Author: Jeremy

  • 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 6Gb/s 7200rpm drives (four of them) that I bought…

  • 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 always tiring, it is invigorating and motivating and I am already missing it badly…

  • Blackmagic Cinema Camera RAW

    Blackmagic Cinema Camera RAW

    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.

  • 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 own multiple successful campaigns, as well as the data from hundreds of others,…

  • Transferring Video Files

    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.