Da Vinci Resolve is an extremely powerful color correction tool, found in many of the industry's top post production facilities. But not many people are aware that you can download the lite version for FREE.

Somewhere in between YouTube and 35mm theatrical film projection exists the new crossover known as digital projection/distribution. The high cost of producing 35mm film prints has been slashed by the wide acceptance and utilization of DCP hard drives and thumb drives for mainstream theatrical distribution, festival submission, large venue screenings, and transcoding down to DVD and smaller digital outlets.

Surround Sound for Cinema can be quite confusing, considering all of the audio release formats currently in use; not to mention all of the formats used in the recent past. I had set out researching all of this information, with the intention of organizing it all into one  concise and easy to understand article -- but I discovered that an anonymous scholar and former projectionist had already done it better than I could!

Sometimes you just really have to wonder what the heck those minds at Avid were thinking? I have recently tried upgrading to Media Composer 6 and learned that it is incompatible with any current or previous installations of Pinnacle Liquid, Pinnacle Studio, or Avid Studio. But there is an easy solution.