Aug 30, 2010

Many of you are now familiar with various break out boxes and network servers that handle all of your ingest needs from companies such as Matrox, Avid, and even Apple. Well I thought I would take some time this week to discuss a network storage solution from Telestream known as Pipeline. To read on click the image...

Aug 17, 2010

It is that time of year again, the Toronto International Film Festival is upon us. This also means its time for our annual TIFF Pub Night. The event is co-hosted with Gordon Burkell from Art of the Guillotine one of the largest post – production websites. Last year was a huge success as we had attendees from both the film and broadcast side, which...

Aug 16, 2010

This previous week I was asked to cut a low budget documentary film. Despite being low budget, docs can prove to be very exciting as generally my cut is the final cut. Upon my initial arrival in the edit suite, I thought I would be cutting on a PC based Avid. My eyes were deceived… this was no PC… this was a Hackintosh! A hackintosh is basically a...

Aug 3, 2010

The Canon 7D gets more and more use with each passing day. It’s being used on shoots from multi-cam set ups to use as a strong B and even A camera. Therefore the need for another support system had arisesed, especially due to the fact my Sachtler (which has been one of the best tripods I have ever used ) is normally supporting my either my Sony EX1 or PMW...

Aug 2, 2010

Normally when I need to compress video for the web, I often use Apple’s Compressor. However, this time around I thought I might as well use the 64 bit native Media Encoder from CS5, seeing that I had to deliver in Flash The program is has a very easy and simple to use interface. Simply Drag a clip into the encoding window and select your options from the drop...