We now have a page up for the book on the Focal web site with pages on Amazon and the other on-line booksellers to follow.
We are about 95% done the first draft of the manuscript.
Final Cut Pro Workflows: The Independent Studio Handbook will be available in November!
So, there is one thing we are not crazy about with the icons below, and I thought I might put it out there as a question:
What is a better symbol for creativity than a light-bulb?
Here is our first look at new icons from the designers at Focal. We love the look!
The book includes three thematic icons that serve as a reference to the content.
We’ve just sent out FPO versions of these icons to the book designers at Focal Press. Below are our rough icons, it will be interesting to see what they come up with.
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I’m glad to say that the book is coming together slowly but surely.
I find the process, especially because it is a collaboration, fascinating.
In the book, we use the metaphor that editing video is like carving a statue from stone – you just need to cut away the parts that don’t look good.
That works well for the book, but in terms of actually creating the book, I would twist the metaphor around a bit, to say that we are cutting away the stone to make the statue that the stone naturally wants to be.
Which is to say that rather than making intellectual and creative choices, it feels more like we are revealing the true and ideal expression ideas and concepts that we have lived for a long time.
Fascinating event at GW this week.
Great panels, one with the web strategists from the McCain, Obama, and Clinton campaigns, and another with very interesting execs from the big social networking sites.
The highlight for me however was a film called 18 in 08 that I thought was just brilliant.
I finally made it out to one the Docs in Progress events.
This is a cool venue for filmmakers to get open feedback – takes thick skin.
I was especially impressed with Nina’s new film Matador, which will be completed later this Summer.
We are writing on our book full-time these days, and that last post got me to thinking about one of our major themes:
As the financial ceiling on professional quality production gear lowers, the new mark of professionalism will be the knowledge, creativity, and skill that you bring to a project.
While I have nowhere near the techno-lust that Rob has, I must admit that it was cool to see a brand new Mac Pro (8 processors, 5 gigs of RAM) and the Panasonic P2 HD camera sitting in my living room.
It reminded me of capturing DV through Firewire into FCP for the first time. That was the Summer of 1999.
I wonder what resolution we will be working in 8 years from now, in 2015?
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