Posted in Camera & Eye, Editing, Film, Humor, Technology tagged film making, filmlab, lab, labs, problems, processing, trouble
One of the great unknown variables of film making are the labs that process the film negatives. In the old days of film making, only about half of all exposed rolls would ever survive the lab, nowadays most productions go through the processing without a problem.
That said, the very first ...
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Posted in Camera & Eye, Editing, Film, Life, Technology tagged 8mm, burn, burned, burned frame, Film, fire, flash frame, mussorgsky, super8, youtube
One thing I do and will miss when editing video/digital film are those flash frames. The few frames that are exposed when the camera gets up to speed, and when it stops again, the gate is checked, the mag is changed, the film is laced.
As a side line, we do ...
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Posted in Camera & Eye, Cool Sites, Editing, Film, Technology tagged app, Apple, application, deinterlace, final-cut-pro, freeware, mac, os10, os9, OSX, reinterlace, video, video freeware, video software
Just came across a one-page site by Jan E. Schotsman which offers a couple of video tools for the Mac, and at zero cost.
Fix your video
The JES Deinterlacer does a fine de-interlacing job, but despite its name, it does more. It lets you slow down the frame rate, interpolating the ...
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There is a new(ish) blog for assistant editors, aptly named Post Production Standards.
Take a look here.
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Posted in Cool Sites, Editing, Film, Technology tagged archival, footage, half price, hurry, idive, iphoto, macupdate, nifty tool, organize, promo, software, video
If you have a Mac and a video camera, there is a nifty tool called iDive (“the iPhoto of video”). Good program if you want to organize your shots, it integrates into Final Cut Pro or iMovie, lets you keep compressed versions of the footage. And it gets good to ...
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Nice French example of what can be done in post production.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4oTzOiCEpM[/youtube](via)
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