Musuem of the Moving Image

The Museum of the Moving Image is a great site to learn about the history of cinema.


The website also features the Pinewood Dialogs, "discussions with creative figures in film, television, and digital media." Interviews include Francis Ford Coppola, Thelma Schoonmaker, Terry Gilliam and Jerry Lewis to name a few. You can listen on the site or subscribe to these interviews as a podcast.

Really great stuff - check it out.

Ripple Delete

Here's a quick and clean way to delete a clip from the Premiere Pro timeline without leaving a gap.

Select the clip to be deleted. Hold down the ALT key and press the BACKSPACE key.

The clip will be deleted and everything to the right of the the deleted clip will move to fill the space. Instant ripple delete.

Beam Me Up

In keeping with the release of the new Star Trek flick, here's a tutorial from tech journalist D. Eric Franks. He demonstrates how to create the famous trek transporter effect.

Energize: Star Trek Transporter Effect from Videopia on Vimeo.

Franks hosts Videopia.org, his site devoted to "professional-quality video production for the (non-professional) masses." He was also the host of Digital Juice's TechKnow videos which are well worth watching.