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Cuts Launches Amidst Online Video Editor War

Pretty amazed at the wealth of riches in this space all of the sudden.

Lawrence Lessig – Copyright Policy: Orphaned Works Reform
Master Plan – About the power of Google

Both of these pieces are doing something similar. They are using motion graphics and typeography to help illustrate and enliven spoken word material. I think that the Master Plan piece is better visually (which is admittedly much easier at 3:15 instead of 36:00. However, the content of Lawrence Lessig’s piece is far more effective if only because he is much more experienced at speaking and he is much more knowledgeable about his topic. It definitely shows how substance can beat out style, but it also shows how compelling voices and messages are really the most important part of a informational, educational or political piece.

The Lawrence Lessig film is below:

Digital effects in Pirates of the Caribbean III | CNET News.com

Create Digital Motion » Luxeed Keyboard with Interactive Lighting: Perfect Gigging QWERTY?

Those using Live for doing live audio or similar programs for video (or gamers) are in a constant hunt for the perfect keyboard companion to their exploits. Also, video editors, audio editors and anyone who spends multiple hours of the day in an application with a zillion keyboard shortcuts.

The Optimus keyboard has been long in coming, but was the great hope. If this keyboard actually ships in a reasonable period of time, could it be a realistic option? It looks like it has a multi-color LED under each key, which allows you to set the color of each key separately. That isn’t the same thing as actually having a picture or word on each key, but it can at least remind you that jkl is for your transport and [] is for your begin and end clip by having them be different colors.

also, it looks cool.

Put 1080p to shame. At the normal wall-to-couch distance, it probably won’t make much difference. For monitoring and checking footage, it could be amazing. Also, you now that now the television companies have got you on the same wagon as the computer and cell phone companies that the minute 1080p is as common as NTSC is now, that we’ll already have 8k TVs, right?

Sharp’s 4k x 2k 64-inch ultra high res monitor – Engadget

More flashy-flash-flash for a snowy day in Seattle.

Onyx VJ – Flash based VJ Mixer

Check out the online demo, it is very fun. Plus bonus is that he is providing the source code which is just fabulous for learning some advanced flash stuff. Daniel Hai is my new hero.

JVC HD Everio: Full Consumer HD? – Gizmodo

It’s full HD, but unfortunately not progressive; with a 60 GB hard drive. This is an awesome step. I don’t know if it will be the camera for me (I’m waiting for 1080p and a non-sucky MPEG2 implementation), but it definitely means that we could expect much better in the near future.

I’ve been thinking of the jumpy text thing that everyone was doing for a while. So, a few minutes with the wiggler and some animation presets later and…

After Effects Portal: Tutorials

Nice collection of links to After Effects tutorials on-line.

I heard about Stray Cinema on This Week in Media. They are an “open source” movie: they have all their takes on the site for download, and they are asking people to make their own edits of the film. Sounds like it could be a very fun and instructive exercise for a budding editor or director. Kind of like Panaroma Ephemera, but with more chance of promotion opportunities to the world.

It’ll be really interesting to see the different takes on the film. Hopefully, they will post all of them on the site.