On-Site Post at Red Bull Ultra Natural

Posted by Eric Hansen - August 19, 2013 - Apple, SANs and Post Production, Color Grading, News, SAN Installations

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. […]

Color Grading: Red Bull Ultra Natural: Full Episode

Posted by Eric Hansen - August 18, 2013 - Color Grading, News, Production

Color 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 […]

Creative Cloud: A Look at Pricing

Posted by Eric Hansen - May 12, 2013 - Apple, SANs and Post Production, Musings, News, Production

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 […]

Adobe Creative Cloud Pros and Cons

Posted by Eric Hansen - May 11, 2013 - Apple, SANs and Post Production, Musings, News, Production

A 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 […]

Glue Tools PhantomCine GPU Speed Tests

Posted by Eric Hansen - January 21, 2013 - Apple, SANs and Post Production, Featured, Reviews / Tests

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, […]