An assignment that turned out to be fun. My first DJ gig, after having all the DJ gear for only about 3 weeks prior. Learned a bit about Torq and the Xponent, and then went into the studio and cut 50 minutes of electronic music, to be used with the bass and guitar loops live. It got chopped to twenty minutes at the gig, so there is more I'll be posting

NAB Guest Speaker Dan Lebental —film editor for ‘Iron Man’, ‘Iron Man 2’, and ‘Couples Retreat’—joins Avid application artist Michael Krulik on stage to discuss keeping everything organized between nine assistant editors, ten Media Composer systems, and Avid Unity shared storage, “You have to use

Avid application artists Brian Carter and Gil Gowing demonstrate how an audio production environment with Pro Tools|HD as a hub can score and mix a broadcast spot in under 15 minutes. During the presentation Brian and Gil work with an ICON D-Control digital console, Eleven Rack for guitar amps, virtual instruments, and an M-Audio Axiom Pro MIDI controller

NAB Guest Speaker Peter S. Elliot —film editor for ‘2012’ and ‘Independence Day’—joins Avid application artist Michael Krulik on stage to discuss editing visual effects on disaster movies, the role of the editing assistant on feature films, and the experience of working with six Mac-based Media Composer’s hooked

Take a look at what an integrated media enterprise actually looks like. Avid application artists Corey Tedrow, Michael Krulik, Brian Carter, and Gil Gowing demonstrate how to improve collaboration between audio and video post production as well as making the most of your important assets. Download the Podcast: Asset Management, Collaboration, and Distribution

NAB Guest Speakers Jake Aust, Producer for the NBC comedy Community, and Mark Binder, Mixer, Sound Supervisor and Re-Recording mixer for the NBC comedy 'Community'. Download the Podcast: NBC comedy 'Community' Post Production and Sound Mixing, April 2010 (M4V) Running time: 17 minutes • Questions, comments and suggestions - send in an email •

In just two months, we’ll be releasing Media Composer 5.0. Today, at NAB you’ll be getting a sneak peak at some of the new features that help keep Media Composer at the top of the pack in terms of openness, speed, performance, file format support, accessibility and collaboration. Download the Podcast: New Features in Media Composer 5, April

We see the Internet as the next platform for content creation by professionals. This is a technology demonstration, it may not get to market in ways that resemble what you see here, but we’re so excited by what we’ve accomplished so far, we wanted to share our vision of web-based editing, and back that up with some concrete technology that

Avid's Chairman and CEO Gary Greenfield and SVP of Products, Chris Gahagan discuss (among other things) our intent to acquire Euphonix, our Integrated Media Enterprise (IME) framework; new, native support for Panasonic's AVC-Intra P2HD format from ingest to playout; and of course, all the great features in our new editing systems: Media Composer v5;

Recently, I had the chance to moderate a live chat with two members of the editorial department for Avatar. Not only is it the biggest box office hit of all time, it's also nominated in nine different categories in the Academy Awards. Joining us for the web chat were co-editors Steve Rivkin , and first assistant editor Jason Gaudio . Steve and Jason