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Shooting with the EX-1, Canon 7D, and AJA KiPro

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Canon 7D on set.

Just finished the second 16 hour day on a music video shoot here in San Francisco.  Lots of green screen, set pieces, and waves of red satin.  I’m finally getting to shoot with our AJA KiPro. This morning I shot with the EX-1 using 35mm Nikon glass on a CineVate adapter.  It was feeding the  1080p video via HD-SDI.  Later on in the afternoon (and into the night), I had it hooked it up to the Canon 7D, acquiring picture via HDMI.  I can’t wait to see the images.

More details later, when I’m sure it’s OK to talk about. :)

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HD Camera Technologies Panel at SVFilmFest

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

At 5pm PT this Saturday, I’ll be appearing on the HD Camera Technologies panel with Art Adams, Jim Cummings, Peggy Peralta, Craig Shell, and moderator Matthew Galvin, at the First Annual Silicon Valley Film Festival – “Celebrating Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Spirit, and Innovation in Cinema”  - Saturday, August 21, 2010, in Sunnyvale, CA.

For tickets, schedule, and venue details: www.svfilmfest.org

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The Tao of Color

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Being a color geek myself, I wanted to give a shout-out to our friend Patrick Inhofer of FINI.tv   He has a new website devoted to educating people about the art and science of color grading:  The Tao of Color

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LA Shorts Fest 2010

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

L’ACCORDATORE will be screening at the Laemmle Sunset 5 Theatres in Hollywood on Sunday, July 25, at 5:30 pm as part of LA Shorts Fest PROGRAM #17.

I don’t think I’ll be able to be there for the screening, as I’ll be at Comic-Con earlier in the week and then I’ll be on my way up to Vancouver, BC, (the center of the sci-fi TV universe) via Portland, OR, for a bit of vacation.

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Best Short Film, 2010 LVFF

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

It’s been crazy since I returned to Nyack a couple of weeks ago, so it doesn’t surprise me that I completely forgot to post about our trip to Sin City.  Still, how on earth could I ever forget that we won Best Short Film!  We screened in the first block of Shorts on Saturday afternoon, and on Sunday morning producer George Elias and myself took part in the Filmmaker’s Panel.

The Philly Indie Fest was last weekend, and in a few weeks, we screen out in Los Angeles at LA ShortFest.

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Post-Production Starts in Pre-Production for Indie Moviemakers

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Post-Production Starts in Pre-Production for Indie Moviemakers | MovieMaker Magazine.

I found this article to be interesting and a bit prescient, as we (David & myself) begin to think about re-branding ourselves as the company approaches our 5th anniversary.

We seem to be doing much more than just visual effects work now, almost as if we were a full-service indie post-production company.  So stay tuned as we begin the metamorphosis…

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The Tuner in Las Vegas, then Philadelphia!

Monday, May 31st, 2010

This week I’ll be off to Las Vegas for the US premiere of “L’Accordatore (The Tuner)” on Saturday, June 5th.

We’ve also just been informed that the short has been selected by the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival which runs June 23-27th, 2010.

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San Francisco Film Race 2010

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

I’m out in San Francisco this month and the next, networking and catching up with local events like BAWIFM’s 7th Anniversary, the SF Photoshop Meetup, and the SF Cutters monthly meeting.

As of 10pm on Friday April 30th, I’m taking part in the San Francisco Film Race 2010 as part of the Earthquakes team, lead by Director/Writer Carrie Nowocin.

I just got our script for the shoot…production starts in a few hours.  Check back for a post-race blog and maybe even a few behind-the-scenes pictures.

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Latest project: “CONFINED”, a horror short shot on the Canon 7D

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

The weekend before last, David and I worked on our next project in the pipeline, the horror short “CONFINED”.    It was a two camera shoot, using the new Canon 7D HD-DSLR.  David was Second Unit Director, and I was DIT for the single day shoot, as well as Post/VFX Supervisor for the project.  I also got a chance to work with a beta of Red Giant Software’s Grinder, which does a great job of transcoding the heavily compressed H264 QuickTime clips into Apple ProRes 422. For ease of editing, and to give us a bit more to work with when doing VFX and Grading.

The project is currently in the edit stage, I’ll post a bit more when it’s back in-house for finishing. Until then, you can catch up with the news and watch the brand-spanking new trailer here:  CONFINED Blog & Trailer

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“L’Accordatore” official selection – Las Vegas Film Festival, June 4-6, 2010

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Our RED-lensed short film L’ACCORDATORE (The Tuner) is an official selection of the Las Vegas Film Festival, June 4-6, 2010!  The short will make its US Premiere at the festival, screening in the first Shorts Block on Saturday, June 5th at 2pm in the Shimmer Theatre of the Las Vegas Hilton.

2010 Las Vegas International Film Festival

As mentioned in a previous blog, L’ACCORDATORE makes its International Premiere at the Rincon International Film Festival in Puerto Rico, next Wednesday, April 21st, 2010.

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