VFX
NAB Roundup 2013 – Forget 3D, Let’s Talk 4K!
Emerging Patterns Every year, if I’m able to do so, I make the 4-hour trek by car from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to attend the National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB). For the uninitiated, it’s a trade show where all the manufacturers of every piece of gear involving broadcast, filmmaking, production, postproduction, you-name-it fill […]
Post-Mortem: Two Years After the Fall of FCP
What A Difference Two Years Hasn’t Made It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost two years since the stalwart Final Cut Pro shat the bed and drove countless editors into the hinterlands. At NAB 2010 2011 (thanks to Dave Camp for pointing out my error) when Apple took over a Final Cut Pro Users Supermeet […]
NAB 2012 – Filling The Vacuum
It’s been two years since I last attended the National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB) – a two-year period in which much of production has undergone some serious seismic shifts. NAB is the giant trade convention in Las Vegas where just about anyone who sells a good or service tied to the film, TV, Radio, […]
Editing for Dummies
The Morning After… After over a decade as a happy Final Cut Pro user, proponent, and propagandist, it’s been a terrible two weeks for me. When George Rizkallah and I went in on our first FCP v.2 system from Promax back in 2000, little did I know how accessible editing would grow to change my […]
Putting the “F” into FCP
Confessions of a Final Cut Pro Apologist At 5:30 am this past Tuesday, Apple blew the minds of editors around the world. And not in a good way. Final Cut Pro, the professional nonlinear editing (NLE) suite released by Apple over a decade ago, never had it easy. When it first appeared on the scene, […]
Summer Reading
10 Blogs Filmmakers Need to Read As I emerge from my NDA-driven rathole and rediscover the things I did before work consumed me, I’ve been catching up on some reading. Specifically blog reading (and a book or two as well). My friend Jenelle likes to make fun of me for being late to the Blog […]
Dirty Hands
The Myth of the Filmmaker Who Does Nothing but Dispense Brilliance When I attended film school, the indie-film craze was ramping up. Filmmakers like the Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, and Stephen Soderbergh were making huge waves in both indie and studio models, DIY filmmakers like Kevin Smith, Richard Linklater, and Robert Rodriguez were burning up […]
