Category: News
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Local filmmaking podcast
For over a year I’ve had this idea to do a local/regional podcast about the filmmaking ecosystem and scene here in the Midwest (the north). Finally I just decided to create the first episode and put it out in the world. You can check it a out over at Film45 and on iTunes. We are…
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3 Reasons Your Indie Film Just Got More Expensive
Attention indie filmmakers: Your budget isn’t nearly big enough and it just got a lot harder to get into iTunes. Why? Accessibility, language, and rating requirements.
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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…
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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,…
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Sony FS100 Review
The Super-35mm sensor Sony FS100 video camera has been out on the market for several weeks now and yet there still seems to be confusion and a lack of good hands-on material. Probably because those that have the camera are having so much fun shooting with it that they haven’t made time to sit down…
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FCPX and XDCAM Workflow
Did you jump right in and download Final Cut Pro X today? Did you get your mind readjusted to the new editing paradigm? Did you freak out when you couldn’t get your XDCAM footage into FCPX? And then have another little freak out about what you had done when you saw the unrelenting tweet stream?! Relax. Keep…