Shooting CII, DC, Omni Shoreham

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Same rig, different gig. The Council of Institutional Investors held their Spring conference at the Omni Shoreham in DC Monday and Tuesday. I used the same setup as the Hampton show, the only difference being glass with an even further zoom (40x). Onstage, Sheila Bair, Chairman of the FDIC. That’s my feed on the big...

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Spirits Shoot at The Gibson

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Spirits Shoot at The Gibson

Stills from the last of a four-day shoot encompassing three primary locations, The Gibson, Marvin and Blackbyrd. I coordinated this location shoot and produced the 8×30 series tied to it,  The Everyday Guide to Spirits: Tastes and Traditions (The Teaching Company).   CLICK the photo   « prev      1   2   3   4   5   6   ......

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FC Server Integration at Footage Firm

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I helped integrate Final Cut Server for Footage Firm:

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Shooting the NMCPHC Conference

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I was down in Hampton last week for the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center Conference (ahh, those government naming conventions just roll off the tongue). For the general session, held in one of the main halls of the Convention Center, I shot with the following rig: Sony DXC D50 Canon J35 EX zoom with rails Spider Pod On-cam monitor, cradle zoom and focus, other goodies Signal came from my camera, which was the only one on the shoot (steady boy!), to the CCU at the tech table. Good...

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Transferring larger files; work around (DVC Pro HD to h264 to DVC Pro NTSC for Broadcast Pix)

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For an upcoming webcast we need to get some footage of a NEES quake simulation being conducted in Japan (14 hour time difference) and have it into the Broadcast Pix Slate G 1000 switcher within a matter of hours for the show. Part of the mission of NSF’s Studio 8 is to try and figure out workarounds to traditional TV-satellite-based technology. To that end, we had to figure out a way to get the 720p DVC Pro HD footage (three different camera angles) recorded in Japan into our switcher (we’re located just outside DC) in time for the webcast. While it’s not ideal and...

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CS4 – Questions, Doubts, Impressions and Confessions of an FCP Cutter

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I’ve been a dyed-in-the-wool FCP cutter for about nine years. Until yesterday, I felt like I had good reason not to seriously consider other NLE’s. Vegas? Not powerful enough. AVID? Clunky and temperamental. Premiere? Nothing but a passing fancy to a Mac user. Then I got a load of an eye-opening demo of CS4′s Premiere by Adobe’s Dave Helmly. And you know what? I’m willing to make a pronouncement–as of today, hands down, it looks like it kicks FCP’s ass all-over the playground in terms of functionality. I don’t want to shill for Adobe, but...

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