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...
DataTale Thunderbolt RAID Review

DataTale Thunderbolt RAID Review

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...

6 Sundance How-To Tips

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...
Blackmagic Cinema Camera RAW

Blackmagic Cinema Camera RAW

The Blackmagic Cinema Camera (BCC) is a 16mm-sized-sensor HD digital video camera that shoots RAW footage for under $4,000. Much excitement has been made about this new camera that few people have yet to use, mainly because it’ll offer 2k video in RAW mode with...
The State of Crowdfunding Panel

The State of Crowdfunding Panel

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...

Transferring Video Files

I’ve had a few requests lately to send original or very large video files to clients online and when I respond that sending a portable hard drive might be more efficient, I get confused replies. To summarize the issues, and hopefully provide you with a simple...