The director and assistant editor of the upcoming
film Together Again for the First Time explain how
they used an iPod and Final Cut Pro for video playback during
production of the indie feature. While not achieving TRUE dailies,
their new-found continuity tool Did change the entire creative
process.
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LEFT: Brandon Christensen, director of photography
(standing, center) and Jeff Parkin, director (leaning, right), view
downconverted footage on a laptop in the production's "video village"
area.
ABOVE: Parkin checks his updated iPod between takes.
Geist, assistant editor, views downconverted footage on his laptop from the custom media cart he created and called "capture camp."
Comments (3) for "Lights, Camera, iPod"
1.
Nice work Geist
Posted by Vic on Wednesday, April 4, 2007 @ 04:35 PM
2.
The author used "digital-to-analog converter" in several places where it should have read "analog-to-digital converter". (I'm just having a Monk moment.)
Posted by Rob on Thursday, April 5, 2007 @ 11:27 AM
3.
very interesting article... one point i'd like to pass along to the authors (not sure how)... QuickTime, and the programs that call it, including iTunes, is notoriously slow in converting video to the ipod format... there are a number of other solutions built on the open source ffmpeg project... the best of these (and i have no association) is VisualHub from Techspansion... this is an amazing piece of software for under $30, that will convert almost any video format to any other, and can be optimized to use multiple cores and multiple processors, and spread processing across multiple computers using xgrid... plus the developer is amazingly responsive to tech requests... worth checking out!
Posted by Schnauzer Logic on Saturday, April 21, 2007 @ 12:47 PM
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