I had a chance to talk with William “Billy” Goldenberg who won the Academy Award last year for editing Argo. He also cut Zero Dark Thirty and Transformers to name a few. We discussed his techniques for cutting real world event films, apprenticing with Steven Spielberg's [...]
George Clinton, of Parliament Funkadelic fame, is certainly the man about town these days. He's got a new book out and he's making the rounds with a re-mixed version of his 20-year-old HBO special Cosmic Slop . I had a chance to catch up with [...]
I directed this financial segment with Gene Simmons for Yahoo! Studios as part of my training with Yahoo! Senior Director/TD Erin Bigelow. Gene was direct, pompous, funny and truly contraversial….everything you would expect from the demon of debauchery selling his new business book: Me, Inc. After [...]
The NAB show floor opened today and approximately 90,000 attendees clammored to discover the new toys, technologies and services offered by the world's best television related companies. I scouted for editing and live streaming goodies and scheduled some key interviews for Wednesday to stream live. [...]
Congratulations to Edward Pickart of Motion Post TV Chicago and Paul Galando, New York University, NYC for winning the Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium suite of software. Thank you both for being a part of MULTICAMp and thanks to ADOBE for your generous prizes [...]
It was a real honor to get a call from Adobe's Evangelist Dave Helmly asking to adopt my book Mastering Multicamera Techniques (Focal Press) for the Adobe World Wide Field Team. Of course I said yes...they bought 50 copies! The team uses the book and [...]
Talk about convergence! This is the intersection of technology and art: Big Brother house meets thriller meets real time drama. A new multicamera storytelling format has been developed with a format called Bxx. Viewers can watch the action unfold from 16 cameras placed around the [...]
TODAY: Wednesday, May 2nd at 1pm EST Friends- I am providing livestream production services for a special press conference featuring Rick Ross live from New York City - It is powered by Telestream's Wirecast on the new YouTube Live Channel for The Warner Sound. http://youtu.be/cF-NDs6xaoY [...]
Today's live show at 3:30PM PST (6:30 PM EST) is our last program from NAB. Thanks to everyone who helped make this an incredible experience!... Today's guests include: Creative Cow Tech Guru Bob Zelin, Bryce Button-AJA, Colorist Alexis Van Hurkman, AutoDesk's Smoke on Mac, Avid, NVIDIA, [...]
Today's live show at 3:30PM PST (6:30 PM EST) guests include: Al Caudullo- 3D editing with Edius, Walter Biscardi-editor of Good Eats, Bruce Sharpe-Singulars Software/PluralEyes, Phillip Nelson- NewTek Tricaster, Jose Burgos- All Mobile Video and Virtual Sets, Jenna Rappolt-Noyes- Tiffen. Join the conversation: #ASKNAB watch here: [...]
