Archive for December, 2009

Stella’s Day

Stella’s Day

We have a rad dog named Stella. She's a unique little creature. Here's a little flick Lyn and I created to show a typical day in Stella's life. This was shot entirely on the Canon 5DMKII. It's a good proof-of-concept to show that you don't need a Red camera to create interesting visuals. You just need, well, interesting visuals. The small size and low weight of the MKII made it easy to get some of these hard to reach POV shots. Huge thanks to the talented Jef Gibbons for his musical contribution. Enjoy and Merry Christmas to all. ...

Stella’s Day

Stella’s Day

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DVD Studio Pro Tip

DVD Studio Pro Tip

Thankfully, the majority of my projects require no DVD authoring. Recently though, I needed to make a simple DVD menu and sub-menu with scene selection buttons. I ran into a peculiar DVD Studio Pro quirk that irked my skirt. In brief, this problem had to do with restarting a DVD after hitting stop twice. After hours of combing the web, and heading down dead-end rabbit trails, I finally came up with a solution. Figured I'd pay-it-forward to any bleary-eyed editors out there who've been pulling their hair out over this. First the problem: When you hit 'stop' on a DVD and then 'play,' normal behavior for a DVD is to 'resume' ...