One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 18 January 2006

.< 9:25:14 AM >
A Heap of Editing Advice

Robert Hogan passes along some great editing advice as he works on his film Los Tres Cabrones:

Make the hard sacrifices to keep it short. Just because a scene is pretty doesn’t mean you should spend five minutes on a scene that could achieve the same impact in two minutes.

If your shot contains action that exits the frame, do not linger on it, even for a couple frames. Don’t give the audience a chance to think about when the cut is going to occur.

There's more at Adventures in Storytelling: On Editing.

< 9:21:13 AM >

People are starting to get their copies of iLife '06, so now is a good time to pass along one of the best pieces of upgrade advice I can give:

Before upgrading, rename your existing iLife applications.

The installer looks for "iMovie HD", for example, and will upgrade that copy. If you want to revert back to your existing version for whatever reason, or you just want it for testing, simply rename the application to "iMovie HD 5" before running the iLife '06 installer. It's not a bad idea to copy it to another hard drive as a backup, just in case. (But you're already diligent about backups, right? Right??)

I've just started playing with iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6, and will report more of my findings here.