Dumbworld: A Sacramento Based Blog on Entertainment, Media and Art

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.

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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I worked on an ultra low budget independent feature, a couple of years ago, and heard two comments that will stay with me forever.

1) “If you want to learn how to make a movie, watch me.”

2) “We’ll fix it in post.”

Both comments came from the same person.  To make a long story short, I guess I did learn how to make a movie by watching this person, but more valuable were all the things I learned not to do.

Here is an old article from Filmmaker Magazine’s archives on why you shouldn’t count on fixing things in post.