Author: Andy

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House Teaser Out

The teaser for the new season of the American TV show House is now out.  What makes this so special is that this series is shot on a Canon 5Dmkii, similar to the 7D camera that I use for my own productions.  This is the first mainstream TV show to […]

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Slovenia Mountainbike World Cup

The 2010 downhill mountain bike world cup season is about to kick off and i’ll be heading over to Slovenia for round one of the series working along side John Lawlor to produce team videos for both Specialized and Santa Cruz. We’ll also be getting footage for Clay Porters next […]

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Belfast Maserati

This was the my first shoot with the Canon 7D DSLR camera. I was driving through my home town of belfast when I was lucky enough to come across a Masseratti at the side of the road, fully lit.

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Using ContourHD 1080p footage with FCP

I’ve just been testing out a ContourHD 1080p video camera. I tried to import the footage into Final Cut Pro to edit but it turns out the ContourHD records to a strange h.264 format which is not the best for editing. The work-around I did for this was to transcode […]

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PAL FCP project to NTSC DVD conversion

I have been working on a mountainbike documentary which is about 65 minutes long.  Everything was shot in PAL HDV format.  The problem came when i went to figure out distribution of the film.  It turns out that NTSC would be the best format for international distribution since most Pal […]

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Correcting grades in Apple Color 1.5

I have been using Apple’s Color to grade the Biking DVD I am working on and have been getting on quite well with it.  Problems started happening when I had sent my rendered files back to FCP and wanted to make corrections.  The normal route for this is to open […]