Steve Martin of Ripple Training, on Ken Stone’s site: Managing Your FCP X Events & Projects using Disk Images. This looks like an excellent workflow. Haven’t upgraded/downgraded/sidegraded to FCPX yet, but I know I will, and this will make working with it so much easier. A real find.

Well isn’t this interesting? A presenter can mirror the iPad screen wirelessly – what could teachers do with this? Very impressive, and apparently they spent only about $150.

Teachers and corporate presenters alike begged Apple for video mirroring capabilities for the iPad, and the company delivered the feature in the iPad 2. Apple’s solution still leaves users tied to a cord, however, so two employees at networking service provider Straight Up Technologies developed a simple hack to give their client wireless HDMI output and freedom of movement while sharing the iPad’s screen.

via iPad wireless HD mirroring hack makes for better presentations.

How cool is this – add storage space for media to your iPad!

I have discovered, after reading a hard-to-find hint elsewhere on the web, that photos and videos can be stored on an SD card, and imported with the SD card adapter in the Camera Connection Kit, as long as the filenames are in a recognised format. The original hint I found suggested that just naming the files correctly would work but I found that the files need to be in a specific folder to be recognised.

via Extra photo and video storage for iPad – Mac OS X Hints.

Philip Hodgetts, long a Final Cut authority, asks if the rumors about a new 64 bit Final Cut Pro might be true and speculates on what that would mean. It’s only speculation, and the comments include lots of wishful thinking, but it’s informed speculation. After the unveiling of the new iMovie for iPad and the praise it’s had, there’s apparent reason for anticipation.

Creative COW is the odd acronym for “Creative Communities of the World,” an online community where established pros in filma and video come to learn, teach, and share information about the ever-changing world of moving image production, post-production, and exhibition. The author of the article linked below, for example, created the trailers for James Cameron’s Avatar. At the proper forum on the same site, you can find basic help regarding iMovie or Windows Movie Maker.

The particular article I’m linking here, called Relax, and Quit Bluffing: Aspect Ratios and Workflows, offers a history of the different frame sizes for feature film production and exhibition from the invention of film through the contemporary use of digital SLR still cameras for capturing high-definition video. You don’t have to be deeply into the history of technology to appreciate this; knowing how current standards evolved will only help you better grasp where they may be going.

Click here to watch the video.

Update: fixed broken link to video after moving it to Public Dropbox folder. Login no longer needed.

Further evidence that it’s not the tools, but how you use them.

Before I get to the mechanics of everything in this post, I want to say a bit about why to do all this, and it’s much more than “branding” yourself. I had not long before found a post on 3 Quarks Daily, a group blog on current affairs, about thinking and working in this new economy and this new century. It was a link to an interview and podcast with Seth Godin, an unconventional marketing consultant and author. In this service economy, most of us have to provide something unique—there are videographers and editors all over. To be successful, Godin asserts that we have do our work as an artist would, to add ourselves in essential ways to what we do. After listening to this podcast a few times, and starting to read his blog, I’ve tried to consciously bring more of that attitude to what I do, and I encourage you to do that as well, and tell the story of it through social media. Now, to the links:

We talked of course about Facebook, and we also looked at this Mashable page about its privacy issues. There is of course Twitter, and I briefly pointed to this article about ways to use Twitter for business. Our own Carl Marxer provided a link on the spot to his own advice on using Twitter and other social media.

We focused mainly on LinkedIn, the networking site for professionals. Mashable, linked above, also had a page about searching for jobs on LinkedIn.

MCA-I member Jose Acosta explained how he’s found clients through Facebook as well as his LinkedIn page, and showed his SmugMug portfolio site. Looks nice!

I showed how easy it is to get a good, free blog for creating a website at WordPress.com. There are other options, of course, but I’m familiar with WordPress and it has a huge user base. I showed this article for using WordPress to set up a professional site and weblog.

Posterous is another site offering free blogs, and is easy to update via email. Educational Technologist Tony Vincent explains some features of Posterous here

An example with real relevance for media professionals is Steve Bransford’s blog, Downhome Traces. Steve regularly posts video of historians and long-time Atlanta residents sharing the history and their memories of Atlanta. It’s an absorbing site, offering interesting insight into our local scene, and a great showcase for his skills.

Other example sites: The DV Show, with regular informative posts and sometime video interviews with filmmakers, videographers, and equipment manufacturers.

Finally, that day I showed how relevant blogs and social networks can be, showcaseing Mac-watcher John Gruber’s Daring Fireball site, and his pointers to that day’s announcement of Google’s open-sourcing the VP8 video codec, and the new cloud storage service from Google. Both of these could have big impacts on how video professionals post and store video for online use.

MakeMKV Rips DVDs and Blu-Rays With Just Two Clicks – dvd ripping – Lifehacker.

I haven’t tested this, but it is worth pointing to.