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Native Adobe Premiere and AE support for Red R3D files

Posted in 4K, Adobe, Adobe Premiere, AfterEffects, Indie filmmaking, R3D, Red Camera, SDK, film editing, high-definition, post-production on Thursday, 31 July 2008, 10:22 am | Leave a Comment »

Very cool. Jim Jannard has announced on reduser.net this morning: “Within a week, RED R3D files will open natively in CS3 Premiere Pro and After Effects.” Very cool. I presume they’ll be able to handle full 4K images. But not sure about that. Well, here’s one quick way to solve Quicktime gamma issues…

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As Price of Air Tix Soar, “Telepresence” + Web 2.0 Booming

Posted in Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, group IM, groupware, high-definition, online office apps, online training, telepresence, web-based meetings, wikis on Thursday, 24 July 2008, 9:10 am | Leave a Comment »

See the International Herald Tribune’s good roundup article, Meetings Going Virtual to Save Money: The emerging trend, analysts say, goes well beyond a reaction to rising travel costs and a weakening economy this year. “These technology tools are going to change the way corporations think about travel and work in the long run,” said Claire [...]

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RainDance.tv: “Indie Films Go Web 2.0″… Not

Posted in Indie filmmaking, Jaman, Web 2.0, digital distribution, high-definition, indie distribution, online movies, online video, web video, zendesk on Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 9:26 am | Leave a Comment »

My friend Michael Hansen of Zendesk gave me the heads up on a new service, RainDance.tv, which this profile (on Killer Startups) touts as indie films on Web 2.0 (the two topics of my blog). I’ve quickly checked it out. And so far I’m underwhelmed. It’s not really Web 2.0 at all: no ratings, recommendations, [...]

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Matt Dentler Talking about Digital Distribution

Posted in Cinetic Rights Management, Indie filmmaking, Matt Dentler, Web 2.0, digital cinema, digital distribution, indie distribution, online movies, online video, set-top boxes on Monday, 21 July 2008, 11:47 pm | Leave a Comment »

at LA film festival. Matt’s at Cinetic Rights Managment, which I touched on in a post last week. Listen to what he has to say. Makes sense. Indie features to set top boxes won’t happen by itself; needs evangelists like Matt.

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“Cloud-centric Machines”: you don’t need powerful expensive computers to surf “the cloud”

Posted in Net-tops, Nicholas Carr, SaaS, Web 2.0, cloud computing, cloud-centric computers, online office apps on Monday, 21 July 2008, 10:09 pm | Leave a Comment »

Check out this article from today’s International Herald Tribune: New minicomputers for $300 Most important part of the article: Several makers are taking the low-powered PCs one step further. In the coming months, they are expected to introduce “net-tops,” low-cost versions of desktop computers intended for Internet access. A Silicon Valley start-up called CherryPal says [...]

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SaaSaS: “Software As A Service, As Software”

Posted in CRM, Enterprise 2.0, SaaS, Web 2.0 on Monday, 21 July 2008, 12:38 pm | Leave a Comment »

Isn’t this a bit like a jumbo shrimp? Phil Wainwright of ZDNet has a post on a Software as a Service (SaaS) who has decided to abandon the browser and deliver their product through… software (albeit of the thin client variety). Now admittedly their software may just be a charged up browser. But the whole [...]

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Red on Rollerblades

Posted in Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, cameras, rollerblades on Monday, 21 July 2008, 12:24 pm | Leave a Comment »

Hunter Richards has a post on reduser.net about a indie basketball feature he just wrapped, where he shot basketball scenes while rollerblading. An indie filmmaker after my own heart! I shot a scene in my feature “Indebted” this way–but with a Sony HDR-FX1. Not sure if I have the cajones to skate backward with my [...]

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Red starts shipping “fastest CF cards on the planet” (16Gb)

Posted in 4K, Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, compact flash on Saturday, 19 July 2008, 5:30 pm | Leave a Comment »

Red’s Jarred Land announced today on reduser.net that they’ve started shipping their Red-built 16Gb compact flash (CF) cards. Deanan from Red points out that these are the fastest CF cards on the planet. They allow for approximately 8 minutes of 4K 16:9 (4096 x 2304 pixels) “footage” to be shot. It’s like having a full [...]

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Dov S-S Simens filmmaking course next weekend in Hong Kong

Posted in Hong Kong, Indie filmmaking, how-to, indie distribution on Friday, 18 July 2008, 10:34 am | Leave a Comment »

Dov S-S Simens is brining his 2-day film school to Hong Kong (Univ. of Hong Kong, Wang Gungwu Theatre) on July 26-27. Well worthwhile, if you’re interested in making movies–from story/script to “nuts and bolts” and how distribution and financing works. Dov pierces the mystery of how films get made. And how you can make [...]

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A Professional Editor and Post-guy’s Postive Take on Working With Red Footage

Posted in Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, blogs, film editing, high-definition, post-production on Thursday, 17 July 2008, 8:53 am | 1 Comment »

Check out this good and thoughtful post by Mr. Vix on his experience doing post-production and editing of Red footage from the Blind Generation music video shot on my Red #1304.

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