Category Archives: Post-Production

Tape is dead! Long live tape!

By Paul | Published: November 24, 2009

It struck me today that For Memories’ Sake will probably be the last movie I’m involved with that uses videotape. Ashley began shooting the documentary with the venerable DVX-100 in 2006 and, for consistency’s sake, we stuck with that camera through production. All the new projects that I have on the horizon will be shot [...]

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Final Cut Pro tips: Here Comes Mr. Jordan

By Paul | Published: September 21, 2009

I started noodling with Final Cut Pro soon after it came out (ten years ago!) and taught myself how to use it. By taught, I mean that I learned to hack my way around and accomplish what I needed. But it wasn’t pretty or fast.
After a few years, I really started feeling the limitations [...]

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iPhone Film Calculator application

By Paul | Published: October 14, 2008

The folks at 2.1 Films have just released an iPhone Film Calculator. From the description:
Film Calculator has three basic functions:
Length & Time Converter: This function allows the user quickly convert length to time and vice versa for a variety of film stocks and speeds. Choose from Super-8mm, 16mm, 35mm or 70mm stocks and preset frames [...]

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Red Centre at fxguide

By Paul | Published: September 22, 2008

For those who are trying to stay up to date on the Red One camera, let me recommend fxguide’s Red Centre podcast. Each episode features Jason Wingrove and Mike Seymour discussing the latest news, accessories, and tech tips (both production and postproduction).
I recently dug into these episodes and found they’re a good way of staying [...]

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iPhone WebApps for Filmmakers

By Paul | Published: July 11, 2008

iPhone 3G is being released today. If you are submitting to the mania, or already have a (non 3G) iPhone, these web apps are for you. I’ll do a version of apps from the iPhone apps store at some point. Until then, enjoy these web apps on the set or off…
All descriptions are pulled from [...]

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