Category Archives: Movies

Fluffy Larynx – A long forgotten music video

This little piece of work is built around a track that will appear on my upcoming HooKHeaD Project album, The Gleenix. Many of these long dusty tracks have videos to accompany them. I’ve held off on releasing most of these publicly for too many reasons to mention – but as always I just don’t have [...]

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Audio Production Guidlines

Good reading for managers and production folks who deal with film, video or any multimedia: An Open Letter From Your Sound Department The Fifteen Comandments For Sound and Picture Part 1 The Fifteen Comandments For Sound and Picture Part 2

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Hi-Def Disc Producers Fail to Learn From Standard DVD

High Def Digest has a list of the most annoying traits on both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs. Other than the newer format-specific quibbles most of the annoyances are problems that have existed with standard DVDs. When DVDs first came out they were pretty much bare-bones, then discs starting getting excessive with the menus and transitions. [...]

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Visual FX Shops Overwhelmed

Variety: Blockbusters take toll on f/x shopsMike over at hdforindies also backs this up.I hadn’t heard this till now – and I’m sort of a mid-range VFX guy a lot of the time.Actually, when I think about it the same expectations versus cost and time are a problem for my smaller projects as well. I’m [...]

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Final Cut Pro 6 – More Thoughts

Based on the forums and comments so far, it would appear that a radically overhauled Media Manager is the number one most desired feature for a new release of Final Cut Pro. I couldn’t agree more – though I’m seeing what appears to a large fork in what is wanted versus what might have been [...]

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David Lynch on Product Placement

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Apple TV

After all the hype built up, the Apple TV is shipping and reviews are popping up all over the web. NYT’s David Pogue summarizes: Apple TV offers a gracious, delightful experience — but requires fidelity to Apple’s walled garden. Negative factors are also summarized by Gizmodo. The consensus is that it’s a pretty weak product, [...]

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Gigli, I mean Battlefield Earth

While browsing the “cheap bin” at an online DVD shopping site I was greatly humored by the following mistake with one of the titles: (click on the image to see it at 100%) Somebody, like maybe the data-entry intern, seems to have a sense of humor. I have no idea if this has been fixed [...]

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