As of today, it’s been 645 days since Apple last updated the Mac Pro. This means if you buy a NEW Mac Pro right now, you’ll be buying hardware that’s almost 2 years old. I just bought a Mac Pro. It arrives on Friday. It’s roughly 750 days old. That’s right, I bought a used [...]
Read MoreOne thing became very clear to me at NAB this year, we no longer can or should base our entire careers around a single app or platform. “I’m a Final Cut Editor” Not anymore. I’ve been editing on non-linear systems for about 15 years. I started on Avid in 1998 and switched to Final Cut [...]
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With Atmos, Dolby has reinvented surround sound production, exhibition and distribution. But it’s taken me 6 months to finally “get it”. Back in November, Dolby flew me and members of the Brain Farm team out to San Francisco for a special screening of the Art of Flight in Dolby’s reference theater. This theater is basically Dolby’s cinema laboratory. [...]
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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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Back in May I wrote a post questioning the value of physical media when digital media is so accessible. In the last few months, I’ve experienced a few things that might answer the question. Movies. I’ve spent the last 2 years working on a film called The Art of Flight. I’ve mentioned it a few [...]
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In case you’re wondering where I’ve been all summer, check out this teaser. At Brain Farm, we’re all buried in post getting this movie done. I did the color correction on this teaser. Look for The Art of FLIGHT on DVD, Blu-Ray and iTunes Extras download on Sept 8th. For you post production geeks, the [...]
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As you probably know, I live in a very small town, with limited resources, in the middle of nowhere. When I first moved here, I could get my film processed at quite a few locations, many offering B&W and slide processing in addition to negative and all the regular services. Their prices were the same [...]
Read More Canon, film, hobby, homebrew, homebrewing, nikon, pay its way, photography, Sony, Super 8, too expensiveI’d like to address a few things that I think get forgotten, especially as the fog clears after NAB. Sony announced the F65, an 8k camera with a Super 35mm-sized sensor. For those keeping score, Sony has confused us even more by naming their new camera F65 because it has 65mm film equivalent resolution (but [...]
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So the rumored Final Cut Pro X has been announced. Like everyone else, I have more questions than Apple gave answers. The additions are pretty slick. I personally am a huge fan of long awaited additions like a true open timeline (but this has been a “feature” since FCP4, so is it really open?) and [...]
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This is a question I get asked a lot. Over the past few years I’ve taught classes on filmmaking to high school and college students, and I was also in charge of hiring interns for different action sports production companies. Many want to know what I did to get into filmmaking, and what they can [...]
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