OK. So I broke down and bought an iPad 7 April at The Forum Apple Store in Las Vegas. Wasn’t intending to. But I looked at the reel on YouTube in high def from my company Kanda River Productions on it and was blown away–by the definition, portability and prospect of handing clips around to [...]
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Ten Cool iPad apps for filmmakers + why I’m lovin’ my iPad in general
Posted in Apple, Apple Color, Cineform, Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, NAB 2010, color correction, iPad, teleprompter on Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 11:31 am | 4 Comments »
Online distribution not working for indie filmmakers yet
Posted in Apple, Hulu, Indie filmmaking, Jaman, Metcalf's Law, Red digital cinema, Scott Kirsner, cinema, crowd sourcing, digital distribution, downloads, ecommerce, indie distribution, long tail, online movies, online video, self-distribution, set-top box on Sunday, 4 October 2009, 11:11 am | 1 Comment »
Scott Kirsner (of CinemaTech blog) has a good article in Variety which gives gives the cold hard facts on a frustrating phenomenon: online distribution of indie films isn’t happening in a meaningful or profitable way yet, for indie filmmakers: “…while more success stories are starting to be seen, the indie download business is still having [...]
FinalCut Pro 7 and New FinalCut Studio Released!
Posted in 4K, Apple, Apple Color, Apple ProRes 422, Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, film editing on Thursday, 23 July 2009, 10:13 pm | 1 Comment »
Unexpectedly (to me and a lot of others it seems) a whole new upgraded FinalCut Studio’s been released. Top 4 things I’m excited about in it: Color supports native 4K Red R3D files. Color support Tangent Wave. FinalCut supports better editing Red (not sure if it handles R3Ds, but there’s a new flavour of ProRes [...]
Red Won’t Be At NAB in 2009
Posted in 4K, 5K, Adobe, Adobe Premiere, AfterEffects, Apple, Apple Color, Cineform, Final Cut, NAB, Red Camera, Red Epic, Red digital cinema, Scarlet on Thursday, 8 January 2009, 9:57 am | 1 Comment »
Jim Jannard announced yesterday that Red won’t attend NAB in 2009: RED has decided to skip NAB 2009. We will hold our own RED DAY when we feel we are ready to present the new systems and when they are fully ready to showcase. Date and location will be announced in future. A minor delay [...]
FinalCut and Color now support Red R3D files natively!
Posted in 4K, Apple, Apple Color, Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, Native R3D handling, R3D, Red Camera on Friday, 21 November 2008, 8:13 am | 2 Comments »
According to a post less than 2 hours ago by Brent of Red on reduser.net: Available on www.red.com/support . SUMMARY: Provides native RECODE media (R3D) support for Final Cut Pro and Color. Includes: RED QuickTime Codec (v3.7.0), Log and Transfer (v1.0.0), REDCODE plugin for Color (v2.7.0), and Final Cut Studio RED workflow whitepaper. Note: Supports [...]
Avid posts detailed workflows for working with Red
Posted in Adobe Premiere, Apple, Apple Color, Avid, Indie filmmaking, R3D, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, post-production, workflow on Thursday, 6 November 2008, 9:21 am | Leave a Comment »
Great news, for you Avid folk. Avid is proactively supporting Red workflows with detailed workflow help, including this excellent 12-page pdf entitled, “Using Red Files in an Avid-based Workflow: Step-By-Step Reference Guide”. I’m not an Avid guy, but this kind of detailed “here and now assistance” may make me check it out (as opposed to [...]
Time: Operating Systems Becoming “Irrelevant” to Anyone Under 21
Posted in Apple, Vista, Web 2.0, cloud computing, cloud-centric computers on Saturday, 23 August 2008, 10:04 am | 1 Comment »
So you’ve heard Seinfeld is plugging Microsoft Vista. Past-prime star for past-prime OS. But Time Magazine, in Seinfeld: The Right Man for Microsoft, writes that it doesn’t even matter cuz the cloud is coming and OSs are soon irrelevant: Still, online and elsewhere, the news was met with derision. Why, the armchair analysts wonder, would [...]
Mike Curtis’ Review of Final Cut Server
Posted in Apple, Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, film editing, post-production on Monday, 4 August 2008, 7:17 am | 2 Comments »
Apple has released recently a new piece of server software that can be run from a Mac Pro to allow organization of tens of thousands of video clips and thousands of video projects: Final Cut Server. Check out the Final Cut Server review by Mike Curtis (of hdforindies) at MacWorld, where he gives it 3 [...]
Why I’ve Just Unsubscribed from All My CRM/Loyalty Programs’ Mailing Lists
Posted in Amazon, Apple, CRM, Loyalty Programs, RSS, Web 2.0 on Sunday, 13 July 2008, 12:54 pm | 1 Comment »
I’ve been meaning to do this ever since I got a Blackberry and started my own business 15 months ago. And now that I’ve done it, it feels great. And I highly recommend you do it too: Unsubscribe from all the CRM/Loyalty programs who you opted in to receive emails from. Here’s my story: I, [...]
Red and Ted in Hong Kong
Posted in 4K, Apple, Hong Kong, QMaster, R3D, REDCINE, Red Alert, Red Camera, Red Epic, Red digital cinema, Ted Schilowitz, cameras, high-definition on Friday, 6 June 2008, 1:49 pm | 8 Comments »
[UPDATE, 12 June 2008, 1am HK time: I've learned that Stewart Chong has been posting his comment below (with links back here to this post) in various places (e.g., HK Final Cut Pro Users Group and reduser.net). For the record, I have no formal affiliation with Red. I'm just a satisfied customer and friend/acquaintance of [...]
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