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Watched this awesome video by Michael Coleman on Vimeo about the sound design in the new Transformers movie. It’s interesting on many fronts, but one of the most interesting is a statement made by at the very beginning made by Greg Russell, Re-recording Mixer:
Michael [Bay] has always said sound is 50% of the experience of [...]

Storyboarding is a great tool for videographers and filmmakers to use in preparing for shoots. Some filmmakers use digital cameras to shoot photos in locations there they want to shoot and use stand-ins for actor positioning. I’ve been awaiting a mobile app for performing the basic functions of storyboarding and now, Hitchcock appears to have [...]

Thanks to Adobe I found a great chart for encoding video to FLV at a variety so different standard (and not so standard) sizes which their gurus had tested to determine which were the best, better, and good settings. Problem is I cannot for the life of me find it online again and I have [...]

Several years ago (about a decade) my desk at work had a PC on one corner and a MAC on the other. Lot’s of OS water has crossed the bridge since those days so when I purchased a used MacBook Pro to begin learning Final Cut Studio for video projects I had some catching up [...]

If you haven’t seen the Charles Schwab commercials which popularized the cartoon look in video most recently I have no idea what hole you’ve been hiding in. Now, NewBluefx is offering this capability for most of the popular editing softwares as a FREE downloadable plug-in called Cartoonr.

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