I spent the weekend over at TGR to give their Xsan system its semi-annual cleaning. Us IT guys gotta work weekends while you office people are out playing. A little disc defragging here, a little blast of air there. The biggest step is removing all the components from the Xserve RAIDs and rolling the […]
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12″ Powerbook G4 Optical Drive = PITA!
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Apple, SANs and Post Production, News
Well, this turned out to be the most ridiculous take-apart I’ve done yet. To replace a broken optical drive in a 12″ Powerbook G4, you have to remove EVERYTHING. Unlike Apple’s other Aluminum notebooks which are very compartmentalized, the 12″ Powerbook is layered like a sandwich and the optical drive is on the bottom. The picture is from right before […]
Read MoreSuper 8 Wedding on the Pacific
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News, Super 8 Transfers
I just got back from the Oregon coast where I was shooting a friend’s wedding on Super 8. I shot 10 rolls: some B&W, some 64T reversal and a bunch of Kodak’s new Vision3 500T. Depending on how the 500T turns out, I could see dropping the 64T reversal in favor of using the faster […]
Read MoreBlu-Ray? Sure, why not?
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Apple, SANs and Post Production, News
I got a copy of “That’s It, That’s All” on blu-ray a few weeks back. I thought it would probably be a good idea to get a player so I could actually watch it. I was also reading about how Toast 10 could burn up to 30min of blu-ray video to DVD-R, and that places […]
Read MoreDestination Extreme – National Geographic
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Apple, SANs and Post Production, Color Grading, News
I’ve been color correcting episodes of Destination Extreme for Wink Inc Productions, which will air on National Geographic in a few weeks. I just heard that the first 4 shows passed QC, which is awesome and takes a bit of the pressure off on the remaining episodes. For this series, I’m using Apple Color almost […]
Read MoreWings of Thunder
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Color Grading, News
A month ago, I color corrected a Super 16mm film for Jeff Hogan Films called “Wings of Thunder” for the Bear River Wildlife Refuge in Utah. It was very cool to be working on a film project again. The source tapes were HDCAM SR 422, which made the color correction much easier. It took quite […]
Read MoreQuick News…
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News
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a news update. When working with film, it’s hard to post quick updates because I’m always waiting for the film to comeback from the processor, then I have to scan/telecine everything, then I have to color correct. Oh well. You get the idea. I always forget to take digital […]
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