I had someone ask me the other day what exactly is in my edit suite. He’s looking for a new console and wondered what exactly I had in there and more importantly, why did I have those items in there.
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Walter Biscardi
Note: part of this entry appeared previously as a blog on the creativecow.net website. Let’s just say my opinions have been changed….. Why did I purchase this? I took delivery of the 16GB Wi-Fi Apple iPad in April. No, I did not wait in line, I took the leisurely deliver it to my front door method. I [...]
On Friday I was informed by the contractor that we have our building permits!! Woo hoo! That was the last piece of business required to get our bank loan. Yes, we had to get permits BEFORE we even own the land. That’s back assward if you ask me, but that’s how we had to do [...]
I received and installed the Adobe CS5 Production Package this week and today discovered that After Effects is pretty screwed up. Well, I take that back. The application seems to operate, just LAUNCHING it is screwed up. See normally on a Mac, you just double click the application icon to launch an app. Not with [...]
Just a note to remind all of you out there, make time for fun every day. Take a few minutes every hour or so, step away from your desk, stand up, walk around. Take a quick break. Then at least once a day, do something fun! I have a great dog in the office and [...]
We’re getting closer and closer to finishing up the film. Ron Anderson did a tremendous job with the Color Grade, particularly some really REALLY difficult scenes. He just shows how far I still have to go as a Colorist. I’m pretty good, but man, nothing compares to 30 years of experience doing nothing but color. [...]
Happy to report that the architect drawings are done and we’ll be getting our building permits in order this week. Still waiting on a closing date from the bank but everything is coming together nicely. Now for those of you out there thinking about building a new place or renovating a space, know that you [...]
This is a perfect example of someone who does not have the correct Final Cut Pro configuration or the proper workflow. http://ace-filmeditors.blogspot.com/2010/05/end-of-final-cut-for-me.html Notice he’s an ACE editor so this shows that even the professional editors don’t always get it right for whatever reason. My feeling is that his system is simply not configured properly for [...]
Last week there was a thread in the Creativecow.net Apple Color forum asking about the Color Preview Window. You know that little video window that appears on the same screen as the scopes? Anyway, this person was asking if we all noticed that the Preview window can show a different image than the Final Cut [...]
Had a great visit from Bram and Johan yesterday to calibrate my FSI monitors and during lunch Bram explained to me a calibration policy I didn’t know about. All owners of FSI monitors can have their monitors calibrated free of charge by just shipping them back to Flanders. The owner pays shipping both ways, the [...]