DV for Teachers

Last week’s 2-pop watch continues….#

Other difficulties: the DV List seems to have stalled with no new posts since July 25. The DV List is a repository of many excellent exchanges among experience pros and eloquent amateurs regarding equipment, techniques, production, editing, copyright, and the occasionally-squelched OS flame war. A very high signal-to-noise ratio on this list; tune in and hope for its recovery.#

Steve Martin has started Ripple Training, a new training company and site for Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. His site, like his previous work at DV Guys and at DVcreators.net has great downloadable QuickTime clips demonstrating tips and techniques that demystify these sophisticated programs.

Steve is a nationally-known DV editing expert and trainer. He used to be with dvcreators.net, and he’s the guy who made my head explode when I took their 3-day DV Revolution workshop a year and a half ago.#——-

I used to like 2-pop a lot. Note the link is to a cached page from Google of what 2-pop looked like as recently as July 27th. Today, the page is nowhere to be found; no redirect, just gone. It may come back, but the folks that bought 2-pop, the “Creative Planet Communities” entity, part of “United Entertainment Media, Inc., A CMP Information Company” aren’t the ones to ask; the “webmaster” address on their pages gets kicked back with a “permanent error.”

2-pop used to be the go-to place on the web for DV questions. They started their DV for Teachers forum just three days after the first post on this site. Many of the regular helpers there have moved on to other forum sites, and if I could find them they are posted in the links on the right of the home page. They had posted a great series of articles, tutorials, and best-of-the-boards discussions that were full of great information. I’ll keep the link to 2-pop for a while longer, in the hope that its owners will restore this valuable chunk of collective memory to us. In the meantime, if you find valuable material on the web that you think you’ll need again, consider making that personal backup of it just in case it gets 2-popped. *——-