We’ve been backlogged on FreshDV Podcasts for some time, so here’s one that’s been in the queue, just in time for your Thanksgiving travels.

Here is a 35-minute interview with Stephen Hens, Creative Director of Santa Monica-based Chophouse Edit, about their RED workflow in Final Cut Studio on a PSA project with actor Pierce Brosnan. Stephen and I discuss in-depth how they approached the project from a pre-production and post-production perspective. It’s a really interesting discussion, and we hope you enjoy it, and perhaps learn something along the way.

Download the audio podcast via the link above, or through our iTunes feed. You can find out more about Chophouse Edit at www.chophouseedit.com.

I often use a $299 Samson Zoom H4n when recording sync sound (for DSLR video or otherwise), but one complaint is that it eats batteries for lunch. I rarely get more than a few hours out of it. Which is why I was very interested to hear about a new PCM audio recorder on Engadget…this Beseto recorder runs a whole week on AA’s!

180-degree shutter angle. It’s a rule of filmmaking. Don’t break it, unless you know what you are doing. And these guys shooting a commercial for Subaru know exactly what they are doing…

The FCP nerds are fighting with the Avid geeks again. We should probably separate them before someone gets a grass stain on their shirt.

If you aren’t too busy working with either system to care, you can read the pros and cons from either side here and here. Absent from this NLE point-counterpoint blog war is the dark horse that is Adobe Premiere CS5, which is seriously kicking ass lately. Enough ass stomping power that I’m personally considering using it on a few projects in leu of FCP…