The January Newsletter: Bending the Spoon 01/02/12

The January issue of my monthly newsletter “Fresh Off the Vine” is out!
What’s new this month?

Video editing has become more and more about improvising (a.k.a. “hacking”) ways to become creative, technical and organized.

And often this means adapting and increasing our proficiency at things that have a huge impact on our ability to be get our job done.

This month’s CREATIVE article is about hacks for creative blocks. It’s part one of a series on tried and tested ways to get past creative blocks when editing a video.

This month’s TECHNICAL article is about writing scripts.

I know. The idea of writing scripts can be intimidating but it is important for us editors to know because it can automate functions and reduce the number of steps for a procedure.

This month’s ORGANIZED article is about creating an editorial workflow that is documented and continually monitored, adjusted and optimized.

And as usual I have:

“THE TWEET TOP 13″ – the funniest post-production related tweets from December.
Congrats to @ebrodeur, @sailawayandy, @kyl33t, @PeterWiggins, @blkNnerdy, @JeffYork, @djbtv, @FABULOSAisabel, @macgarp, @TyLeisher, @Dr0id, @alba and @TheEditDoctor.

“DEEP QUOTES” – insightful content creation quotes on the month’s theme.

“PROGRESS BAR” – a futurist take on trends & technologies changing the way we think, work & edit. This month: “Adobe CS6 in the Sky with Diamonds? (pt.1)″ I take a look at the rumored Adobe CS6 Production Bundle

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