Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

The First Movie Shot on the iPhone4?

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

A USC cinema graduate student from Sacramento, has shot the first movie on the iPhone4 and has got some buzz with some help from Twitter.  Good Idea.  When the iPad gets a camera, I am shooting the first movie with it.  Probably not, but it will be worth some buzz.

A week after the iPhone4 was released, a USC cinema graduate student from Sacramento is making news online and with Mac World movers and shakers.

via News10.net

See the iPhone4 movie, Apple of My Eye, shot in 48 hours on vimeo.

Sacramento Video Industry Professionals Meeting

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

The next Sacramento VIP (a Final Cut Pro User Group) meeting is Wednesday May 26th at Peppers.TV.  The topics are Web Compression with Wil Wells, DVD Authoring, with Rich Beckermeyer, and Vendors Corner with Jim Tierney, from Digital Anarchy.  Every person who attends will get a free cd download from royaltyfreemusiclibrary.com.

Free Webinars on Shooting Video on a DSLR

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

If you haven’t checked out a New Media Webinar you really should.  Lots of up to date information from industry professionals, they give away free stuff, and best of all the webinars are free (as long as you catch them live).

On June 17th they are having a free webinar on using a DSLR like a pro (Also, check out their webinar on DSLR post-production workflow):

Peter Cote, host of “The DSLR Show“, will identify the limitations of DSLRs as a filmmaking tool and how to work around them to make your project look and feel like it was produced by Hollywood.

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DSLR Show - Rolling Shutter - Episode 4 from Conscious Minds Productions on Vimeo.

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Canon adds 24p to the 5D Mark II

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

A little late to this, but due to popular demand, Canon is adding 24p to the 5D.  via ProLost. And in related news, until the end of March, you can get one from Amazon with 0% interest, if you pay it off in 12 months (monthly payments required).  See their site for the small print.

Free Webinar on Video Compression Recipes

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Looking back at some of my videos on the web, they just don’t look as good as I would like them to look, so I am going to do the Center for New Media Studies Free Webinar on Video Compression.

Below is a preview of the webinar

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