I met Todd through another filmmaker friend, Ajit Anthony Prem. Our brief introduction left an impression on him…he casted me to play a bruiser in his newest film Southland of the Heart. I accepted and was part of magic that day. Not the kind of magic that I create but the magic of a crew [...]

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Normalization…for the longest time I couldn’t figure out exactly what it did. I had audio geeks tell me to normalize everything and I’d ask, “what does it do?” The answer I always got was always to technical and in terms I couldn’t understand. I think like a video editor, so I needed it explained to [...]

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As an independent filmmaker one of the hardest things to do is get a great score for a project. If you use Soundtrack Pro you cycle through the amazing tracks and have a difficult time finding one that you haven’t used on numerous occasions, or heard everywhere on the net or local TV. That is [...]

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Final Cut Pro Guru Larry Jordan walks us through a demo of Sonicfire Pro 5. I want more after watching this. Cool app.

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I came across Harvey Robinson’s path through the .matrix Project and was wowed by the beautiful storytelling that he presents in his videos. Monkeywhale is not just Harvey but a collaboration of artists that formed a production company in Greensboro, NC. He is a machine when it comes to creating and I for one can [...]

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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] This is how I would’ve handled being yelled at. I’m an agitator, if someone is yelling at me crazily I’ll only agitate that person till they go nuts. Now if I did something wrong, you would only have to tell me once and I’d make sure it would [...]

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This blog is a giant bulletin board for my mind. I used this filter before but forgot where it was located in Soundtrack Pro. So the web can reap the benefits of my confused brain. I have two sources of audio that I want to mix together and throw a phone effect filter on it [...]

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I met Eric on the set of “Dog’s of Chinatown” and immediately became friends with him. This will be a fun conversation. He is multi-talented, he acts, writes, directs, builds websites and let’s not forget the amazing stunts he and his fellow stunt people perform in videos from short form to feature length. If you [...]

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Thanks Joe and Seth I had a blast talking with you. If you have never seen Take Me Back visit the site and experience a pleasant surprise of filmmaking. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Click the blue play button above to play the audio

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I stumbled across “Take Me Back” the series when I was looking for quality videos on Vimeo and fell in love with everything about it. The cinematography, the pacing, the acting, the writing, and the music was phenomenal. The thing that caught my eye was the design of the website. I’m still writing and planning [...]

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