Level Up!
As we’re all aware that you can build a business from videography, there will be times when you invest in equipment. There will be times when you divest from equipment. The hope being that you divest your equipment when prices are high, and invest in equipment when prices are low. At all times, you bear...
The Cambrian exposion of videography
A long time ago, nature fetched a really strong cup of morning coffee and decided things needed a little shaking up on the evolution front, and life on earth went through a period of experimentation. It left behind an interesting and sometimes confusing fossil record that left many biologists overwhelmed and sighing ‘Oh no, not...
A bit of fun
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – RGM version In an odd reversal of fate, OK Go – the band who bought you treadmill ballet – reprise Honda’s ‘cog’ ad (and the rest) yet up the ante. It made me laugh, it made me watch again. So it works for me. Please do enjoy...
Canon 7D vs EX1 – lens comparison
With only days to go before I get my Canon 550D (I’m choosing that over the 7D so I can use my SDHC cards), I’m filling in the waiting time with final little checks and shopping lists of things I really shouldn’t buy yet, things I do need to buy, things to go and shoot...
And another thing…
Just back from the Broadcast show (BVE2010?), where I participated on a panel hosted by Rick Young about the future of video, alongside luminaries Larry Jordan, Christina and David Fox. We debated various topics and I hope it will be up on MacVideo.TV soon. But as always in these situations, I’ve come out of the...
iPad – or should that have been LooBook Pro?
Or even ‘a little something for the weekend’? Like the 2000 network engineers whom I’m filming in Barcelona this week, I downed tools to watch the Apple announcement of their new toy: the iPad. It is, to all intents and purposes, a big iPhone. Big enough to watch stuff on, read stuff (in colour, in...
Papa’s got a brand new disk
I’ve upgraded the internal hard disk of my main MacBook Pro this week, and whilst it’s not the most stunning upgrade in the world, it has left a rosy glow on things. It’s also left behind a very useful little disk drive that will be a constant travelling companion. It has also given me absolute...
Papa’s got a brand new drive
I’ve upgraded the internal hard disk of my main MacBook Pro this week, and whilst it’s not the most stunning upgrade in the world, it has left a rosy glow on things. It’s also left behind a very useful little disk drive that will be a constant travelling companion. It has also given me absolute...
Where’s yo’ head at?
I’ve been restricted to quarters due to Man Flu recently, and have kept some rather odd company, in the form of the boxed DVD set of ‘Visual Effects for Directors’. Over 7 intensive DVDs, the Hollywood Camera Work team takes you through the basics and the not so basics of working with 3d software, compositing,...
EX1R SD Workflow – tales from the front line
I shoot with Sony’s PMW-EX1 (and now an EX1R). Brilliant cameras, they shoot onto solid state ‘memory cards’ rather than tape. They shoot ‘files’ rather than ‘footage’, and the benefit is that it’s quicker to copy an hour’s worth of video from a card than it is from a tape. A half, a third, even...
All White Now…
No birds, no bees, no proper time of day, November. Paraphrased, it lacks a little something. But on the whole it’s that time of year that outdoor shoots feel as cold and drab as the weather, as the sky is encased in tupperware and everything looks a little ‘bleah’. Time to bring out the Warm...
Feeling my way
So Apple’s looking for somebody to ‘Take Maps to the Next Level‘. If ever there was a phrase that falls with a dull thud, there it is. There’s nothing wrong with maps. Not Maps, just maps in general. They’re great. It’s an amazing spin on our experience of the world, where our vision is translated...
