UPDATED 12/31/2011 – 16TB UNIT SOLD. As many of you know we’ve recently upgraded our main SAN to a 48TB Small Tree ST RAID II thus freeing up some of our older units. Obviously, these have been very well cared for in a Post Production machine room environment and have performed excellently for us in [...]
By now you’ve heard that Wes Plate has joined the Adobe Product Marketing Team. For those who might not know exactly who this guy is, he’s been “the guy” in the industry for years who has made various production tools talk to each other. And not just a simple, “move parts of my projects into [...]
There a great new article on Post Magazine’s website which you should read in its entirety. There’s some interesting statements in there about Apple’s thinking as they released and are now updating the software. Here are some of my takeaways from the article: Apple, for its part, wants it known that they are interested in [...]
CreativeCow.net has published my latest article about where the Post Production industry stands today. It’s been a few months since the Final Cut Pro 10 roll-out and we now have 1 update from Apple. So where are we today? Did Everything Change In Post? – a new article from CreativeCow.
A few months ago, I became a member of the Board of Directors for an incredible animal rescue group, Pilots N Paws. The group facilitates animal rescue flights from pretty much anywhere to pretty much anywhere in the United States for animals who need a good loving home. Yesterday Pilots N Paws staged their annual [...]
Well, I got burned by a very large “gotcha” when exporting a project for color grading in Apple Color. The project was a 10 minute story for a broadcast series, all shot P2, 1080i / 29.97. I edited in an AJA 1080i / 29.97 timeline with all the native material. At the end of the [...]
At the urging of a friend, I got back to work on these Transitioning videos as he is now jumping into the Adobe Premiere Pro application. As I’ve noted in my blogs, for the Final Cut Pro editor migrating over to Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5, the transition really could not be much easier. I [...]
UPDATED WITH ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE BOTTOM! UPDATE 2 – New Photo showing relative size of the panel at the very bottom. Thanks to Tangent Designs for letting me introduce this to you guys. I saw the prototype at NAB this past April as of today, Tangent introduces the new Element Control Surface. As [...]
I’ve run into this issue so many times, practically on a weekly basis, so once and for all, 1080i / 60i is NOT 60fps. That is 60 frames per second. Never was, never will be, it’s just not going to happen. Let’s take a look shall we? First off, the “i” in the number. [...]
By now most of you have heard that Apple has re-introduced Final Cut Studio 3 for sale after a lukewarm reception to Final Cut Pro X. Well, they sort of have re-introduced it. As stated in this MacRumors article, you must call the order directly in to Apple. It is not available through any standard [...]