I’m in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada this week, coordinating the on-site post for Red Bull Ultra Natural. We built a 4 bay post facility in a hotel room, and turned around 2 cuts less than 24 hours after the event. The “Action Edit” is above. Stay tuned for a full recap on the portable SAN […]
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Wired Magazine profiles Signal Snowboards and their “Every Third Thursday” web series. Why hire a marketing team when you can buy a video camera? I joined the ETT team for Season 3 and have color corrected about half of the episodes. The last few have had such a tight turnaround – footage in by Sunday, […]
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OWC Mercury Accelsior ‘E2’ PCIe SSD Includes Two eSATA Ports (Mac Performance Guide) One of the fastest upgrades you can make for your Mac is now available with 2 eSATA ports. I love cards that combine features, such as CalDigit’s eSATA/USB3.o card, as I’m always running out of slots on my Mac Pro. But like […]
Read More 1d c, 5D, accelsior, Canon, canon 1dc, drobo, esata, owc, philip bloom, raw, SSD, time lapse, timelapseOdd Mountain Lion Crashing Bug Brings Down Nearly Any App (MacRumors) This has got to be one of the weirdest computer bugs I’ve ever seen. The initial bug report stated that typing ‘File:///’ (without the quotes) into almost any app causes the app to crash, on any Mac running any version of OSX 10.8. If you […]
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I recently purchased an iTunes season pass for Archer, one of the funniest shows currently on TV, and one of the only shows I’ll buy season passes for. I get most of my content from Netflix and Hulu, and I have no problem waiting a few months for some shows to become available. But I […]
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Blackmagic Hyperdeck Shuttle Review: Review – Oliver Peters, DV/Creative Planet/digitalfilms.com Matrox MXO2 Mini MAX Offered at a New Low Price of $599 (press release) I’ve been a fan of the MXO2 Mini MAX for years now. I use it for all my H.264 encodes and take it into the field pretty often. Recently, Matrox released a […]
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The Art of Flight Panel from Dolby Laboratories on Vimeo. On Tuesday, November 1, 2011, Dolby Laboratories, Red Bull Media House and Brain Farm Digital Cinema hosted a media screening of the The Art of FLIGHT, exclusively in Dolby Surround 7.1. The filmmakers were also on hand to talk about the cutting edge innovations used […]
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Building a CustoMac: Buyer’s Guide January 2013 (tonymacx86) Tonymacx86 is THE place for info about building Hackintoshes. Every month they put together a Buyer’s Guide with links to the most current parts and prices, broken out by computer type and budget. This is a road I still have not traveled down, as I’m perfectly happy […]
Read More hackintosh, tonymac, tonymacx86Recently I got to work with “Yosemite Steve” Bumgardner on an episode of his series, Yosemite Nature Notes. He did a “One Day” project with 30 different filmmakers spread all over the park. It resulted in a large mix of cameras, formats, white balance settings, etc. Steve edited the piece in Premiere Pro from the […]
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4K in the Home (ProLost) As usual, Stu hits it on the head. 4k in the home is pointless. But he does bring up projection, where higher resolutions that 1080 could make a difference. But of course, the content currently isn’t there. It reminds me, back in the SD days, when TVs and projectors weren’t actually 480 […]
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