Posts Tagged ‘production’

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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HD Magazine – HD Mag – How Apples iPad Streamlines Work On Set

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

HD Magazine – HD Mag – How Apples iPad Streamlines Work On Set.

I’ve had many people ask me if I’m going to buy and iPad.  So far I haven’t seen any good reason to spend the money because I always carry both an iPhone and my 15″ MacBook Pro.

However, this is a great description of how useful an iPad can be on-set, and how it can be used to help manage the TBs of data generated when shooting with a file-based digital HD camera.

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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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Shooting Dark Prophecy on the Canon 5D – Level 26

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Shooting Dark Prophecy on the Canon 5D – Level 26.

A well-written, highly detailed article on using the Canon 5D for production for the next installment of Anthony Zuiker’s LEVEL 26.

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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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Digital Anarchy – Beauty Box Plugin for AE

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Late last year we did some digital clean up work on a project of which the title and subject can’t be mentioned.  I did however want to mention that we utilized the nifty new After Effects plugin from Digital Anarchy – Beauty Box.  It does an amazing job retouching and evening out skin tones.  However, like our unmentionable project, the good folks at Digital Anarchy can’t actually show you BEFORE/AFTER images of the plugin in action!  None of the subjects wants to: a) admit they’ve actually used it, and b) allow actual unretouched images to be published.

Testimonials for Beauty Box Plugin

So instead of actual artist examples, they’ve got a testimonial page with quotes from some of their customers.  We gave them a glowing review, because Beauty Box made a huge difference in how we handled that project, and increased our productivity, allowing us to meet some pretty insane deadlines and keep the customer happy.

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L’Accordatore Production Diary

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

LAccordatore The Tuner Production Diary.

Here’s a link to the production blog for the short film that we just finished, it’s now going out for consideration to festivals.  We should have our IMDB listing in the next few weeks as we’re being considered for inclusion by the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

I’m really proud of the work we did, not only the compositing, but the color grade as well.  This was the first project where I’ve had 4k RED footage to play with!   Final color grading was done in AfterEffects CS4 at 4K in 32-bit float using a combination of standard tools and Magic Bullet Colorista.  Final render was 1080/24p in ProRes 422HQ.  Finishing for DVD and other media is being done by our friends at FINI in NYC.

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Rose By Any Other Name on AfterEllen.com

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Actress Stephanie Riebel says shes falling for a woman for the first time | AfterEllen.com.

This may not seem like news that belongs on our production blog, but it actually fits in a couple of ways.  The first being that I used to write for AfterEllen.com in the early days of the website.   And secondly, Stephanie is the star of web series Rose By Any Other Name which features opening title visuals by HDR-VFX.

AfterEllen.com has a huge audience, this is great exposure for the series.

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Top 10 tips for producing cheaper (or should that be cost-effective?) TV

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

As someone who is still finishing up our first in-house production, I found this article n producing quality television on a budget to be very interesting and informative.  Notable for the comments from producers of some of the best shows on TV today, including Spooks (shown in the US as MI-5) which is one of my favorites.   

From BroadcastNow.co.uk. 

Top 10 tips for producing cheaper TV | In-depth | Broadcast.

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