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The recently released DataTale SMART 4-bay Thunderbolt RAID caught my attention as an affordable Thunderbolt storage unit for video editing so I contacted Oyen Digital here in the Twin Cities and they sent over a unit for me to review*. I supplied my own 2TB Toshiba 6Gb/s 7200rpm drives (four of them) that I bought…
Six days in Park City at Sundance 2013. Six days of watching movies, attending meetings, riding buses, walking on ice, eating very randomly, drinking at parties, avoiding celebrity-seekers, snowboarding, and a little sleeping are finally done and while the journey is always tiring, it is invigorating and motivating and I am already missing it badly just two days after returning. Being immersed in such a movie-loving-and-making environment induces horrible withdrawal, like you’ve been denied your coffee fix suddenly and without warning. But the people you meet! The movies you see! It’ll get you going for the coming year, no doubt…
The guys from SlashCam.de have posted some Blackmagic Cinema Camera frames from a shoot, including an original CinemaDNG frame. I decided to take it into Lightroom 4.2 (LR) and have a look myself at the detail and range.
Join me to discuss the state of crowdfunding your movie projects at the 2012 Flyway Film Festival this weekend, on Saturday, October 20th. I’ll be joined by Slamdance co-founder Paul Rachman and consulting filmmaker Lucas McNelly. Armed with the data from our own multiple successful campaigns, as well as the data from hundreds of others,…
I’ve had a few requests lately to send very large video files to clients online. If this is a new world for you, here’s why sending a portable hard drive might be more efficient.
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Shazam Bugs Your Life
I recently saw the new Star Trek movie with my wife (we enjoyed it quite a bit) and in the pre-movie advertising there was an advert with a Shazam logo on it and if you tagged the ad audio using your Shazam app it would hook you up to a store site so you could directly buy the stuff shown within the ad.
As an indie filmmaker, this immediately intrigued me: how could I put this to use in marketing my film projects? So when I got home I did some research. And was shocked by Shazam’s big-brother implications.
Did you know that the newest version of Shazam constantly monitors your surroundings?
According to them, they only “sample” brief moments of your auditory life to see what “might” match up and you have to opt-in to this intrusion, but I have no recollection whatsoever about making the choice to click on any option to constantly monitor my life.
And as we’ve seen with sites like Facebook (mentioned in The Atlantic article), once it amasses enough users and business comes calling, well, kiss your privacy goodbye.
No sir, I don’t like it. But it did give me an idea…