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Matthew Jeppsen
Matthew Jeppsen is the founder of FreshDV and a digital video shooter and editor. By most reports he is powered entirely by coffee. 
Kendal MillerKendal Miller has over 10 years experience in the production industry. Currently he is working as Director of Photography in Chicago, IL where he resides with his wife Kendra. He works on a wide variety of projects ranging from commercial to independent film projects, working on one of the first commercial Red projects in the midwest area. When he's not shooting film or video he enjoys still photography as a hobby. An original part of the FreshDV team and contributing author to such magazines as DV and others Kendal enjoys providing industry training and education for others, and feels he often learns through the writing process as well. 
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NAB 2009 Video - CoreMeltCoreMelt Complete V2 and ImageFlow for Video CoreMelt recently released their CoreMelt Complete V2 plugin package for editors, and they were showing it off at NAB. They also are offering their ImageFlow package for quick and painless photo (and now video) montage creation. Beautiful Compositing Reel from CoralineVFX work on the acclaimed stop-motion film
Compositor and VFX artist Adam Sager has posted his personal reel from the work he did for the 3D stop-motion film “Coraline.” It’s a beautiful collection of clips that show the before and after comparisons. Anyone with an interest in compositing and the VFX arts should really dig the video embedded below. more »Free Deshaker plugin for Virtualdub fixes shakes, CMOS wobbleSadly for Mac users, Virtualdub is Windows only Virtualdub is the free swiss-army-knife utility for Windows users that offers tons of features and plugins. One of the latest plugins for the app is Deshaker, an image stabilization filter that also offers controls to deal with common CMOS rolling shutter artifacts. There’s a great review of the plugin over at Outside Hollywood, and I highly recommend that you read the FAQ/notes at the plugin author’s website. CMOS camera shooters, pay attention to the “Camcorder has a rolling shutter” section on how to best configure settings. As a Mac user, I’m sad to note that Virtualdub is Windows only. How to Edit Canon 5D Footage in FCPUsing freeware tools to prep Mark II HD footage for FCP
Canon’s new 5D Mark II DSLR with 1080p video mojo has been showing up in the hands of new users for the past few days, and the footage is hitting Vimeo faster than you can say “What’s a Scarlet?” One of the most pressing questions by Mac users is how to edit the compressed HD footage, which is captured as Quicktime H.264 files at 38.6 Mbits/sec. Reports suggest that FCP can edit the footage natively, but playback is likely to be choppy. That being the case, FCP users are recommending transcoding the footage into ProRes 422, for realtime playback and editing. ProRes is several times the bitrate of the MPEG-4 source files, but it should solve the playback issues. An alert reader dropped me a Tweet this evening however, and he’s got a great workflow idea for those that can’t justify the additional disk space that ProRes transcoding requires. His workflow uses the free cross-platform MPEG Streamclip app to transcode the source files into the 35 Mbits/sec XDCAM EX codec, which can then be played back and edited in realtime in FCP. A tutorial video is embedded below… more »
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