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farmerswife’s Collaborative Platform for Media Production
If you’re tired of using multiple tools to manage your media production projects, tune in to this video to learn about farmerswife’s all-in-one production management solution.
Mac Pro – Light at the End of the Tunnel is not Death
I'm not one to post breaking news, but as a Mac Pro user this make me very happy. A lot of new Apple toys were announced on Monday. Many of us hoped there would be an update to the Mac Pro, which hasn't seen any changes in over 2 years. What Apple did was akin to...
Final Cut Pro X – I Had it All Wrong. Metadata is the light.
Not too long ago, I swore off FCPX as a project sabotaging POS and was trying to figure out where to go next. Today, FCPX is all I'm using and I don't see myself jumping ship. How'd I learn to stop worrying and love the bomb? One word. Metadata. With completely...
Bullet Time – Coming Soon
I'm playing with the footage in FCPX. Hopefully I can share soon, along with some DIY rig tips.
Get the Real Bitrate for Your Video Files
I'll go more in-depth soon with how I've been loving the GH2, but wanted to post a quick free app I found that's been very helpful in analyzing video files. First off, I hacked the GH2 to get a bitrate of 44 mbps. Great stuff, but it leaves me with AVCHD files that...
Is Group Brainstorming BS?
People in groups tend to sit back and let others do the work; they instinctively mimic others’ opinions and lose sight of their own; and, often succumb to peer pressure. The Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns found that when we take a stance different from...
5 Examples to Turn Photos to Movies that are Not the Ken Burns Effect
While not usually a problem for fiction films (unless it's a stylistic choice), most documentaries find the only visual media available for some parts of the film are still photos. The most common method that comes to mind to add movement to still photos is the Ken...
Ramit Sethi with Chase Jarvis – Business Advice For Creative Professionals
I've been following Ramit Sethi for a few years, back when I interviewed him for my doc You 2.0. He just had his blog, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, and offered a different approach to personal finance advice. He works really, really hard and in the years since has...
The Panasonic GH2 Review – Small, Awesome, and Less Than $1000
A DSLR that doesn't overheat, doesn't have a recording limit, shoots the gamut of HD frame rates, autofocuses while filming, and is less than $900…does it exist?! Yes. The Backstory I've been sitting on the sidelines for the past few years during the DSLR battles. For...
Now I can blur the s#!@ out of anything
Yes, I got on the DSLR bandwagon. Well, technically it's not a DSLR as the Panasonic GH2 is a Micro Four-Thirds camera that lacks a flipping mirror. But for the sake of video, that's actually an advantage. About a week ago the GH2 wasn't even on my radar when I...