Frame by Frame

I’m beginning to understand the appeal a bit more now that I’ve been able to view things such as football and rugby matches in 3D, and now that people are becoming more familiar with the techniques to correctly shoot for 3D.

I’m not bothered about the new technologies and terminologies so much. I generally enjoy the challenges and opportunities to see how new methodologies can be used in storytelling. It’s the creative implications that this could have for editors, as well as the cast and crew of any given production, that concerns me.

Today another editor on my course came into my room sounding rather excited about Microsoft’s latest announcement for user interfacing – the Windows 7 multi-touch:

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7
This of course is a subject we’ve all discussed before – what if editing could have the user interface of Minority Report?

In the film, Tom Cruise reviews [...]

This is my latest toy.  It’s a Contour ShuttlePRO v.2, USB interface, 15 customisable buttons (plus jog/shuttle), a shed load of application pre-loads, plus import/export on your custom settings whenever you take it anywhere else.
In Avid, the inner dial will move your playhead along one frame at a time (at just the right sensitivity), and the outer will play your video [...]