2017 Sundance Film Festival Highlights the Creative Synergy between USC Alums and Avid
By Jim Bask

While attending the famed USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles, most students dream of one day impressing film buffs with their very own cinematic tour de force.

For many, the weekend of April 22-23 will be the calm before the NAB Show storm, but for some making their way out to Las Vegas it’ll be the opening course. For the fourth consecutive year Avid will host Avid Connect on the Saturday and Sunday before the NAB Show officially gets underway, and as Avid’s President Jeff Rosica pointed out, the event helps many attendees get in the zone before the broadcast industry’s marquee conference.


In this Variety article, new reports on the revenue generated by virtual reality creative content project into the billions for 2017!
One of the conundrums with creating in-house video can be how not to take the content out-of-house to get it to your in-house audience. If your building or campus was wired for closed circuit television you have no problem. But few are, and that’s not an expense that most schools, government facilities, or corporations want to undertake.


Slow motion has always been complicated for cinematic storytellers. Whether it was having to rent special cameras and burn a ton of film in the old days, or complicated workarounds involving shooting unintended formats and frame rates with more recent indie options, slow motion is an essential element…