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Everyone is talking about the new MacBook Air that was announced by His Jobsness yesterday at Macworld 2008 in San Francisco. I think you'll find that the majority of people's initial reactions are not glowing and positive as is the buzz with most newly announced Apple products. Yesterday was a far cry from the fan fare surrounding the iPhone announcement last year at Macworld or even all-but-forgotten Mac Mini in '05.

Hey everyone - Happy New Year!

I spent this New Years day like I spent last year - cheering on the USC Trojans to victory in the Rose Bowl! One of these days they're going to match us up with a tough opponnent - but I'm not sure when that's going to happen. There is no doubt in my mind that USC could take Ohio State or LSU the way they're playing right now. Unfortunately - a stupid loss to a bad team is going to keep them from getting that chance. Maybe they'll learn their lesson. I'm digressing...

A few weeks ago we drove up to Burbank and shot Outdoor Channel show host Michael Waddell on a green screen for Outdoor Channel Broadband (outdoorchannel.tv) and OutdoorChannel.com site tutorials.

Hey everyone -

I just finished my first tutorial here with a new site I am starting ProVideoSchool.com. Please check it out and feel free to comment. (not sure if I can do embeds here so if not, I'll post the direct links. Also, these and future video posts can be seen on my other blog site, www.paulescandon.com/blog)

http://www.paulescandon.com/blog/?p=21

http://vimeo.com/313140

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPoeSSVeKis

The tutorial is how to achieve a quick and dirty bleach bypass look using nothing but the Final Cut Pro color correction filters.

Most of you who know me are very familiar with this project that I am working on, but for those of you who don’t, here is a link..

I invested A LOT of my time into this project. I traveled to Sri Lanka with Eric Klein and James Sicignano in early 2005 to document the tsunami that happened in December 2004 - and spent countless hours, with the help of Eric Klein and Matt Bieler, cutting this trailer for a movie that we are still in the process of making.

Here is the direct page link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D__yFDBIR_4

Next weekend I’m going to be travelling to Kansas City, MO to shoot an NPPL paintball event that is going to be broadcast live over the Internet on www.nppllive.com.  This is going to be the first time that I’m going to be working an event like this and I’m looking forward to the run-and-gun shoot, edit, and deliver process that we’re going to have going.

I posted this in the forum but I thought I'd post it here too just to see if anyone knows what's going on...

"Hey everyone,

I just finished an hour show in FCP 5.1.2 in 1080i DVCPRO HD format. There are a ton of comps and layered graphics in the animation codec in the project so naturally it's taking a long time to render all these out.

I returned back home from Las Vegas and NAB on Tuesday night after spending 2 1/2 days in the City of Sin, my last few hours being spent at the wonderful Hofbräuhaus next to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino where I, along with coworkers and friends, downed their great tasting German lager out of ridiculously massive 1 liter glass steins while enjoying what I have to imagine is "classic" Bavarian folk music.

Well here are some images for those of you who aren't able to be here. I'll give my full verbal breakdown a little bit later... I'm too tired to get into it right now...

I'm amazed how quickly this new blog of mine has shown up on Google and how high the ranking is. This page is already the #2 listing for my full name "Paul Escandon" second only to my business website and actually ahead of some personal sites that I've kept for a long time. Well... not bad.

To all my fellow MAC user buddies out there, if you haven't heard Google has released the first version of their Google Desktop software for the MAC. I installed it last night and it has a pretty slick interface and is supposed to be a replacement (or competitor) for Apple's own Spotlight (which I admit to using less and less of since I started using Quicksilver).

Well here it goes, my first post on yet another new blog...

Thank you, thank you. Please stop your applause. No, seriously. Okay..