Category Archives: Technical Mumbo Jumbo
The Digital Bolex: The 1st Affordable Digital Cinema Camera
I want one! To support the making of this digital cinema camera, please visit Digital Bolex’s Kickstarter page!
T3i’s Digital Zoom = The Opposite of What You’d Think
WARNING: This article is for digital cinematographers/filmmakers (or aspiring ones). Anybody else will just be bored to death by the technical mumbo jumbo. NOTE: The Canon T3i, at this time is the only Canon DSLR with this feature. The 60D had something kind of like this but far inferior. So this one feature makes the […]
To X or not to X? (Final Cut Pro X that is…)
I’ve been using Final Cut Pro to edit video since 2006 when I bought my first Mac, a PowerMac G5 (the aluminum tower that looks practically identical to the current Mac Pro, except it had a Power PC dual-core processor!). So you can imagine that since Apple announced that Final Cut Pro was completely re-written […]
Real Life Can Look Like the Movies
On Monday (June 20,2011), I went to the Provo, Utah Airport and filmed the first commercial flight ever to land in Provo. Mayor John Curtis, Miss Provo and her runner-ups, and the Vice-President of Customer Service for Frontier Airlines were all in attendance. Inspired by Michael Bay’s filmmaking style, I decided to release two cuts […]
Sydney Sorenson Utah Jazz Dancer – Red Cross Japan Relief Commercial
For a while now, I’ve been wanting to do something to help the Japan relief effort. The Red Cross definitely needs all the help it can get. The tsunami in Japan was one of the worst natural disasters ever, and it will take quite a while to get Japan back on its feet. Please help […]
5D Mark 3 …. new features? Philip Bloom speaks
Among the many cool opportunities I had this week at NAB 2011 (btw, if you don’t know what NAB is, it is the largest convention of video professionals in the world), was a chance to meet the one and only Philip Bloom (basically we DSLR filmmakers worship the ground he walks on, see my previous […]
Either You’re In or You’re In the Way
I just finished reading the amazing true story of how twin brothers Noah and Logan Miller, who had never made a film before, managed to make a a feature film with an all-star cast including Ed Harris, Brad Dourif, and Robert Forster (all Academy Award nominated actors). They grew up poor in Northern California, and […]
Havaianas Soul Collection at Huntington Beach [Canon 5D, L Glass & Tascam DR-100]
I did this promotional video for Havaianas USA, at the only Havaianas store in America, in Huntington Beach, CA. They just launched their new closed-toe collection, called the “Soul Collection.” I filmed it on a 5D Mark II, with a 24-105 f/4L IS lens. This lens turned out to be perfect for shooting in the […]
One-Man Multi-Cam Shoot! (ala 5D, 60D, + Tascam DR-100)
On Thursday, I was down in Las Vegas filming a Caribbean cooking show (the 12th cooking show I’ve filmed so far!). I was able to pull off what normally be should be done by at least three people: a 2-camera, dual-system shoot. (Dual-system is where audio is recorded to a separate system, not to the […]
New DSLR Announcement
There’s a new video DSLR on the horizon, and it’s got my name on it…literally! No, actually my brother Miles just made this gnarly image in Photoshop for me. Creativity runs in the family. (Incidentally, Miles appears in my Havaianas short, at 0:56 and 2:25. He was living in Huntington Beach at the time, and he’s […]
