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Recipes for grading low light “Memorium” shot on Mysterium-X

Posted in HKRUG, Hong Kong, Indie filmmaking, Mysterium-X, Red Camera, RedCine-X, color correction on Wednesday, 30 June 2010, 5:48 pm | Leave a Comment »

We had a good third meeting of the Hong Kong Red User Group last night. About 20 people came. I presented how I one-light colour graded my Mysterium-X test shoot short, “Memorium” (see below). And we watched off my AppleTV selections from the final episode of this season of “House”, shot on a Canon 5D [...]

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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 »

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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Email reply to questions from a student filmmaker in Malaysia

Posted in 24P, Apple Color, Canon 7D, GH-1, Indie filmmaking, Malaysia, color correction, image stabilization, lighting, road movie, story on Sunday, 1 November 2009, 10:22 am | Leave a Comment »

Got an email this morning from a student filmmaker in Malaysia with a lot of questions, no doubt shared by other budding filmmakers. Usually I’m just too busy with a million other things to answer well emails like this (because I don’t even have time to answer well emails from friends and family). But this [...]

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Go see brilliant movie “Three Monkeys” by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, now on DVD

Posted in Indie filmmaking, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, auteur, cinematography, color correction, digital cinema, directing on Saturday, 1 August 2009, 9:12 pm | Leave a Comment »

Sometimes you see a movie so good, you need to tell everyone you meet: go see it. Such is Three Monkeys by Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, which I watched last night on DVD. A brilliant, beautiful, slow-burning, disturbing film. Ceylan comes from a still photography background and the cinematography is painterly, evocative and stunning. [...]

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Soderbergh on shooting his new movie “Girlfriend Experience” on Red

Posted in Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, Redcode RAW, Soderbergh, cinematography, color correction, digital cinema, directing, interviews on Monday, 25 May 2009, 7:57 am | Leave a Comment »

Good interview in Filmmaker Magazine online with Stephen Soderbergh, on shooting his new movie “Girlfriend Experience” on Red.

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NAB ’09 3 Coolest Things: Red Pro Primes + GearNex Gear Head + Panny GH1

Posted in 24P, 4K, 5K, Adobe, Adobe Premiere, AfterEffects, Apple Color, Apple ProRes 422, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Cineform, Criterion, Epic, GH-1, Gearnex, NAB, Panasonic, Quicktime, RPP, Red Pro Primes, Red accessories, Redrock Micro, Scarlet, Ted Schilowitz, cameras, cinematography, color correction, digital cinema, handheld, high-definition, lens mounts, lenses, maps on Sunday, 19 April 2009, 12:45 pm | 6 Comments »

[UPDATE, 20 April, 8am: added some thoughts on post-production as P.S. at the end of this post] OK, so this is admittedly subjective but here are three about-to-be-released things that will create a lot of buzz at NAB–which I’m likely to buy for my budding boutique indie feature film studio here in Hong Kong: Red [...]

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Great A.C.E. Podcast on Red Basics for Editors, by PlasterCity Guys

Posted in 4K, A.C.E., Assimilate Scratch, Avid, DCP, DIT, Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, PlasterCity, Quicktime, R3D, REDCINE, Red Alert, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, Redcode RAW, backup, color correction, digital cinema, digital distribution, film editing, podcast, post-production on Thursday, 18 September 2008, 12:30 pm | Leave a Comment »

If you’re an editor or anyone interested in Red One camera post-production workflow, check out this excellent podcast, sponsored by the American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.): About 35 people assembled in the DI theater at PlasterCITY Digital Post in Hollywood on Tuesday, May 13, and were treated to a fantastic presentation on using the Red Camera [...]

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Free Apple Color Grades/Pre-sets: From Wisdom of Crowds

Posted in Apple Color, Indie filmmaking, Web 2.0, cinematography, color correction, post-production, wisdom of crowds on Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 7:24 am | Leave a Comment »

Check out coloruser.net, a site by and for Apple Color users, with forums and color grades that people have posted up for free.

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Final Cut Server + Assimilate’s Scratch Cine released

Posted in Assimilate Scratch, Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, color correction, post-production, telecine, workflow on Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 1:39 am | Leave a Comment »

Two good and interesting things released, in advance of NAB… Final Cut Server Asset management and workflow automation for post-production studios using Final Cut (where many editors touch a projects and there are thousands of shared and re-purposed media assets). Scratch Cine (for Red) from Assimilate: Virtual telecine for Red .R3D files, i.e., project manage [...]

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Good Apple Color Tuturial + Other Color Correction/Grading Resources

Posted in Apple Color, Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, R3D, REDCINE, Red Alert, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, color correction, film editing, high-definition, post-production on Saturday, 8 March 2008, 12:38 pm | 4 Comments »

Well, I’ve received my new maxed out 15″ MacBook Pro (2.6Ghz, 4Mb RAM, iPhone-esque trackpad). Will start to set it up tomorrow, with Final Cut Studio 2 & VMWare Fusion, and software helper apps from Red. Goal is to start playing with Red footage. I’m also anxious to check out Apple Color (which comes bundled [...]

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