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 […]
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There’s been surprisingly few detailed rumors about a new Mac Pro compared to Apple’s other products. Over the past few years there’s been speculation about a Mac Mini Pro or xMac, which is basically a beefy Mac Mini with a user-replaceable GPU and not much else. I would post a link, but there’s as many descriptions […]
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One of the things that lured me to Creative Cloud was the initial pricing: $30/mo for one year when upgrading from an existing Creative Suite product. So I jumped on it. My thought at the time, and I still think this, is that so many people will complain about the eventual $50/mo pricing, that Adobe will lower […]
Read More adobe, cc, cloud, creative cloud, creative suite, cs, cs6, subscriptionA lot has been made recently of Adobe’s announcement that all their software will be switching to Creative Cloud subscriptions, abandoning the software-in-a-box model. Even Hitler has weighed in. I’ve been using Creative Cloud personally for over 6 months, and most of my clients have made the switch, so I thought I would throw my […]
Read More adobe, apple, cc, cloud, creative cloud, cs, cs5.5, cs6, subscriptionAfter seeing Instagram pictures of me grading, a lot of readers have been asking about my personal Resolve setup. Well, I’m in the middle of redesigning my living room so I can put most of my equipment in a closet, out of view. So no pictures. But here is the configuration “on paper” if you […]
Read More adobe, after effects, Blackmagic, caldigit, creative cloud, cyberpower, Davinci, euphonix, gtx570, guardian maximus, mac pro, macvidcards, owc, Premiere, resolveI’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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Five Best Living Room Speaker Sets (Life Hacker) Life Hacker asked their readers for the best living room speakers. They admit that they couldn’t have asked a more wide ranging question, but the 5 selected are an interesting bunch. As a post guy, I’ve gotten really used to having studio monitors as my main sound […]
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The new version of Glue Tools PhantomCine Toolkit, in this case, 3.1.2693, has Open CL GPU acceleration. Since converting Phantom Cine files to ProRes is a daily occurrence at Brain Farm, I thought I would do some speed tests. I got some interesting results. Source Clip: Phantom Flex, 2560×1440, 49 seconds Test System: Mac Pro 4.1, 8×2.23GHz, […]
Read More adobe, cine, compressor, cs6, cuda, glue tools, gpu, gtx570, media encoder, nvidia, open cl, Phantom, PremiereI’ve installed or recommended nVidia GPU cards for clients and friends for quite awhile now. Personally, I’m rocking a GTX570 in my Mac Pro for Premiere Pro and Resolve. I also have a GT120 installed as the second card for when I use Resolve. Most of the time my monitors are connected to the GTX570. […]
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