 David Lawrence is a designer, producer, researcher, and media artist with over 25 years of expertise in all aspects of digital and interactive media. His early work in the 1980s at Lucasfilm Ltd. includes groundbreaking research, design and productio... [ more] David Lawrence is a designer, producer, researcher, and media artist with over 25 years of expertise in all aspects of digital and interactive media. His early work in the 1980s at Lucasfilm Ltd. includes groundbreaking research, design and production on innovative projects that bootstrapped the interactive multimedia industry and led to the creation of breakthrough tools such as non-linear digital video editing. Partners included the National Geographic Society, the National Audubon Society, and Apple. Later projects include award-winning radio documentary, laserdiscs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and a nationally acclaimed, transmedia publishing venture. He is a founding member of Stretcher, a collective of San Francisco Bay Area artists and art critics who have published the online art magazine Stretcher since 2001. He currently works as a producer, media consultant and videographer and is an associate and co-founder of Public Matters, a multidisciplinary project team with expertise in public art, education, new media, community building, capacity building, and leadership development. | | | | Member Since: July 25th 2005 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | | |
Friends:  Aindreas Gallagher  Alex Hawkins  Chris Harlan  David Battistella  David Roth Weiss  Franz Bieberkopf  Herb Sevush  Oliver Peters  Walter Soyka | | | | |  | SCRI: Avid Ex CEO Now Resigns As Directorby Craig Seeman 3 days agoAvid Ex CEO Now Resigns As Director http: scri.com avid-ex-ceo-now-resigns-as-director Avid has reported via a Form-8K filing with the SEC that ex Chairman and CEO, Gary Greenfield has now also resign | | | | |
| | | |  | The Cloud: An Opposing Viewby Michael Hendrix 1 day agoAs I have been reading through this forum, I almost feel like the title should be changed to Adobe Creative Cloud: The Vent. That's okay because most do feel the need to vent instead of debate. So in +3 | Re: The Cloud: An Opposing View
by David Lawrence 21 hours ago
Aindreas Gallagher "The thing is - i didn't actually need to utterly trust and neurotically understand the company before this: - I just bought the bloody software." This. ^ Excellent post, Aindreas.
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| | | | | It was fun while it lastedby Todd Stowe 2 days agoI teach computer graphics at the high school level. I started with a small lab of 10 computers running Photoshop 5.0 back in 1998. I now have over 20 machines with a half dozen scanners, Wacom tablets | Re: It was fun while it lasted
by Dave LaRonde 1 day ago
Andy Field "...so to recap - text book prices - ok - Software not." Todd Stowe "What are you smoking We don't get new textbooks every year. More like every five to ten years..." Amen to that, brother
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| | | | | Adobe Creative Cloud Terms of Useby David Lawrence 2 weeks agoLloyd Chambers is pro photographer, Mac developer, and expert in high-end Macintosh performance optimization. I've been reading his blog for years and have learned much from his online guides. I was c+3 | Re: The Creative Cloud Divide
by David Lawrence 2 weeks ago
Walter Soyka "At some point, you have to do the work now to prepare for the future. They couldn't make awesome new CS7 CS8 CS9 releases while simultaneously developing an awesome CC in secret and unl
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| | | |  | Cloud drawbacks as I see them.by Tom Daigon 2 months agoBesides technical issues that might make the necessary web connection for the monthly check by Adobe impossible (dead modem - down ISP or cable), the biggest drawback I see is this. When I purchased t+1 | Re: Cloud drawbacks as I see them.
by David Lawrence 1 month ago
Tom Daigon "David, just a quick aside. It must have been quite an experience working at Lucasfilm when you did." It's not often you get told your job is "to invent the future". For me, even crazier w
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| | | |  | Cloud question (adobe screwing us?)by Richard Cardonna 2 months agoWil cloud users have special unique features that will not be available to CS7 production premium app owners I ask because of this: Note: With the exception of Retina display support, the new features | | | | |
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| | | | | Article: Premiere Pro CS 6.0: First Impressionsby David Lawrence 1 year ago Adobe Premiere Pro Premiere Pro CS 6.0: First Impressions As a long-time Final Cut Pro user, David Lawrence has been looking for a new NLE, since FCPX isn't an option for his editing style and needs.+5 | @Ian Liuzzi-Fedun
by David Lawrence 1 year ago
Well, I'm a bit out of my league here so maybe someone with deeper knowledge can chime in, But yes, that's how I understand it. I don't know where things are at with the transition to A V foundation i
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| | | | | Some FCP X Qsby Oliver Peters 2 years agoSome questions and some observations from an FCP X job yesterday. A few of these are subjective and I haven't had a chance to thoroughly test them, but I'm curious if others have seen these issues or | Re: Some FCP X Qs
by David Lawrence 2 years ago
Oliver Peters "Shoot! You're right. I typed in a duration of 2 and didn't actually check. Now I see that you can't make the crossfade (dissolve) shorter than 3 frames. That's what the result is even
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| | | |  | Blog: Back into the fire.by gary adcock 2 years agoHey, Yeah, me again. There is alot happening in the industry right now, here is an interview with MacVideo's Rick Young that I did at IBC. My thanks to Dean Cleary on Bcam and AJA for allowing us to s+1 | Re: Blog: Back into the fire.
by David Lawrence 2 years ago
Aindreas Gallagher "I'm not personally saying I'm jilted, rather maybe that my girlfriend had a jeff goldblum end of the fly style transformation, he said... not at all over the top. I'm geena davis,
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| | | |  | Lost my work, arrrrrrrggggghhhh.by Mark Morache 2 years ago3-4 hours into an edit, my firewire cable wiggled out and my project went offline. Usually this is no problem. I re-mount the drive, restart FCX and everything is good. This time, the app didn't open. | | | | |
| | | | | Roles: got 'em to work.by Mark Morache 2 years agoAlright, I think I get it. Select clips -- assign role. I can use the minimize button to shrink the tracks that I've already assigned, and then assign (or re-assign) the remaining tracks. Makes sense. | Re: Roles: got 'em to work.
by David Lawrence 2 years ago
Craig Seeman "Import folder as keyword collections (bins) or create empty keyword collections and drop the clips in and they're keyworded. JKL and use Markers with comments as part of the marker name
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| | | |  | My Life in FCPby Rob Tinworth 2 years agoI've been lucky to work on some great projects over the last decade with FCP. So when MC5.5 arrived in the post, I figured what better way to get back up to speed on Avid than to cut a retrospective o+8 | Re: My Life in FCP
by David Lawrence 2 years ago
Jeremy Garchow "For me, I find FCPx's organization (keywords et al) to be what I always wanted it to be but I guess I'm weird." I don't think you're weird at all! All those new organizational feature
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| | | | | Service: David Lawrenceby David Lawrence 2 years agoSan Francisco California, United States Post Production Production David Lawrence Post Production Editing Multimedia Production Studio David Lawrence is a designer, | | | | |
| | | | | HV20 capture problems in FCP S2by David Lawrence 6 years agoI'm new to the HV20 24p format and am having 2 capture issues with FCP studio2. One is dropped frames in log and capture. The other is that I can't hear audio I'm in log and capture mode (audio is fin | | | | |
| | | | | motion menu rendering questionby David Lawrence 6 years agoHello, I have a short video loop I want to use for a simple motion menu. I've pre-composited the menu buttons in FCP and have encoded a .m2v file with BitVice. I've imported the .m2v into my DVDSP pro | | | | |
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