Energy Saver Profiles for Creative Professionals
If you’re like most creative professionals, you probably use your computer for editing, graphics, effects, audio production, and any number of other tasks that require maximum performance from your system. You probably also use that same system for many other things that don’t require top performance. My usual ritual when starting work for the day ...
How much should I charge to edit this video?
I get this question a lot from freelance editors that are just starting out. They always have a tough time figuring out how to price their services. Creative people tend to have difficulty with the business side of things and get themselves into undesirable situations all too often. Have you ever set a flat rate ...
What a nice camera. It must make good stories.
I’m as much of a camera nut as the next filmmaker, and I am ecstatic about the giant leaps that camera technology has been making of late. Like so many others, I’m on the Amazon.com waiting list for two Canon 7D bodies, and they just can’t get here fast enough. But I have been noticing ...
Adobe Kuler In OS X Color Picker
Adobe Kuler is an indispensable tool for anyone that works with color. No matter what variety of media you work with, if you need to whip up amazing color schemes you should be using this tool. If you work on a Mac, this just got easier. Using the Mondrianum 2 plugin for the Apple OS ...
Building Implosion in Slow Motion HD
Why would anyone wake up at 5:00 AM on a Saturday? To see a building implode via dynamite demolition of course. I have never witnessed a building imploding in person before, so I just had to check it out. And since I was going to see this, of course I brought along my camera to ...
How to Edit Faster and More Efficiently – Part 2 – Bin Organization
This second installment of the edit faster and more efficiently series is an extension of part 1 File Organization. Now that you have an organization system that works, it’s time to move to the next step in the quest for video editing speed and efficiency – keeping bins organized. Sloppy bins are just as much ...
How to Edit Faster and More Efficiently – Part 1 – File Organization
Is it possible to speed up your film or video editing and become more efficient without spending truckloads of cash on the latest bleeding edge hardware? Yes. You can edit faster without spending any money. Increasing your editing efficiency can actually make you more money. With the amount of time I spend working in non-linear ...
AFAIR – My Directorial Debut Has Arrived
I have never directed a film before so when my assistant editor Adam asked me to direct an entry to the National Film Challenge, I agreed. Who in their right mind would turn down a fun, sleep deprived weekend of filmmaking? Not me, that’s for sure. And fun it was. We had a weekend of ...
That Post Show – Avid Post Production
If you are involved in post-production, or in filmmaking in general, you should lend an ear to That Post Show. Host John Flowers invited me and Scott Simmons on this week’s show to talk about some post-production goodness. John, Scott, and I have a great discussion about the current state of the NLE software landscape. We talk about ...