NAB Day 2

Day 2 is over. Another day of post production sessions. Today’s highlights included tips on RED ONE Final Cut Workflows. Specifically on importing the high quality footage in it’s native format to make use of the raw meta data in color correction. It also greatly speeds up transfer times. This is something I’m really excited to start experimenting with as opposed to compressing the footage to Pro Res.

Next up was a class on DSLR audio solutions. Not much new here other than some nice demos on a cool piece of software called plural eyes that automatically syncs your video footage and high quality audio that was recorded separately. It’s seems like a huge time saver and a valuable piece of software.

Another class I attended was on utilizing Apple’s audio solution Soundtrack Pro for full mastering. I’ve been a big fan of this software but haven’t been mixing with it as much as I’d like. There’s some amazing tools that I have been in the dark on that I’m really looking forward to adding to my editing workflow including amplitude reduction and compression and EQ techniques.

All in all it was a lot of lectures and sitting so I’m really looking forward to the exhibits opening tomorrow. I promise to upload lots of images showing the highlights of the show so stay tuned!

– Matthew