Welp… as this story of ours continues to be written things have once again taking a turn. Not for the worst, just another direction. The plans to stay here in Arizona didn’t pan out, so at the end of this month our place of residence is up in the air. Are we moving back to Texas? Not sure. Chicago? Hmmm… not sure. Tennessee, Atlanta or Canada? All of these things are options at this point. We’re really not ruling anything out at this point. Who knows what’s next!

So since I can’t provide much info on our future, let me distract you with something else completely unrelated – but awesome!

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There’s been a lot going on lately with projects and such, and as much as I’d like to talk about all he fun stuff I’ve been working on I know many of you are probably still in the dark about where we’ll be living in the next couple months.

I’m probably a little late on the internet, blogosphere band wagon to see this, but I couldn’t help but be impressed! One thing I am not is an audio guy, so when I see this I’m pretty blown away with how well it’s all put together!

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So a few weeks ago I was asked to DP a project that needed to feel like a music video, and they wanted some 35mm action!  Unfortunately – or perhaps fortunately – I recently broke the coupler ring on my Redrock M2, and I needed to rent a cinema adapter package for this project.  I’d been wanting to work with the Letus Extreme for a while so seemed like a great opportunity! I rented one for the day, hired my buddy Keegan Ead to come AC for me, and it was a fantastic experience!

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Avid’s showin’ up at NAB this year and introducing some very Final Cut Pro-esc additions their the Avid Media Composer. Guess they have to keep up with their compitition!

You can read the article posted at StudioDaily.com.

I’m still a huge fan of Avid Media Composer, so I’m glad to see they’re making some moves in the right direction.

There’s still some debate out there as to weather or not moving away from the dongle is a good move on Avid’s part, but it personally doesn’t effect me either way. Honestly I think I’d rather have the extra USB port.

For all the Final Cut users out there: How much more likely are you to switch to Avid aftering hearing of these added features? If not at all, what would Avid have to do to win your loyalty?

- Tim Allen