A few weeks ago I wrote about the new site Flattr, which is a new venture to try to monetize blog content. Basically it's a button like a Digg button, you click on stuff you like and depending on how many things you Flattr, the monthly amount of money that's in your...
Video Apps
TechCrunch Disrupt
I'm at TechCrunch Disrupt right now, watching Charlie Rose asking questions about the future of tech. I'm here to keep an eye out for new technologies that can be used to produce, market, distribute, and engage audiences for films and filmmakers. So far SCVNGR has...
Meetup Everywhere – Organize an Audience for Your Film
Meetup is a site and tool that allows you to create a group and organize real life meetups (remember those?). Usually these were location based (like Miami Movie Makers) so if you had a company or movement, you couldn't really enable independent groups to organize and...
Dorsey’s Golden Gate Speech – Design the Beautiful, Build the Impossible
In the recent Vanity Fair article on Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and now running his new payment startup Square, he references a speech he gave at Square on design aesthetic using the Golden Gate Bridge as an example. That speech is now online on TechCrunch, and...
The Biggest, Cheapest White Board You’ll Find
It's always been a dream of mine to have a wall covered in seamless dry erase board (yeah, I have weird dreams). But just imagine having such a large space to brainstorm, draw, write notes, etc. I wanted to have one for the edit suite of Bots High, and I had a...
Dropbox and Post-Production Hacks
Have a few hacks we discovered while editing Bots High. Our main challenge was how we (Andrew the editor and I) could streamline two computers working off the same Final Cut files (not simultaneously) to access the same footage. Some reasons for this - Andrew could...
Movie Planning, Screening, and Streaming Tools
Two Thursdays ago marked the long awaited Bots High screening day, a launch for the film that enabled anyone to host a screening of the film for free (plus they could tune into a live streaming Q&A). The highlights: 27 cities, 7 countries, and a release of the...
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...
Pro Versioner Adds Dropbox Backup to FCPX
While there is a lot I love about Final Cut Pro X, there's a few changes that I've had to find workarounds for. One is backing up project files. I've posted before about my FCP 7 workflow with project files. I'd keep all my project files in a Dropbox folder, which...