Limerick Insider this month takes a look at the amazing ‘Pitch for Shane’, The GPC Powerlifting Championchips, The Belltable Arts Centre and Christmas in Limerick 2011.
Limerick Insider – November
Posted: December 5, 2011 in DocumentaryTags: A Pitch For Shane, belltable arts centre, Christmas in Limerick, GPC Powerlifting Championchips, limerick insider, Limerick.ie
Faster and better than ever
“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.”
It seems like it was only a few months since the last update… and in theory it has been for some. We barly get the cash together to get the 5.5 upgrade and Avid lands another on your purse strings. This time around the focus is on the 64bit operating systems. This is a huge welcome (dispite my earlier money worries). It was the natural progression Avid Technologies had to take. It remains to be seen if the upgrade is worth it and according to the website (see link below) the 5.5 version will have to be used by cutters who remain on a 32 bit OS.
As soon as I get my hands on the upgrade I’ll post a full review, ‘warts and all’.
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.”
This is an interesting topic of conversation for all in the technical aspect in the media. How long will it be before we see RTE, TV3, BBC etc moving to the same tactics?
Limerick Insider October
Posted: November 9, 2011 in Cameras, Documentary, Editing, mediaTags: Cusile Poetry Festival, Ladies Mini Marathon, Language Alive Week, limerick city, limerick county, limerick insider, Lough Gur StoryTelling, Outbreak Zombie Festival
Here is the October episode of Limerick Insider.
Featuring:
Language Alive Week, Cusile Poetry Festival, Ladies Mini Marathon, Lough Gur StoryTelling, Outbreak Zombie Festival
Call for Entries for 3rd Annual LIT FILM FESTIVAL 2012
Posted: November 4, 2011 in Cameras, Documentary, Editing, Film, media, Music VideoTags: Articles of Submission, Entry Forms, LIT FILM FESTIVAL
LIT FILM FESTIVAL GETS A NEW WEBSITE
Posted: November 3, 2011 in Cameras, Documentary, Editing, Film, mediaTags: LIT FILM FESTIVAL
Hi all
The following site www.LITFILMFESTIVAL.net has gone live. This will be the new home for all the details on the events, the short film competition and much much more. Check it out.
S
L.I.T. Film Festival 2012 Dates Announced
Posted: October 25, 2011 in Cameras, Documentary, Editing, Film, media, Music VideoTags: LIT, LIT FILM FESTIVAL, Millennium Theatre. Limerick, sony
LIT Film Festival Logo
The Dates for the 3rd LIT FIlm Festival 2012 have been set.
The Festival will take place primarily at the Millennium Theatre at Limerick Institute of Technology from Thursday April 26th to Saturday 28th. The three day event will feature a number of workshops, keynote speeches, demonstrations, an industry exhibition as well as the now much anticipated LIT FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS night which will take place on the Saturday (28th April)
Details of the call for entries to this years festival will be placed on this this site and other social networks in the next week.
We are delighted to announce the return of Sony Professional along with D+P Products (Ireland) as main sponsors of the festival.
More soon.
Limerick Student wins Becks Vier Video Competition
Posted: October 18, 2011 in Cameras, Editing, Film, media, Music VideoTags: Becks Vier, Limerick Institute Of Technology, Stephen Hall, Video and Sound Course LIT
A Limerick student, Stephen Hall, who in his second year of the Video & Sound Degree course at Limerick Institute of Technology, has won a video competition in conjunction with Beck Vier.
A national film competition called “Express Your Creativity” which involved developing and shooting a television advert for Becks Vier beer pulled a lot of interest from film makers from around the country. As a result his advert will appear on TV and cinemas regularly throughout November – a fantastic achievement for a 2nd year.
Here is the winning entry.
