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Hey I tossed the continuation of my AE/Mocha Roto tutorials online. Tutorial 2 delves into matching in a background. Tutorial 3 is traditional roto techniques. I plan on doing many more of these in the future, so any requests, comments that help me constructively find good topics are much...

Hey everyone. Looong time no post. I've decided to start posting a series of tutorials on my site related to film making. Many will deal with VFX and AE (as I am a VFX Supervisor/Artist by trade). Originally, I intended to do one tutorial on a neat trick to use Mocha AE for roto work... it...

Hey guys, I got a 444 TIFF sequence from a house to day to do a green screen composite of. Shot on the F23. The footage looks flat (intentionally so) but upon close inspection, there was a lot of noise, especially in the blue channel. This made keying a ***** in AE and Nuke. I was wondering...

Well, not really, not at all. But these veoh.com people did interview me for my work on some webisodes, which we shot with two HVX cameras both strapped with P+S Techniks btw. (I personally own a Brevis BTW). Check it out if your bored: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v4881640tYDTJYGD If you...

I got this PM, which I thought better answered in a post for all to share and discuss: aalleexx: I'm actually not an HVX expert. I own one, but I am too lazy to open the box and study the sound inputs right now :) So I am going to make the assumption that there are 2 XLR inputs, each one...

Hey guys, I just finished producing this: http://www.cbs.com/ghost I also did all the CC using Color (With an Apple Cinema Display calibrated to a 2.2 gamma with a Spyder 2 pro, and also constant DVD outputs. Too bad Color doesn't output via FW.. yet. I wanted to give you guys my workflow...

So a while back I posted about these "Ghost Whisperer" webisodes I did post supervision on. Well, I geeked out and got an AppleTV and naturally, I wanted to check out everything I could get my hands on on it. I was quite impressed with the quality on my HDTV. It feels really good to have a...

For your convencience: http://www.cbs.com/ghost http://fansofgw.com/tostrailer <---HD and iPod trailers Hey I've been a long time member of these boards so I thought I would share here: I recently was Post Production Supervisor on a "Webisode" series shot as the internet counterpart for the...

Hey, So I am editing a rock video for some friends. They really wanted to give the editor a good time, so what they did is shot all the sync masters MOS in slo-mo. No slate, no reference audio. They sped the audio up 200% so the lead singer sang really fast, the theory being that when slowed...

So, recently, I have had the good fortune of meeting a lot of VPs from a lot of studios. Some TV show runners, and network execs. Everyone comes to me asking the same questions: What do you think about youtube? What do you think about UGC (user generated content)? What's the future? As if...

Ok, Aristotle made a list a long time ago. I'm going to modify it a bit, but just out of curiosity, for an independent project. That is, the stuff we see here, in film festivals, and in smaller theatrical release, put these in order from most to least important (for you): cinematography...

Hey all, I thought I would bring up an interesting topic for debate. Two days ago I had the honor of meeting and talking business with Aaron Ryder, producer or Memento, Donnie Darko, and recently, the Prestige. I've also been talking with several prominent people in the TV world (A Showrunner...

Anyone selling a nikon nikkor 85mm MF 1.4 (or 1.8) or a similar 105mm? I'm looking to buy a good used portrait lens in LA

Here's some uncorrected snaps I did at USC with my new D80 with the 18-130mm nikkor. I've found the the camera performs really well in daylight and on a long lens gets interesting bokeh patterns (I'de show you but my wife would kill me for showing her pix!). Here's a leaf shot at 130mm and a...

I know there are other addicted myspace peeps like me out there on DVX. Be my movies friend! http://www.myspace.com/mysilentsadness

Anyone know how they created that effect where the creepy ghost girl is speedily climbing up the well at the end of the Ring 2. It looks almost like old school stop motion, where they shot it frame by frame. But I doubt they took the time to do that, so it must have been a post effect, right?

Yay...just pre ordered mine! With the 18-135mm nikkor. I'm thinking of getting into portraiture. I am a fairly good DP and a graphic designer. Anyone have any suggestions for a good book that will expand my knowledge of still portraits?

So I'm in the back of Lucas Editorial at USC setting up user accounts for the next semesters students to edit with when I hear a faint knock on the door (It's hard to hear over an xserve, 2 Lanshares, and 20 computers fans whaling at you). I go to get the door and see Tim Robbins, someone I...

This sucks man, taken too soon! A fine actor: http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/15/kirby.obit.ap/index.html

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