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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 […]

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Bean Boozled Jelly Beans

Most of you have probably tried out Jelly Belly jelly beans with their realistic flavours. Well Fuzz got me a pack of Bean Boozled beans that are much more fun. They have a mixture of the regular Jelly Belly flavours, but they also include some really disgusting flavours that have the same appearance as the regular ones, so you […]