Basics are here. Detailed look is here. For people with Sony/Canon cameras, a biggish deal is easy import of MTS files.

There are 34 more on BuzzFeed.

Kotaku has a post on a Japanese stop motion that is really a one-man show — Takahide Hori made it all. And filmed it. And edited it. Especially amazing are the sets. Film is at the bottom of the article. First discussion thread is interesting as folks go back and forth about the problem of sweating the details in titles.

If your video camera (Canon, I’m looking at you here) produces MTS files, try this workflow and tell me if it doesn’t work.

Can you out-dry Pencil Man? He’s stealing your moves.

New Yorker article. Etsy article.

Interesting behind-the-scenes article on how Fox produces an NFL game.

Less techie video version:

Form is here for collecting your ideas for your montage.

Three hours and twenty minutes of cinematic greatness. In everybody’s Top Ten of all time. Wikipedia:

…among the first films to use the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Ocean’s Eleven, The Dirty Dozen, Sholay, the western remake The Magnificent Seven, and Pixar’s animated film A Bug’s Life.^[8]

Also the grandfather of lots of anime as well as several films that we’ll using later this year (and, of course, Ghost Dog). We’ll be watching it in chunks over a month or so.

The film is very slow paced, especially at the beginning. Japanese culture is much more oriented to savoring the passage of time than we are — a tea ceremony, for example, can take four hours. Stay awake.

Hai!
はい。

YouTube has updated Capture to include editing/trimming/rearranging multiple clips in iOS. Small review is here on The Verge.  I’d be interested if anyone tries this out.

iOS link is here.