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“Cooper O’Brien and the Magical Moustache” was selected to showcase at the Geek Independent Film Festival in Alexandria, IN today. I’m so surprised it was shown on a big screen yet again. This makes the 6th public screening of the short film since its creation in 2010. I was unfortunately not able to make this […]
Extreme lack of posts in the month of September up in here, no? Crazy. September was actually a pretty crazy month. In fact, I wrote this blog entry at the end of September and I’m just now posting it. I’ve had a lot going on in terms of travel (for me, anyway). Since I had […]
My last photo shoot session was in May with Kayla and Craig, who are getting married next April. Last week’s shoot with Liz and Travis was somewhat unique in that they are already married. They went from engaged to married quicker than they had originally planned and had to skip all the wedding planning and […]
Just reading a 48 hour film project recap from a Twitter follower in another city, I realized I never posted about ours. I guess I was too wiped out from the weekend. Yeesh. Here’s a brief summary of ours. It took place July 29th-31st. We met up at Jeremiah’s cute house on the south side […]
So, a while back I discovered job-chaining in Compressor and it seriously enhanced my workday. I’ve been thinking more about this and I’m trying to understand it. When I produce a video, I need a high resolution master to archive, and then 3 versions for a media server that are half the frame rate and […]
Another installment in my tirade about useful information that is vital in creating good work for clients that wasn’t even a thought while I was in college. We learned the basics of DVD Studio Pro and how to author a DVD with menus (also in Encore, meh), but there is a lot more to DVD […]
Well, it’s the calm before the storm again. The 48 Hour Film Project kicks off next Friday in Indianapolis. In about 6 days, 21 hours and 10 minutes, I’ll be in a very crowded Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, surrounded by rapid local filmmakers, drawing a piece of paper from a fish bowl that will […]
This morning when I was making coffee in my company’s break room, I had a memory of something that happened at my very first internship in January 2007. Four years ago doesn’t seem like long, but it feels like ages ago. I was barely 20 and a sophomore in college. I was ecstatic to have […]
So a week and some days after FCPx is released and I still have noting valuable to contribute to the noise other than updating my own commentary. 1. Apple done effed this up. They tried to damage control it via Larry Jordan, I think. They should have rolled it out with more of a frame […]
With the new FCPX being released today, I guess I should be blogging about it, trying to be first at discovering some hidden bug or missing feature. However, I won’t be getting it for a while – we’ll be getting my husband a new MBP this fall and I’ll be installing it on that for […]