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February 17, 2017

Why You Have to Go The Extra Mile

You know the expression "It's the little things..."? There are many variations of it but the core of the saying is that it's not always the obvious elements that an individual will notice or care about. Often times, the more insignificant, barely [...]

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February 10, 2017

Special Effects: Rotoscoping the 135% Enlarged Man in After Effects

The Setup

Our hero having just fought off a series of highly skilled ninjas, finds himself trapped as more close in on him. He backs up carefully, eyeing up each fighter and deciding which one to take on next. Before he can attack, he hits an [...]

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February 08, 2017

How to make an Awesome Video in 7 Steps

'We want a viral video.' How often has this been the starting place of a creative meeting with a new client? In the era of fast paced media and social impressions 'going viral' is the catch phrase of success. But viral-ness is like winning the [...]

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August 19, 2016

Storytelling and Your Brand: A Non-Ironic Love Story

When many companies think of their brand, product, or identity as a whole, they tend to focus on the standard business-oriented aspects of cost and profitability. Occasionally they may have a marketing department who'd question how to sell the item [...]

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April 08, 2016

How a Wordpress Vulnerability (may have) brought down a Prime Minister

You might have read recently about the Panama Papers. 11 million documents, which date back decades, that allegedly reveal a clandestine network of shady business dealings from many political and public figures. Among them is Icelandic Prime [...]

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March 16, 2016

24 Frames Per Second of Annoyance

Okay so you're an editor, right?

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May 03, 2015

Nab 2015 Recap

Another year, infinite possibilities to upgrade. This was the first year we went to NAB instead of watching from the sidelines. John, Julia, and myself flew in Sunday night and out on Thursday night. John and I did the basic exhibit package while [...]

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August 05, 2013

48hr Film 'The Noize' huge team win!

UPDATE 1: Check out the behind-the-scenes below!

This year we joined forces with Firmament Films to tell a story of mistaken identity for the Madison 48hr Film Project. Last night at the award ceremony we received many awards including:

  • Best [...]
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July 18, 2013

Using Raw on the Canon 5D MarkII (5dmii)

The people over at Magic Lantern are geniuses. They have added much-needed features to a camera that, while it captures a great image, is annoying to shoot with. Now they've stepped up their game and enabled the Canon DSLR's to shoot raw video! [...]

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January 24, 2013

Get ProRes & Other Apple Codecs Without a Pro App

We recently picked up a new Macbook Retina for editing on the go. Since we are all Adobe all the time I only installed CS6 on this machine. There is no Final Cut, Motion, or Compressor on this machine. This left me without ProRes! With a bit of [...]

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