Screenplay Markdown
Or: How I Fought The Battle With Usability and Lost, But Received Actual Productivity as a Consolation Prize
Thanks in no small part to the wise ramblings of Merlin Mann, I’m hooked on the portability and flexibility of doing as much of my creati...
Project Runway
Project Runway Season 9 just started, and I will be rabidly watching every episode. I think you should too. Here’s why.
A few years back, I did a talk at NAB about one of the fundamental ideas in The DV Rebel’s Guide: production value. Spe...
Boundaries
If you want to understand something, you have to look at its edge. It’s the boundaries of things that define them. The borders of a country allow us to recognize its shape on a map. The contours of a loved one’s face are what trigger our h...
Plot Device
On Tuesday I wrote 700 words about the new Magic Bullet Suite 11, mentioning the short film Plot Device offhandedly at the end, when really what I should have done is save myself all the typing and just post the video:
Plot Device is getting a huge re...
Magic Bullet Suite 11
Red Giant today released Magic Bullet Suite 11, which includes a major update to Magic Bullet Looks, and a new effect called Cosmo for doing cosmetic retouches.
When I first designed Magic Bullet Looks, it was with the fundamental idea that a powerful...
Final Cut Pro X Is Here
I’m downloading it now for the first time.
So is the rest of Red Giant Software.
In the past two months, Red Giant has cancelled two products and one appearance out of uncertainty regarding Final Cut Pro X’s support for the cool stuff we l...
Feature Requests
Response to my previous post has been wonderful. Ben Zotto, the creator of Penultimate, blogged about it yesterday, and Daring Fireball picked it up as well, highlighting the bit about generalizing my specific need (storyboarding templates) into a ge...
What I Do With My iPad Part 1: Storyboarding
There’s an iPad stylus review buried in here. But first, some background on why I’m so excited to be storyboarding on a tablet.
As I detailed in The DV Rebel’s Guide, storyboards don’t have to be immaculately drawn to be effect...
Small Gunns
My wife Michelle Stock and her sister Diana Stock just launched an online boutique called Small Gunns. Their first products are a custom-designed line of graphic tees for kids. My contributions included some photography on their site. And celebratory ...
Dropbox Etiquette
I’m a huge fan of Dropbox. I use it every day both to make my work computer-agnostic and to collaborate with others. I wrote about how I use it to monitor After Effects renders.
But there’s a problem with Dropbox, one that will be familiar...
Dear Some (French) Nerd: Thanks!
Literally a thousand years ago* I wrote a post titled Dear some nerd: Please port the Box2D open-source physics engine to an Adobe After Effects Script. I’m not sure if that’s exactly what Motion Boutique has done with Newton, but...
