Final Cut Producer

From Dennis Ruel and in association with The Stunt People comes a very cool action packed sci fi thriller.

It’s back and this time it’s personal. I guess everytime is personal but this one goes back to my home town of Montclair, New Jersey. Philippa and I graduated from Montclair High School back in 92. We weren’t close friends back then, we were aware of each other and had our own [...]

A fun action packed short film from Eric Jacobus and The Stuntpeople. With characters from the feature film Contour. Enjoy!

This is not a question for anyone that uses Final Cut Pro or even a MAC. That is a question that is being debated at a small college. I’m not going to use names here, but a colleague of mine emailed me asking for help in pointing the administration in the right direction. [...]

Before I began shooting behind the scenes for Dogs of Chinatown I bought 50 JVC MiniDV Tapes ( MDV60DU ). I shot over 36 hours of behind the scenes and I had trouble from tape one. Never experiencing HDV before the shoot I had nothing to base this on. It was the [...]

If I found this pencil I would’ve whooped some ass in pencil fighting. That just shows where my mind was when I was a kid. I actually sawed of the end of a shovel and my day drilled the center hollow and placed led in the middle. We shaved and sanded it [...]

In August, Blake, Micah and I shot Project Tritium for the dotmatrix project at The Green Burro downtown Greensboro. We set up three 1k lowell lights and did some hard lighting and shot the song at a high shutter speed on 2 Panasonic HVX200s and a Canon HV20. Had to color correct [...]

This was a real pain to learn. I hope this helps many of you DVD Authors that have a laptop and a desktop. Good luck!
How to Encode Faster in Compressor with Apple Qmaster from Andy Coon on Vimeo.

We love the web and are using it to bring you to the party. Over at All Aces Media we are streaming the party tonight at 7:30 pm for the premiere for Dogs of Chinatown for the crew and actors who couldn’t make it. You are welcome to the show too.

Not happening! Tomorrow I’m going to shoot the audience for the private screening for Dogs of Chinatown. Only problem is I can’t figure out how to capture directly to my computer with a firewire connection to my camera. I can do it with no problem if I use DV-NTSC and capture in [...]