Entries by Kyle

New Reel Posted

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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

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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 […]

Apple and Arrogance

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I’m happy to hear that new MacBooks will have Firewire ports. It was a dumb idea to get rid of them in the first place, and Apple seems to have listened to its customers in this case. A concerned customer emailed Steve Jobs last year about the lack of Firewire in the MacBook, and Jobs […]

BAM and the Em Dash

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Yes, I know BAM and the Em Dash sounds like a great title for a film, but this post is going to take a break from Obscure Topics in Film Editing and focus on Obscure Topics in Typography. At least since I’ve lived in Brooklyn—and probably a lot longer—the Brooklyn Academy of Music has used […]

An Update on my 3D Bolex Progress

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Since I last posted about my Bolex Stereo system, I’ve made a bit of progress getting the whole thing together. I bought an old 16mm projector on E-Bay, which doesn’t quite have the right size lens mount, but the stereo lens fits inside, so I’m sure I can improvise something to make it a snug […]

Panasonic Press Release About Cheech & Chong Movie

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The Cheech & Chong concert movie is going very, very well. I recently came across a press release that Panasonic put out about our use of the new 3700 P2 cameras. My name is mentioned briefly at the end. Above is one of the photos included in the story taken during Cheech’s performance of “Earache […]

Perhaps I Was a Bit Ambitious

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The movie I’m working on now involves two shows each running 5 simultaneous 1080p angles. The source material is AVC-Intra shot with 3700 Varicams. When I brought the footage into FCP, I converted to ProRes HQ because I thought our system could handle it. We bought a Caldigit HD Element just for this movie, and […]

Spanned P2 Clips with Timecode Past Midnight

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So one of those things that doesn’t come up much, but is really important, is the prohibition against letting timecode go past midnight. Once it gets past 23:59:59:23 (or 29 or 24 depending on your timebase) it goes to 00:00:00:00. If that happens, how does your timecode-based editing system know that the footage with lower […]