Momentary flashes of clarity and terror

We snug the belt down over our hips, feel the thin leather creak around our fists, watch the needles climb into the red as the lights glimmer and flicker towards us. Beside and before and behind and surrounding us machinery spins and spools and clunks and festers, waits and lurks, screams and strains.

Our teeth clench around the toothpick, chin dips as eyes narrow into the mercury glare burning through the thin-slit screen ahead.

New.

Fucking.

Project.

…and the world drops away beneath us.

Tempo-locked music edits

It's relatively straightforward, for many music tracks, to calculate the tempo. Many mp3 tracks already store that information in metadata anyway. So why doesn't the edit software we most enjoy swearing at offer a 'lock edits to audio track beats' feature? 'Snap to bars' would be a tremendously useful tool when cutting montage… so long as you could toggle it off quickly.

Presets

Speaking of inane presets that make your finely-crafted work look like utter crap via the most efficient route possible, Final Cut Pro X has this to offer:



What.

The.

Frack.

Were.

They.

Thinking?

New Vimeo Features

Vimeo has introduced the ability to add 'looks' to your videos.
It's a bit like Instagram for video and it adds a graded look to your entire video.

At the moment it's free so get over to https://vimeo.com/enhancer and have a play.
In the future you'll have to pay $0.99 for each effect.

It's powered by Vivoom if you have to know and the interface is nice and simple and it's easy and fun to use. Would I use it professionally? Nope, but there's nothing wrong with a bit of fun. Would I pay $0.99? Probably not.

If they can get it working with a mobile phone interface I'm guessing it'll become more popular.

Vimeo has also introduced the ability to add music to your videos. There are even some free tracks on offer.

Free Film Burns

They're free; they're film burns.
Well, they look more like lens flare to me, but they are still nice.
And they're free.

Go to Digital Cinema Foundry to find out more.

SPOD

That feeling when you fumble the mouse and click the drive in the Events list rather than the disclosure triangle next to it, and FCPX dutifully loads every. damn. clip. on. the. drive?

That.

Still waiting.

Ugh.

Weirdest timeline I've ever seen

This looks ridiculous:

Narrative parts are multicamera blocks, in between which I have not quick-cut montage but composites of multiple clips drifting across the canvas. Those are the vertical stacks. I've never seen a timeline that looked even vaguely like this before.

Sorting out the audio is going to be a nightmare.