Anybody use Final Cut Express??

I'm in the market for a good, relatively cheap (but must be good) video editing software.  Right now I'm leaning towards Final Cut Express.  I have a Mac, btw, so windows-based software is a no-go for me--even though I could run it in Parallels--I don't want to.

I have a video editing project for a friend for her business and am madly trying to come up to speed on doing this.   Any clues/suggestions/whatever would get my undying gratitude.

Is SPN back on tomorrow? (Please say yes)

I seem to think it's back tomorrow--I'm hoping my excitement won't be dashed here.  Is it?

To everyone going to LA Con!!!

Have a BLAST and raise a GLASS (heh, I rhymed!) to fickleone and I.  Make sure the boys know we love them!  And Misha, Mark, et al.....

I'll be looking over your shoulders virtually via Twitter and LJ and cannot wait to here all about it.  LA Con was the first SPN con fickleone and I went to in 2008 (any my first ever con.)  We met so many great people there and made so many friends.  I wish we were there with you this weekend.

Leverage Con-Con:: Random photos from the event

I just realized that I've got a large list of things to do over the next few weeks that will take up a lot of my free time.  So while I'd wanted to process the rest of my Leverage Con-Con photos and do a somewhat thoughtful set of posts about them.  I don't think that's going to happen.  If I don't post what I have now, it may not get done for months. 

So here's a random set of photos that I've gone through from the Leverage Con-Con.  No particular order here.  They are more grainy than I'd like. I guess renting that bad-ass lens really does make a difference!  But I didn't feel like lugging it around at this event.  So I went low-key and casual with my photo taking.

I also didn't get as many photos of Tim or Gina because of where I was sitting--I didn't get much of a clear view of them most of the time.

( lots of photos under the cut... )

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Final Cut...

Earlier today I asked if anyone used Final Cut Express for video editing.  I ended up purchasing the software a short time ago.  Right after I bought it I found this....

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Ha!  That's Dean Devlin with Tim Hutton.  Final Cut Studio is the professional version of Final Cut Express.

When the special effects guys had their panel someone asked them what technology they used.  Basically the answer was Macs....  The tech geeky graphics guy (who I loved!!!) said basically "Apple Rules." 

I have a whole bunch of photos from that panel as well as from the writers panel.  I may just upload those someday.

Update:  I wanted to capture a bit of the text from the source article here:

Go behind the scenes of “Leverage,” and you’ll get an equally forward look at an inside job. Taking a page from his own script, “Leverage” Executive Producer and consummate industry insider Dean Devlin has created the show’s first 13 episodes entirely within the walls of Electric Entertainment, his full-service production shop, using a completely self-contained digital post workflow anchored by Final Cut Studio.

"We do the entire show in Final Cut Studio," says Devlin, who also runs Electric Entertainment. "We shoot on the Red One camera, bring it back on hard drives, and put it in our Xsan. Then every department here pulls off those servers whether it's for digital effects, sound effects, sound mixing, picture editing, color correction, everything. And it never leaves our building. This is all able to happen because of Final Cut Studio."

I admit I knew nothing about the creators/producers/writers of Leverage prior to attending the con, but after hearing them talk on several panels and especially after seeing them fill time for 2 hours and keep in interesting...I'm starting to fangirl these guys.  I just now checked out Devlin's IMDB entry.  He was the producer on Independence Day, Stargate, The Patriot...  I'm impressed.  Plus I love how his studio is so self contained.

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