A lot of folks have been asking me about this and a recent post on Twitter reminded me to go ahead and update you folks on some of what we plan to have in the new facility. Well first off, still running Apple’s Final Cut Pro. At the moment it still serves our needs however …
We got the opportunity to play with a brand new Panasonic AG-HPX370 HD camera. This camera features the incredible AVC-Intra codec and the price is only around $10,000 with the lens! It’s essentially the baby brother of the Varicam, shooting on 1/3″ chips instead of 2/3″. Fujinon sent us a beautiful wide angle lens to …
After a fun day shooting out in a cornfield with old tractors, we stopped by the shop and found that the siding is done! Standing in the garage door opening looking across the building left to right, that’s the front door on the right. Roof is completed, siding is all in up in the front. …
Wooooooooo, this is what I was talking about the other day when I said they had some neat things coming from FSI very shortly. You can now control your FSI monitors using an iPad or iPhone! “What do you mean control?” you say? I mean every single button, knob and menu can be controlled using …
I’ve said it before, but gotta say it again, just LOVE the team that’s working with me these days. It’s like a sports team, it’s all about chemistry. The three core members of the team just click and I hear laughter all day long in the shop. That’s a wonderful thing. We work …
Another two day update. The MBA crew continued with the siding and the roof on the building. We’re very closed to have a closed in building. AUGUST 23 You can see the back of the building is completely sided, the scaffolding in the foreground is for the workers to get up to put the roof …
Visited the FSI offices on Friday (they’re only 15 minutes from my office) where they showed me some new tools they will be implementing very shortly. Can’t quite tell you what they are yet until they make the official announcements, but they’re added convenience for the end user. That’s what I love about these guys. …
Here’s a two day update and in fact I need to stop by in the morning to get a few more photos of where they ended up today. Storms rolled in tonight and then I had a dinner engagements. But the building is moving along at a steady clip thanks to the guys from Metal …
The steel framing is really coming along and Rebecca got her first look at the new facility. Workers from the Metal Building Associates team installing some of the steel sides. Main beams front to back are in place and the roof spars and being joined up. Worker joining up the roof spars. I’m on the …
Well today was the day we’ve been waiting for! The steel has started going up. We can actually see a real building on the site. No more envisioning it, it’s real now! At 7am the steel was a big pile. By the time I got there at 11:30am, they already had outer skeleton standing! Jenny, …
All of a sudden we’re creating a whole lotta BluRay discs these days. NTSC and PAL for screenings all over the world. Sounds like many film festivals are now accepting BluRay discs as a playback format and of course, it’s a lot cheaper to do one of these than an HDCAM tape. So we’re in …
Today was a very big step forward in the construction of our new facility. For the first time, we’re building up, rather than tearing down! It all started before dawn with a big concrete pump truck and ended with the delivery of our building! 5:30AM Metal Building Associates have already poured almost half of the …