Recent content by sixtycyclehum

If you can squeeze it in, check out Chicago's Best on WGN this Sunday at 10pm. I shot every frame and edited most of it. I'll also start blogging soon about production for the show on Chicago Now. B-roll.net has been a HUGE influence on my shooting style so I can't thank everyone enough for the...

If you haven't checked out this site before, here's a great one: Free Graphic Design Needed This is from the site dontevenreply.com, Emails from an Asshole. Prank emails!

I've always spelled the short form of microphone as 'mic'....recently I've been seeing it spelled 'mike' like in this story. This guy makes an argument for 'mike'. It's kind of annoying to see it spelled that way to me. Upon doing a search I was suprised to find that both spellings seem to...

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Is there a way in FCP to collapse separate video tracks like in Avid? I read some stuff in the manual about 'nesting' but I guess I'm going for more of a submaster that I can open up and still move things around in if I want to...

Hakuba Lens Cleaning Pen I did a search and didn't find any threads about it. Has anybody ever used this? Looks pretty handy...

...looks an awful lot like b-roll.net: I'm just saying...

...scenario paintball to be exact (also called woodsball). It's basically an all day event pitting one team of 100 vs. another team of 100 (and this is a small event!). So I'm taking ye old JVC GY-HD100u into the woods and wondering "how will I protect this thing from these flying balls of...

My fellow creative services photographer is leaving us for greener pastures (corporate video so MUCH greener) and I have the task of organizing his MASSIVE 9-year collection of gels for the next person we hire. So far I've thrown away any brittle or oddly cut pieces, separated them by color...

I found out about this camera from HD for Indies. I'm thinking about purchasing this to use as a safety camera for weddings. Here's some images taken by a member of an HV20 user group: 'Not bad for a bb gun. I'm sure it helps to have one of these on the front, though: BIG LENS

I experienced my first lit pixel back in December and now it's back...not exactly a glowing review for JVC's GY-HD100u. The pixel is just above the best man's shoulder> It looks like he may have spotted it ;) I got the extended warrenty so I'm sending it back AGAIN to get fixed. It'll cost me...

http://www.faugerburg.blogspot.com I'm not sure who he is but he's obviously making fun of people in the Peoria market. I've got him bookmarked.

I'm sending my JVC GY-HD100 to get repaired and they want me to describe the problem. Here's what I have so far: "A dot appears in the upper-third of the frame and is recorded on the tape. It is not on the lense and appears in both the viewfinder and LCD screen. It appears while shooting in...

LINK It's a long article but it basically talks about how newspapers are incorporating HDV into their websites. I think its great for us because it gives us another venue to practice our craft. I like what David Leeson from the Dallas Morning News says about stills from HDV: “Most folks...

This weekend I did a nat-pak on homemade candy canes and got some really good nats. They were playing "Home Alone" on a tv there and I thought I'd roll on it for a little while and use the music from it in the story. I'm not sure what it was called but its the really fast christmas song in the...