is not perfect, however. I experienced a LOT of crashing on my iPad 1 (it performs much better on an iPad 2). So much crashing, in fact, that at some points I couldn’t even get the app to launch. Clearly, that needs to be addressed quickly or Avid stands to upset many potential customers. Also, I’d like to see the addition of more transitions (which is an odd request from me since I hate most transitions). And finally, if you hadn’t already guessed, Avid Studio is still simply a consumer app. There’s no EDL or XML export. So as of now, you can’t use Avid Studio as an offline editor. Perhaps that will change as the iPad seeps deeper into the filmmaking community.
Considering Avid’s long history as a leader in non-liner editing, stepping in to the consumer market is a bold step. All in all, Avid Studio is a beautifully simple editor with an absurdly low price. If you want to cut video on your iPad, this app is a great place to start (although if you’re an iPad 1 owner, you should wait for a stable update).
Avid Studio
Developer: Avid Technology Inc
Rated: 4+
Price: $4.99 VIEW IN APP STORE
(taken from http://www.handheldhollywood.com/latest-news/avid-studio-for-ipad.html)
Written by Eleanor McSherry (Limerick Journalist and Writer) for the Film Ireland Website, is an article/interview about the exciting plans for the old Theatre Royal site in Limerick City. (See Picture INSET)
If this project goes ahead this will certainly create new openings and opportuinities for both the media student and local film maker alike. Limerick has a wide variety of talent in this sector and a hub like this will cerrainly help film makers get their projects seen.
Read the Full Article HERE.
Hi all
Here is episode 10 of Limerick Insider. Nice feeling that we are now in double digits for this programme. Here’s to the next ten!!!
Watch out for our team filming in around Limerick City and County in the coming months.
Sony Professional and D&P Products have come onboard as main sponsors for the 3rd LIT Film Festival 2012.
For Details Check out this link
“Professional editors and producers like you around the world have told us what you need to succeed. More efficient and easy-to-use video editing tools. An open platform that enables you to work with everything you want and integrate into any workflow. More power to eliminate bottlenecks, so you can work faster than ever.”
This was taken from this SITE
“In a nod to the obvious, CNN announced yesterday that it was cutting its corps of cameramen.
Photographers, editors and other staffers in Atlanta, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Miami are being let go. In all, at least 50 positions are being eliminated. As many as 12 staffers in the Washington, DC bureau alone, four of whom are longtime photojournalists.
CNN Senior VP Jack Womack writes in a note to staff that the cuts come after a 3-year analysis of the company’s work processes.
Said Womack:
“We looked at the impact of user-generated content and social media, CNN iReporters and of course our affiliate contributions in breaking news. Consumer and pro-sumer technologies are simpler and more accessible. Small cameras are now high broadcast quality.”
Well, this is pretty inevitable.
When everyone and their brother has a video camera now… and when pretty much all of them are both HD and point and shoot, there isn’t a whoe lot to be said for investing $40-50K in a ‘broadcast quality’ camera, (whatever that now means) and some guy to drag it around.
It’s unfortunate for those who used to earn their living doing this, but it’s the natural consequence of the intersection of technology and economics. Farriers also are highly skilled, but there isn’t a whole of work for them these days.
The good side for former cameramen is that the demand for video, per se, is escalating at a phenomenal rate – but they have to deliver a finished product, not just the pictures.”
Here is the October episode of Limerick Insider.
Featuring:
Language Alive Week, Cusile Poetry Festival, Ladies Mini Marathon, Lough Gur StoryTelling, Outbreak Zombie Festival
Simon McGuire 