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In the last month I’ve had a play with Apples new FinalCut Pro X. My experience has led me to ramble on about Apples current treatment of the Pro market. FCP-X received quite a lot of hash reviews immediately upon its release, wether they where fair reviews or just negative …
Well it’s been a good month. I received a facility staff award for innovation in teaching and learning (mostly for my use of video and screencasts) and also Won a 3D rendering comp over at Cornucopia3d with an image that took me 20 minutes. Admittedly I used an ice texture I …
Recently I bought a brand new Canon 60D ( + 17-135mm lens and a 50mm f1.8 prime). Before you ask, I couldn’t afford the 5D mark II. The 7D was affordable but it wasn’t the cost difference that influenced by purchase. Firstly, the 60D and 7D are almost identical, both …
I was going to right up a bit about the talk I went to last week about Digital Cinema Package, however Damon over at the LastFlight blog beat me to it. Rather than a re-write I suggest you pop over there and have a read. Theres some huge changes happening behind …
I’d like to write something today that is a little off topic to the rest of this blog about the recent riots in the UK [edit: and to a degree the ‘occupy wall street’ protests]. Theres four groups I need to identify, rioter, defenders, clean up crews, and the police. …
As I mentioned in my last post about AppleTV, last night my wife and I spent a few hours watching TED videos. One of these was a presentation by Thomas Hetherwick, a London based Architect/Designer (http://www.heatherwick.com/). I was already familiar with his work however it was nice to see what …
A couple of my friends have AppleTV’s and love them which got me thinking, why? I’ve known about the AppleTV for some time however I never bothered to even try one out. I wasn’t impressed with the maximum resolution of 720p, no record feature (as in other hard drive PVRs), …
Just a quick post. Uploaded all of the student videos from a paper I teach @ Unitec to YouTube. You can watch them all here. The Paper also has a blog if you want to post feedback; filmcad.wordpress.com. There will also be a screening @ Unitec on the 11th August. …
Just found this. Its Steve Jobs presenting a second Apple campus they intend to build to the Cupertino City Council. It’s a round low rise building with massive curved glass windows that will hold approx 12,000 employees while incorporating a huge 135 acres of lanscaped grounds. The design dramatically minimizes …
Well here it is, the official trailer for last flight, put together by Richard Thomas (also from Sunset Studios). Incase your wondering why it’s here, I shot some of it (mostly in the studio) including the first wide you see in the trailer, the low angle where she climbs up …