Bertini is a veteran sound editor/mixer of numerous high-profile television shows, including all six seasons of HBO’s Sex In The City and the CW Network’s Life Is Wild. His specialty is automated dialogue replacement (ADR) and creating original sound effects.... »
Strauss is now editing a number of high-definition videos, using a home-made PC with dual Intel Xeon (eight cores) processors. He uses the latest version (4.6) of Thomson Grass Valley Edius Broadcast editing software, with its real-time processing and JPEG 2000 codec.... »
Shot mostly handheld with two JVC GY-HD250U HD camcorders, the movie features an impressive cast and a crazy plot about doing what it takes to become U.S. president.... »
Director/producer/cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld took to the stage at NAB to discuss the changing nature of television and film, the visual style he developed with the Coen borthers on Blood Simple, producing Pushing Daisies and why the Internet will lead to the destruction of democractic society. ... »
The traditional ad is not dying, but becoming less potent. This means everyone needs to create alternate creative outlets and revenue streams. So forging contacts in new forms of media, being open to working across multiple media platforms, and being open to collaborating with brands to create original music is key.... »
Cook used the Holophone H3-D Surround microphone for on-location sound effects work in remote parts of Australia. The H3-D provides 3-D surround audio via six discrete channels from a single unit with no external mixing or signal manipulation needed.... »
James Haygood got his big break back in the mid-1980s, when he connected with a young music-video director named David Fincher. More recently, he just worked as co-editor (with Spike Jonze regular Eric Zumbrunnen) on Where the Wild Things Are, and took up residence at Union in Santa Monica, CA, where he just finished spots for PlayStation MLB and Range Rover. Read about his career path, storytelling in 30 seconds (or less), and what he really thinks of Final Cut Pro.... »
Not one to stand on ceremony, Jimmy Hanks is constantly involved in a number of projects—from small independent features to big-budget productions—and says that the new generation of compact HD cameras from Canon helps him affordably bring ideas to the screen. “There’s no reason not to use these cameras,” he said. “Instead of sitting around, people should be out shooting.”... »
A self-described "video naysayer," Walt Lloyd has shot a wide range of features, from Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape to Robert Altman's Short Cuts and Jieho Lee's recently released The Air I Breathe.... »
For Tim Alexander, visual effects supervisor at ILM, The Spiderwick Chronicles marked a career high – the biggest and most complicated film he has supervised so far, with the largest crew, the most creature animation, and a director, Mark Waters, who had not worked on a visual effects film before.... »
Barber used a Sony F23 camera to shoot all of the live action (day and night scenes) for the recent two-hour NBC television movie Knight Rider, recording footage to a Sony HDCAM SR deck.... »
