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Anyone else curious when Filemaker Pro 13 will be released?
This spreadsheet is the sort of thing I’ve done in order to guess the release date of a piece of software or hardware I’m waiting to buy. Rachel thought it was funny and encouraged me to post it here...
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Trailer for Spike Jonze film “Her” has been released
I spent the last year-and-a-half working on this film and, upon request, attempting to give spoiler-free explanations of its content to friends and relatives. Now I’m freed from that responsibility1 by...
View ArticleNow working on — We Are Men
I’m now working as assistant editor on the CBS half-hour comedy We Are Men, which will air this fall. The editorial team is comprised mostly of veterans from the film The Man with the Iron Fists. If...
View Articlea fantastic ftp client for mac is 50%-off for another 12 hours or so –...
Looks like my favorite ftp client for mac is 50%-off for a day, on their website and in the mac app store (and app store purchases can be used on all your computers). If you don’t have it, I wouldn’t...
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Davinci Resolve 10 public beta is nifty
I graded1 a short documentary in Davinci Resolve 10 public beta yesterday, and figure I’d share a couple of observations in case they help others. A node tree in DaVinci Resolve. In this example, node...
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football, comedy, sex, drugs, swearing, and a monkey
Just a few weeks ago I finished working as assistant editor on the pilot episode of The Rebels, and now Amazon has put it up for free viewing as part of their new batch of pilots. If you like football,...
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How to rank the latests slate of Amazon pilots?
2/27 stars, votes, and imdb rating of Amazon’s 2014 pilotsIt’s nearing the end of the first month of Amazon’s 2014 pilot season. Amazon, being a company of the digital age, posts all the pilot episodes...
View ArticleWhat’s likely coming in the next GoPro (Hero 4) – 4k 30fps, 2k 120fps!
If the specs for the next version of the system-on-a-chip system used in the GoPro Hero 3 are any indication, the next GoPro is going to have some ridiculous specs. 4k-resolution at 30...
View ArticleAn ffmpeg recipe to concatenate multiple quicktime files and convert to h264
If you ever find yourself with a set of same-as-source quicktime files that have been exported from Media Composer, one per reel of a film… –and you need to output a single h264 file of the film to...
View ArticleFantastic new Star Wars trailer
Kudos to the VFX artist behind this new Star Wars Trailer. WPvideo 1.10
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Simple workaround for Media Composer’s ADM_COREAUDIO_UNDERRUN error
Every once in a while I’d sit down at my editing system, would open a clip in the source window, would hit play, and would be presented instantly with a little popup modal dialogue window displaying...
View ArticleConverting mkv, mpeg-2, anything from disc, to DnxHD or Prores using ffmpeg
Let’s suppose, for the sake of argument, that you’ve been asked by a director to cut his directing reel. He hands you a DVD and a Blu-ray and asks you to grab clips from them. There are three problems...
View ArticleGetting OS X Spotlight to index NTFS drives
I had a need to select all quicktime files on an NTFS drive to open in a particular application (MetaCheater v2.0, if you must know), and the built-in file search feature in OS X called “Spotlight”...
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Sign of the times – firmware updates for cars and pacemakers
Retrieving the odometer reading using a car iphone app. The firmware update message that appeared on my friend’s car’s display last night as we headed out on an errand. Yesterday I ran into 3 signs...
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A workaround to keep Apple Compressor from transforming DnxHD quicktimes into...
If an DNxHD quicktime file (reference or self contained) contains only a single video track, it will turn into a dark-red freeze-frame when run through Apple Compressor. If it doesn’t, then bully for...
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