Call for Entries – Catalyst International Film Festival National Short Film Student Award 2025

Posted: December 5, 2024 in Documentary, Film, Film Festival
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The Dept of Digital Arts & Media, LSAD, are thrilled to announce that submissions for Catalyst International Film Festival 2025 are now open! This is your chance to be part of a festival that celebrates DIVERSE STORIES and DIVERSE STORYTELLING.

Emerging Filmmakers:

We are keen to engage with emerging filmmakers, broadening the horizons of future filmmakers and audiences alike.

What We’re Looking For:

✨ Films that promote gender equality, diversity, and inclusion.

✨ Stories from voices that struggle for visibility in mainstream film festivals.

✨ Films that entertain, engage, challenge, and inspire.

National Student Short Film Awards 2025 – Free entry to LSAD students and 2024 Graduates

✨ Student Submissions now open via Filmfreeway;  https://filmfreeway.com/CatalystInternationalFilmFestival 

✨ Fee waiver code for all TUS Student submissions:  TUSdm2025

✨ Festival takes place in Limerick April 3-5th April 2025

✨ Catalyst International Film Festival Website: https://catalystinternationalfilmfestival.com/

Submit today! 

Final Cut Pro 11 – Released

Posted: November 17, 2024 in Editing
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Today, Apple unveiled Final Cut Pro 11 — supercharged with intelligent new features — along with powerful updates to Final Cut Pro for iPad, Final Cut Camera, and Logic Pro. Offering new tools like Magnetic Mask and the highly anticipated Transcribe to Captions, Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac also supports the import, edit, and delivery of spatial video projects directly to Apple Vision Pro. (Apple, 2024)

Y.M. cinema have a review of the new version of the NLE and this can be accessed HERE

FCP on Mac and IPad

Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.1 brings beloved features to the touch-first editing experience. Powered by Apple silicon, Enhance Light and Colouris an intelligent way to improve colour, colour balance, contrast, and brightness in video or still images in one simple step, and is optimised for SDR, HDR, RAW, and Log-encoded media. With haptic feedback for Apple Pencil Pro and Magic Keyboard, users will feel a light pulse as they trim clips, move media, navigate the timeline, and resize viewer clips to snapping points. (Apple,2024)

Final Cut Camera

Finally , Final Cut Camera 1.1 brings intuitive pro controls for aspiring and professional directors. The update offers users the ability to capture Log-encoded HEVC video in standalone or Live Multicam sessions, so users can take advantage of the amazing dynamic range of Log while benefitting from reduced file sizes and even more recording time. Final Cut Camera also allows users to enable a LUT preview while recording in Log, showcasing the vibrancy of the original scene in SDR or HDR with the Apple Log LUT. With iPhone 16 Pro, users can record beautiful and crisp 4K120 fps footage for even smoother cinematic slow motion, import it into Final Cut Pro for iPad, and begin their edit. (Apple, 2024)

Positive Male Role Models

Posted: November 15, 2024 in Uncategorized
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David Puttnam will speak to TUS students and staff on Tuesday 19th of November through Teams at 10.30am about his illustrious career and the theme of positive male role models running through his films. A short panel discussion will involve Dr. Simon McGuire and Alan Tobin. Register your attendance here – https://tus.ie/edi/events/

Doctor of Education (Ed.D)

Posted: November 5, 2024 in Editing, Education
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Delighted to achieve a Doctorate of Education from Bournemouth University, UK with my thesis entitled; Crafting the Andragogy: a study of the teaching and learning of film and broadcast editing in Irish Higher Education 2017-2020.

All New Series of Word on the Street coming soon.

Posted: October 13, 2024 in Advertising, Audio, Cameras, Craft & Craftsmanship, Editing, Education, Filming, live Event, Live Stream, media, music, Music Video, post-production, Sound, Technology, Television
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Film CEL is back in production once again on a new series of Word On The Street, which is now in its eight year.

Covering stories across the multiple campuses of TUS, WOTS will be bringing all the colour, faces and events that students and staff are engaged in during the academic year.

We are proud to cover these events and should there be a story you would like to see covered then drop us an email to filmcel@tus.ie

EUNIC Film Festival 2024

Posted: September 29, 2024 in Education, Film, Film Festival
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EUNICS Short Shorts 2024 Film Festival will be held in the Millenium Theatre again this year: 17th October 2024 at 6 pm. 

The Eventbrite booking link is now live:

Register on Eventbrite

Feel free to share the link above.

VFX Workflows

Posted: September 27, 2024 in Education, Film
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VFX Workflows Masterclass – Free entry – Booking required
Open to current students and graduates of the Creative Broadcast and Film Production Programme

Location: Engine Building, Cecil Street, Limerick V94 TN32
Mario Beck worked as the pre-vis artist on Alien Romulus and The First Omen. He also was responsible for the virtual production in the TV show Moonhaven. In this workshop, Mario will explore the workflow from pre-vis to delivery of VFX shots.
This one-day masterclass will use Mario’s previous work as case studies while exploring emerging possibilities in the ever evolving field of VFX. It is aimed to equip participants with an understanding of the workflows required to integrate VFX practice into projects of different scales.
For info and applying:

https://lnkd.in/ezGMN5aD

DaVinci Resolve 19

Posted: August 25, 2024 in Editing, post-production, Technology
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DaVinci Resolve 19.0 has just been officially released, moving out of the public beta phase. There’s no changelog differentiating this final version from R19pb6, suggesting that R19pb6 was the finalized version. For a detailed overview of the major new features introduced throughout the R19 release cycle, I’m including a link to the Read Me for this release. CLICK HERE

For those who have been waiting for the beta to conclude before upgrading to R19, I recommend holding off for a bit longer. Historically, the initial release often comes with some bugs that need to be addressed, so it’s wise to wait for one or two updates before making the switch.

(Info via: The Color Grading Newsletter, Curated & Published
by Patrick Inhofer)

Let CRAFT Edit your Short Film

Posted: August 1, 2024 in Documentary, Editing, Film, Film Festival, post-production, Technology
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As the Irish Film Festival circuit gains momentum, and the weather is holding, film makers around the country are racing to complete production on their short films. This is where CRAFT and help. With several short films completed and gone on to win awards around he country and abroad, we are eager to work with filmmakers from not just the Mid-West but further afield.
We have the gear, software and most importantly knowledge and experience to deliver your story to the highest standards.
Also we can come to you, as we also have a mobile edit kit.

Check our CRAFT HERE

Film CEL Highlights Reel 2024

Posted: June 6, 2024 in Cameras, Craft & Craftsmanship, Documentary, Editing, Education, Film, Filming, media, music, Music Video, post-production, Sound, Technology, Television
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This is the Film CEL Highlights Reel 2024, featuring an array of programmes, productions and projects the crew worked on.

Well done to the whole crew.

We look forward to the next crew joining us and seeing what creativity and ideas they bring.

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