Entries by Kyle

How to Prepare a Film For the Sound Department

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 […]

12-bit Color?

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 […]

The Ain’t It Cool News Quote Con

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. […]

Things I’ve Done

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.

Hard At Work

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 […]

Living Off YouTube

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 […]

In My Room

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 […]

New Reel Posted

I’ve updated my reel to reflect some of the great projects I’ve worked on in the past several months. Take a look, tell your friends. Watch in HD

Blu Ray Gets Worse

Don’t get me wrong. I love Blu Ray in concept. But there are some real problems, and most of them come from AACS and the studios’ RIAA-style campaign to make Blu-Ray a closed system. I’ve gone over my problems with AACS licensing fees in the past but today I learned that AACS is requiring Blu-Ray […]