Color Grading and Finishing
Featuring Davinci Resolve, Apple Color, Magic Bullet Looks, Redcine-X Pro and numerous plug-ins and filters, The Studio can handle anything from commercials to shorts to feature films at a competitive price.
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Designing storage and networks that fit your needs. Ethernet, SAS, Fibre and even Thunderbolt. From 2 computers to 200, 2TB to 2 Petabytes, with digital asset management systems and archiving that don’t require a degree in quantum mechanics.
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Cameras, codecs, editing software, GPUs, SSDs, RAIDs, networking, transcoding, color management, sharing, finishing, delivery, archiving; the technologies and options are changing everyday. Eric can help you navigate the ever changing landscape.
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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, [...]
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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 MoreA 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 [...]
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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 MoreAfter 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 [...]
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I’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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