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 […]
Read More 4k, Brain Farm, brian hunter, Davinci, Dolby, Epic, kickstarter, mongolia, orphans, prm, Red, resolve, strong to the finish, sttfAfter 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, resolveAdobe 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, resolveResolve 9.1 released: What’s new in DaVinci Resolve 9.1 • Mac OS X Retina support for MacBook Pro • Support for FCPX Audition in XML • Improved mixed frame rate XML support • Includes CinemaDNG Input Device Transform (IDT) for grading Raw images in ACES • Playback and render support for DNxHD 100 • Playback […]
Read More apple, appletv, Davinci, facebook, imac, matrox, oled, resolve, skype, voipI’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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Here’s a list of what’s new at NAB 2012 and links to articles, product pages, press releases, etc. I will be updating this as often as I can. The 3G here in Vegas is awful. 1 Beyond Wrangler LTO-5 NetDrive This is an interesting little contraption. 1 Beyond has combined an LTO-5 deck with ethernet […]
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