Cine Gear Expo 2008 – Day 1
Cine Gear Expo on the Universal back lot. We came down to LA for Cine Gear Expo, a two-day...
Maelstrom – Production (part 2)
Sunflowers: two VistaBeam 600s fill the shadows. Day 4 – We have a...
Maelstrom – Production (part 1)
Still life with water bottle: An EX1 sports a DvRig Junior; Alan Hereford’s homebrew DvRig is at the bottom...
It’s not the budget, it’s where you put the camera!
Equipment doesn’t make the image; people do. I proved this on a music video recently where we had more...
Compression Artifacts & Pulldown
This started as a quick post about how to gain finer control over the compression settings in the QuickTime...
New MacBook Pros Tomorrow? (UPDATED)
Update: Well, no new Mac offerings outside Me.com (which looks to be pretty cool), and of course the 3G...
Photoshop Disasters
One of my favorite sites that I like to check out on a regular basis is Photoshop Disasters. The...
Cool Video Prodution Widgets for Your iPhone or Laptop *UPDATED*
Monday, June 02, 2008I often find I have too much information to remember (and for some reason people expect...
Maelstrom – Preproduction
About a week ago, Tim Blackmore and I learned that we were providing tech support for Rob Nilsson’s upcoming...
A Distorted View of the World
One of my vices is auto racing; I love to watch it. Which, of course, means that Speed TV...