Color Grading: Eric Hansen Editing: Tate MacDowell
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Color Grading: Patagonia – Layering for Backcountry Snowboarding with Josh Dirksen
This is the first in a series of spots I color corrected for Patagonia for their new Fall and Winter 2012 line. Edited by Tate MacDowell of Death Cookie Entertainment
Read MoreAmazon Glacier – The New Vault for Film Producers?
Amazon today announced Glacier, “an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup”. The most attractive aspect is their low fee of $.01 per GB per month. If you don’t need instant access to your archive, this could be a great alternative to maintaining archives yourself. This led […]
Read MoreioSafe Solo G3 – A False Sense of Security
My sister-in-law has recently picked up photography (and she’s awesome!), so my brother has been asking me about a backup and archive system for her photos. I’ve been piecing some options together specific to her business as a photographer, which will become a series of posts here on the blog. During this process, he sent […]
Read MoreBlackmagic Design Acquires Assets of Cintel International
Blackmagic Design is on a roll! A brief history: – BMD acquires DaVinci, turns $250k DaVinci 2k system into $999 DaVinci Resolve for Mac and $30k Resolve for Linux – BMD acquires Teranex, drops price from $80k to $20k. Then releases redesigned models for $2k and $4k including 3D and Thunderbolt support – BMD acquires Cintel and… turns the […]
Read MoreConsultations
Apple’s non-update of the Mac Pro has really thrown a lot of people for a loop, and the emails and phone calls have started pouring in. Should I upgrade? Should I buy used? If I do, what should I buy? Should I switch to Windows? What about a Hackintosh? How about Consulting from EricHansen.tv? I […]
Read MoreQuick Production Tip – Save Your Ticket Numbers for Airline Miles
When you get airline tickets for a trip, jot down the ticket number. You can then use this to get miles for the trip if it wasn’t booked with your Frequent Flier number. On most production trips, I don’t book my travel. The producer or their assistant does. Usually I’ll give them my frequent flier […]
Read MoreMacBook Pro with Retina Display and “new” Mac Pro – My Thoughts
Today was a great day for the Mac, ahem, Apple faithful. I readied Chrome with 6 different tabs: Macrumors.com, Ars, Tweetdeck, etc; and waited for the updates from Tim Cook’s WWDC keynote to start streaming in. Personally, I don’t give a hoot about iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion (only 1 of my 5 […]
Read MoreGasp! Could it be true? New Mac Pros?
The rumor mill went into overdrive yesterday as stock of Mac Pros started being pulled from Apple Stores, and new part numbers started to appear. It looks like Apple could be announcing new Mac models for the majority of their line at the upcoming WWDC, which starts Monday June 11th with a keynote by Apple […]
Read MoreSocial Media Blackout
You never realize how dependent you are on something until you can’t have it anymore. Sorry for the lack of updates on the site, but I’m currently out of the country working as a DIT on a production that’s enforcing a social media black out. For people in the production industry, this happens pretty often. […]
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