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Could Your Film Survive The Sony Warehouse Fire?

By on August 22, 2011 in HD in post, Web/Tech, WTF

After reading the past blog on the Sony fire, film maker pal Simon Cox commented on Facebook ‘Thank god they didn’t hold the masters…’ And I have to admit it stopped me dead in my tracks. The riots REALLY served to highlight just how quickly one could loose everything. Computers and technology can always be [...]

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Art or exploitation? Reportage or opinion? Right or wrong?

Art or exploitation? Reportage or opinion? Right or wrong?

By on March 23, 2011 in DSLR, Environment, Guest Blog, HD in post, Inspiration

  Please watch the clip in HD and full screen. The past couple of weeks have really rocked the world. First a shocking earthquake, tsunami and reactor leak in Japan, and the start of a campaign in the middle east. It reminds me of the fragility of life, of how we all live within the [...]

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How secure is your data? Do film makers create more data than most others…?

How secure is your data? Do film makers create more data than most others…?

By on December 13, 2009 in HD in post, Software, Technology

It’s that time of year again, when I look to the digital assets created in the last year, and consider the data archiving needed. I know from experience the utter terror and anguish caused by a data loss or a hard drive crash – I had a bad on in the late nineties, and since [...]

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Bleeding Edge Technology…

Bleeding Edge Technology…

By on April 10, 2008 in BluRay, HD in post, Software

One of the things I have always taught on my courses is that when it comes to technology, you can’t believe anyone. Especially when it comes to new technology. This is not because experts are mistaken or wrong, it’s because everything is so untested. There simply hasn’t been enough instances of it working out in [...]

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Makining HDCam Downconvert tapes

Makining HDCam Downconvert tapes

By on February 25, 2008 in HD in post, Post Production

I spent most of yesterday working with an editor friend of mine, Laura Kettle, in a large post production facility in West London. We had a number of jobs to do on ‘Gone Fishing’, first of which, was re-laying the newly mixed soundtrack onto 2 HDCamSR tapes. After some messing around we managed this fairly [...]

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DIGITAL DISASTER!

DIGITAL DISASTER!

By on February 18, 2008 in HD in post, Shooting

It’s a disaster… but not for us. My good friend and director, Johnny Newman, shot a film (At Home With The Finkels) late last year using the Viper Camera – a high end HD format that records data to drives and not to tape (or obviously film). That means there is no tape or film [...]

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Making HD BluRay at Home and FAT32

Making HD BluRay at Home and FAT32

By on February 1, 2008 in BluRay, HD in post, Software

So I have now committed to BluRay (did they not realise that if you are not clear when you say BluRay it sounds like you say Blurry, not to mention Blurry is what my spell checker wants to change it to!) after several studios jumped camp and ditched HD DVD. The word from up top [...]

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HD Sound Encoding

HD Sound Encoding

By on January 20, 2008 in BluRay, HD in post, Sound

I am now working out how to make an HD DVD or BluRay disk for Gone Fishing, so I can show it on courses and at home in HD – and also, send it off to festivals (if they start to move in the ‘domestic HD delivery format’ direction). While the difference between DVD and [...]

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The HD Rabbit Hole Goes Deeper…

The HD Rabbit Hole Goes Deeper…

By on January 1, 2008 in BluRay, DVD, HD in post

One of the reasons I went for HD DVD over BluRay was that I knew that it was much closer to DVD than BluRay is, on a purely technical and mastering level. After doing some poking around, I discovered something rather cool – it’s possible to master an HD DVD onto a normal DVD. This [...]

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Bringing it all together…

Bringing it all together…

By on December 20, 2007 in HD in post, Post Production, SFX

I have been frantically dashing around, making sure everything is ready for the final picture conform / picture grade tomorrow at Midnight Transfer. Thankfully I have been pretty organised through the whole process, so while it’s a long haul, so far there have been very few unforeseen hitches. Let’s hope it stays that way. (pictured [...]

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HD DVD acid test

HD DVD acid test

By on December 15, 2007 in BluRay, HD in post

A few days ago I took delivery of a Toshiba HD-EP30 HD DVD player so that I can get my head around HD in the home. I have a projector that I use on my courses, and it’s quite new, claiming to handle up to 1080P full HD. The projector, a Panasonic one, was quite [...]

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SUMMER SCARS, DVCProHD Feature In Post…

SUMMER SCARS, DVCProHD Feature In Post…

By on March 30, 2007 in HD in post

I am just helping a good friend of mine complete his fourth feature film, Summer Scars, shot on DVCProHD Vericam. It looks terrific and it’s now a very tight drama, but two things have resonated while working through these final technical stages.Next First, Julian, the director, has worked his way through three editors in order [...]

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