iPhone Apps for Cinematographers
So I’m a self proclaimed Apple fan boy like all good geeks. Here are a few of the apps...
Snow Leopard: Hopes, Misunderstandings, and Gotchas
Snow Leopard (aka OS 10.6) looks like a great system update for Mac users: better performance, smaller hard drive...
Avid Gems 11
So, it’s been a while since I’ve started writing this series, so I should probably point out that the...
Video storage space calculators round-up
It’s one of the questions I get asked more often than most: How much drive space do I need...
Inspiration from the anti-Google
More and more production professionals are living in a kind of social vacuum as production and post moves from...
Enlightening interview about distribution with Maverick Entertainment founder and president
I was catching up on podcasts recently and I got to the July 16 episode of Filmmaking Central. On...
Canon HV40: a great inexpensive feeder deck for native Sony 3G HDV recordings
Users of Sony’s professional 3G HDV camcorders (including the HVR-S270, HVR-Z5, and HVR-Z7) and editors who receive footage from...
RED Build 20 Torture Tests
I’ve learned more about how cameras work by learning what the RED doesn’t do. But, with every software build,...
Busy Person’s Guide to Color Correcting the Canon 5D
The 5D is fast and portable, but it’s not a professional camera–so know going in that you’re going to...
Stop Motion Redux
If you haven’t noticed, stop motion animation is hip right now (see previous posts by Richard Harrington and Matt...
