I don’t know what this is about, but when I watch 16:9 videos on YouTube, I have 50 pixels of black on either side of the video. You get the right aspect ratio if you switch to a smaller player by clicking on the –><– button on the upper right, but then the video is […]
My mother bought me this $60 used purple foam desk chair my freshman year of college, and I kept it for 10 years. It was quite comfortable, but the springs were so worn out that it was almost impossible to keep it level. So I recently went on a quest to find a replacement that […]
Traditionally, film editing has 3 distinct phases. You cut the picture. Then you cut & mix the sound. Then you “finish” by cutting the negative or doing an online edit. These days a lot of that work is combined. Sometimes your edit is actually at full resolution, so an online isn’t strictly necessary. Sometimes your […]
I recently upgraded my editing monitor, since the 13″ Sylvania I bought for $50 in 2002 really wasn’t cutting it anymore. I’d been planning it for years, but since I edit outside of my office so often, I was putting it off until a job came along to will help me pay for it. That […]
Mike Judge has a new movie coming out this weekend, and Miramax (yes, they still exist and make movies) has done a pretty large ad buy on tv shows and websites that I frequent. Based on the advertising, the movie looks suspect, but so did Office Space, and we all know how that turned out. […]
This is a collection of YouTube videos that highlight projects I’ve worked on in the past few years, as an editor, trailer editor, assistant editor, post supervisor, title designer, or even boom operator. Enjoy.
I’ve been getting a lot of paying gigs lately, but it’s no excuse for taking almost a year to finish the 2nd episode of Time Travellin’. In the past few weeks I’ve made some really good progress. I’m going for a much more complicated style this time around, including actual movement, and full bodies. Here’s […]
I make a few bucks here and there from YouTube, but as I was looking at my stats recently I decided to calculate how many impressions I would need in order to live solely off YouTube income. My current eCPM for videos is $0.76, meaning on average for every 1000 impressions I’m earning $0.76, or […]
This is a short video I made in 2002 for a class called “Life Stories.” I thought it was lost, but I found it on a badly labeled tape today. It’s mostly of interest as a companion piece to The Epic Tale of Kalesius and Clotho (which I was shooting at the same time) and […]
