Category: Misc

Thinking of attending the South-by-Southwest (SXSW) film festival this year? Scott Kirsner snagged some great advice on attending and submitting films from one of the festival organizers, Jarod Neece: CinemaTech: Tips on South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival.

If you recently installed Flip4Mac, a utility that lets you play Windows media files within QuickTime, and you’re running into problems with iMovie HD 6 or QuickTime 7.0.4, uninstall Flip4Mac. I’ve exchanged email with at least one person who was hit by the incompatibility, and there are other reports at Apple’s Support Discussions about iMovie ...

Wired News has a story about a few DV movie directors who are exhibiting at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival: Wired News: Whither the DIY Auteurs of DV?. While Moonshine has yet to be screened for the media or audiences — Ingraham was still fine-tuning the movie a week before its premiere — it already ...

My Seattle Times Practical Mac column is now online, where I talk about what was released at the show and Apple’s focus on the Mac this time around: The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Apple has its eye on more than iPods.

Here at Macworld, I was just interviewed by Michael Verdi and Ryanne Hodson of freevlog.org, who are also writing a book for Peachpit called “Secrets of Videoblogging”. The post should be up soon at http://nectar.peachpitconnect.com/. It’s fun to be sitting in the lobby on the floor, blogging about vlogging. Vlogging is one of those things ...

Chris Gaither at the LA Times wrote a good piece about this week’s announcement of Google Video, especially noting that anyone will be able to charge for their videos: Google Video Seeks a Bite of Apple’s Market. I think that over time, this could be huge. After all, you’d like to make some money off ...

Sony released 250,000 superballs down the steep streets of San Francisco to create a commercial for its new Bravia LCD television line (which BoingBoing wrote about when it happened in July; see this Flickr photoset documenting the event). The ad is just beautiful and amazing: Sony BRAVIA – The Advert.

Scott Kirsner (via his CinemaTech weblog) wrote an article in the New York Times about the new crop of video-sharing sites that have appeared recently: Now Playing: Your Home Video.

I’m including this link here mostly so I can find it again later to go through the delicious sublinks to Murch material: Aesthetics of Walter Murch. But I also wanted to note two documentaries I’ve recently seen. Tonight I watched The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing, which was very good, offering a history ...

Apple added some interesting flair to their video offerings this week with the introduction of an iPod capable of playing video, iTunes 6 with support for purchasing music video and television shows from the iTunes Music Store, and the new iMac G5 with built-in iSight video camera, a remote control, and Front Row software for ...