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Beam Me Up Scottie: Transporter Effect with Final Cut Pro and Motion 4

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:10:02 +0000

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via Genius DV

Sac Music Seen Winner Best of Program from 2010 Sacramento International Film and Music Festival

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:59:04 +0000

Zoo Human Project’s “NWT” dir by Scott Howe

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A Very Quiet National Dumbworld Day at Home with the Family

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:12:45 +0000

This year we decided that we would hide out at home and celebrate National Dumbworld Day quietly, instead of braving the the long lines at bars and craziness that such a day usually causes. However you celebrated it, we hope that you had a good time, were safe and remember the real reason why we celebrate.

If Cartoons Were Real

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:07:12 +0000

If you aren’t familiar with Sacramento area Smosh you should check them out. They are doing a lot of things right.

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Kitchen Raps!!!! And They Get Their Fiber Son.

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:29:18 +0000

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Kitchen Raps (with Random Abiladeze & Ruby Ibarra)

thanks JT!

The First Movie Shot on the iPhone4?

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:20:46 +0000

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.

Naked Filmmaking and Sacramento Filmmaker Meetup

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:31:27 +0000

I first met Mike Carroll about a year into my own attempt at becoming a filmmaker. He came out and did a story for KCRA 3 on a feature film that I was camera operator on. I never saw the story but I remember my mom calling and leaving a frantic message on my voicemail that she had seen me on the news. You have to love moms. Without my mom, I don’t think I would have any fans. But I digress.

After the feature wrapped, I came across Mike’s first “one man” film, Year. I was blown away. Here was an excellent film, shot on the same camera that I owned (a DVX-100B), on a very small budget, by one person. I emailed Mike, and he was very cool and down to earth. He was very forthcoming and helpful with advice. We stayed in touch, he sent me the script for his second feature, Nightbeats before he started shooting it, and he even had me out to shoot some behind the scenes for Nightbeats (part of the making of Nightbeats is here). Both Year and Nightbeats are available on Amazon.

Mike recently released a book on his “one man” filmmaking process called Naked Filmmaking: How To Make A Feature-Length Film – Without A Crew – For $10,000 Or Less. I haven’t got a chance to check the book out yet, but it is available on Amazon.com. See the video below for an interview with Mike about the book on KCRA Channel 3.

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Also, Mike is leading a Sacramento Filmmaker- Cameraman Meetup on Sunday, June 27th on the west steps of the capitol, with the goal of people bringing their cameras or interest in cameras and sharing information. Go to his website nakedfilmmaking.com for more information.

The First Dumbworld Peace: Watch As I Dip (2006)- Our First Video

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:31:52 +0000

I found this in a box in the back of my closet. It is an underground classic. Me and Jay shot this in front of his mom’s house in North Highlands (Sacramento) with my Sony HandyCam. The elusive Blak Rik Rubin edited it. This video started it all. Funny stuff.

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Sacramento Video Industry Professionals Meeting

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:16:29 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:08:41 +0000

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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