Video: 2 min recap of Ultra Natural 2013. Check out the full episode here In February, I was in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, coordinating the post production for Red Bull’s Ultra Natural event. We set up a 4 bay post facility in a hotel in Nelson; ingesting, organizing and editing footage from roughly 20 cameras. […]
Read More adobe, apple, Avid, Blackmagic, Brain Farm, cc, creative cloud, cs6, cuda, Davinci, FCP, flanders, fsi, mac pro, macbook pro, Maxx, Maxx Digital, mobile rocket, nbc, premiere pro, Red, red bull, red rocket, retina, san, small tree, ultra naturalColor Grading: Eric Hansen Adobe Premiere CS6, Davinci Resolve, Twixtor, Dolby PRM-4200 monitor, Avid Artist Color control surface You may notice frame rate issues with this video. All the action and day-of stuff was shot at 60i so it looked live. Progressive cameras such as the RED Epic and GoPro Hero 3 cameras were set […]
Read More adobe, Avid, Brain Farm, cs6, Davinci, Dolby, Epic, GoPro, nbc, Premiere, prm, red bull, red epic, resolve, travis rice, ultra naturalStrong to the Finish Teaser from BrainFarm on Vimeo. Brain Farm is excited to announce Strong to the Finish, currently in production and seeking funding via Kickstarter. Strong to the Finish follows the dramatic triumphs and heartbreaks of 40 year old Brian Hunter and his young family as he attempts a heroic test of physical […]
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Links to this TV have been floating around Twitter and my email Inbox. Here’s the link to TigerDirect. $1500 for a 50″ 4k TV! A little digging also finds that this same company, Seiki, sells a 40″ 1080p TV for $320. $320! How awesome can a $320 1080p TV look? Keep that in mind before […]
Read More 4k, 4ktv, Epic, Red, uhd, ultra hdI’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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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 […]
Read More 7.1, art of flight, Brain Farm, Dolby, flight, skywalker, travis rice, truehdRecently 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 […]
Read More 5D, Canon, ex1, glider, GoPro, half dome, hero, national park, one day, resolve, sequoia, yosemiteAdobe Premiere Pro CS6 includes a new technology called Mercury Playback Engine. The engine can use GPU processing on nVidia cards using CUDA architecture to accelerate renders. When perusing the list for compatible cards for Mac Pros, there’s only 3 cards listed. These cards are now a few years old, overpriced and are nowhere near as powerful as nVidia’s […]
Read More cuda, Davinci, ebay, GeForce, gpu, GTX285, macvidcards, nvidia, Premiere, quadro, quadro 4000, resolveSignal Snowboards’ Every Third Thursday gets caught up in the excitement of the new Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 game release by building a bona-fide bulletproof Snowboard! The build starts with an inspiration trip to Treyarch Studio to get an early Black Ops 2 game play in. The challenging board build is executed using […]
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