Career Advice for the Young DP

This is my response to a question posted to the Cinematography Mailing List by a young film student who is chafing at the bit to be a director of photography as soon as possible.

New Media Webinars offers fast, affordable training

When I finished my NAB 2009 Post Pit presentation I was approached by a gentlemen who operated a website called New Media Webinars. We discussed possibly doing a webinar similar to what my Post Pit presentation about cutting a Canon 5D multi-camera concert. After a lengthy discussion upon returning from NAB we decided on the topic of DSLR Filmmaking Post  Workflows. This was my first presentation for NewMediaWebinars.com. New Media Webinars would end up with four DSLR focused webinars (thus far) on production, post, color grading and audio techniques.

Pro Apps PDFs!

The PDF link downloads a copy of the docs to disk.

OK, so maybe I’m stupid (no comments, thanks very much) and these have always been available, or maybe they’re new: Apple has PDF user manuals for Pro Apps available for download.

Phantom Adventures: 1000fps on a Budget

A while back I wrote this article about some high speed tests I did in preparation for an upcoming regional spot. The results convinced the client, Rambus, that the extra expense of shooting their upcoming spots at 1000fps was well worth it.

Avid and RED team up for a RED workflow webinar

It looks like Avid and RED are teaming up for a webinar. The date is Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 11:00 am pacific and it looks to be free. The folks presenting are notable and make this event worth watching. From RED there is scheduled to be Ted Schilowitz and Deanan DaSilva. Ted is known to all RED watchers as true face of the company. He’s the guy you see at all the industry events and trade shows evangelizing their technology, often with a prototype camera in tow. Deenan is one of the regular contributors over at Reduser and if you’ve read any of his posts he certainly knows his RED.

Hands-on with the Panasonic AG-3DA1 S3D Camcorder

Last weekend I attended the two-day Createasphere 3D Production Workshop Utilizing Panasonic AG-3DA1 Cameras in Burbank, and got a good overview of the issues in shooting stereo 3D (S3D) content, as well as some immensely instructive hands-on experience with the AG-3DA1 S3D camcorder.

You can reframe your R3Ds in Redcine-X

When you’re working with high resolution RED media in a high-definition world then one of the advantages of the original 4K image is the ability to reframe shots in post due to the different sizes of the acquired image. You can quite literally create entirely new shots without any softening of the image since the resolution is there. It can be accomplished in RED’s free software Redcine-X though I have to admit it took me a bit of time to figure out how to do it.

Master Multicamera Techniques is a must have book for editors

Quite a few months ago I had a long conversation with editor Mitch Jacobson about multicam editing. The point of this conversation was to, hopefully, provide some good information on multicam editing for what was then his upcoming book about the topic. That book has finally gone into print and I picked up a copy not long ago and began reading it. Besides the much appreciated contributing writer credit that Mitch gave me (and a lot of other people who helped pull the book together) the book is a treasure chest of all things multicam.

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