Final Cut Producer

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 [...]

Why? Can anyone give me a reason why capturing HDV always crashes the log and capture and the timecode breaks so easily. The only setting that I can use without any worries is the Apple Intermediate Codec. The problem with that codec is the same as the HDV, it breaks the video [...]

The video card I’m looking at is the Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition. Here is some information that worries me this card is not compatible to my G5.

Exclusively for PCI Express® based PowerMac G5 systems
Feel the power of ATI’s world class Radeon™ X1900 G5 Mac® Edition. Designed exclusively for PCI Express-based Power Mac® G5 [...]

My god this stinking saga continues. I bought an ATI X800 Mac Edition Video Card on ebay. I installed it and it sounded like my computer was ready to take off. Listen.

Yeah it’s an upgrade if I’m working with graphics but forget about me doing any more ADR from my home office [...]

I have a Canon HV20 and I want to put my Shockmount on it. The only thing the Shockmount base is too big and can’t fit on the camera’s adapter shoe. Does anyone know if there is a shockmount that will fit the Canon HV20.
Here is the HV20 Advanced Accessory Shoe

The butt of [...]

I don’t know why these hard drives are formatted like this but it is killing me. My brother ordered a 1TB Western Digital My Book external hard drive for The DotMatrix Project, and it came formatted as a MS-DOS (FAT) or better yet a FAT32. FAT32 is formatted so Mac and PC can [...]

I bought my Macbook Pro last year and it came with Tiger installed on it. One of the first things I did was open up Front Row and test the cool new feature with the Apple Remote. To be honest I’ve had no use for the remote until tomorrow when I’m going to [...]

For the past couple of months I’ve been searching for the right hard drive setup for our next feature film, which has something to do with zombies and soldiers and civil war. Pretty cool script. We begin shooting around May 17th and it is up to me to find a RAID system for [...]

I received an email from Kim in the Balkins and I can’t help her cause I’ve stayed as far away as I could from the AVCHD hard drive camcorders. Here is her issue…

I am using the Sony HDR-SR1 camera with FCP 6.0.2 on a MacBook Pro with upgraded ram. I am not having [...]

I’m on set and my job is to archive footage and to organize the shots in each scene. That is easy and moving along well. When I got asked to put together a cool background to play on a HDTV in a scene. Well I can’t, because Motion is acting up and [...]