I am a film editor by trade; for years I had been using the traditional ways of editing film and working for most of my life in Europe. I loved those Steenbeck editing tables and I long for the touch of the positive film; for holding a shot against the light to look for the right frame for a cut. The nostalgia of the old way of film editing has, for years, kept me away from using computers for film editing and only five years ago—when I couldn’t get any more editing jobs—I started working with an AVID editing/compositing program…
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Independent and international filmmakers are in a constant search for the most powerful and affordable mobile workstations for film editing. To find desirable solutions ever-so-important matter, we interviewed Chris Convertito, the Worldwide Category Manager for mobile workstations at Hewlett Packard’s Workstation Global Business Unit, which is based out of Houston, Texas. Chris is responsible for the overall category strategy, new product planning, and HP’s high-end Business Notebooks and Mobile Workstation platforms.Cinema Without Borders: In the filmmaking market there is a growing need for mobile workstations, the issue being that most of these filmmakers are independent. Because of this they are…
In the last few months, we’ve been receiving emails and telephone calls from independent filmmakers and students of filmmaking about affordable graphics cards for the systems they use for digital film editing. Most of these newcomers to the world of filmmaking had been using HD consumer camcorders, such as Cannon HF 20, to shoot their films in HD and, when editing on their desktop Windows systems, they had problems dealing with .mts files. Most of them claimed their computers had crippled after importing the .mts files into any of the well known Windows-based video editing programs, such as Adobe Premier…
This is our first article in a series of interviews and reviews focusing on Digital Film Editing. Cinema Without Borders proudly starts this series by interviewing Mike Diehl, an expert on hardware from Hewlett-Packard.Mike Diehl is a product manager for the personal workstation business at Hewlett-Packard’s Workstation Global Business Unit. Mike is responsible for the feature definition and life cycle management for HP’s high-end workstation platforms. During his 24+ years at HP, Mike has had a diverse set of assignments in both R&D; and Marketing. He was a lead architect and engineer in HP’s workstation R&D; lab. This included the…
John C. Martin II, VP of Product Marketing, leads Reallusion’s award-winning CrazyTalk and iClone Studio. A founding member of Reallusion USA, John represents Reallusion’s brands and the continued development of evermore accessible filmmaking technology. John’s role as spokesperson for Reallusion connects audiences with demonstrations of Reallusion’s real-time filmmaking software that’s fueling the frenzy of user-generated video content on the web.John specializes in emerging media and social networks including Machinima and virtual worlds. He recognizes the vast potential to use virtual worlds and real-time game and animation engines to unite technology with the new era of digitalstorytelling and social interaction. Speaking…
I have used many digital animation packages in the past and Toon Boom Animate Pro downloaded and installed easily. Upon opening Toon Boom Animate Pro, I was struck with a very robust and complex interface. This is a serious professional package which is designed to create a streamlined production work flow.The interface allows for a great deal of customization allowing you to configure a variety of panels to aid in your ideal work flow. The flexible interface allows for efficient organization at various stages of the production pipeline from initial layout and rough drawing to the final composite of polished…
Stephane Herry, CEO of GigaTribe, enjoys working in various environments in different professions. He started working as an IT consultant helping big companies organize their business software architecture. He then joined the video game industry as a project manager for one of the first multiplayer online games. Working for Totem Entertainment, an online software editor, he worked in different jobs, from organizing manager to executive director. In 2005, he co-founded GigaTribe with Alexis Leseigneur, a very talented technical director. GigaTribe is a software community used by more than 1 million people to share files privately over the Internet.Bijan Tehrani: How…
The motto of this year’s 36th Siggraph in New Orleans was NETWORK YOUR SENSES.And for a newbie like myself, it indeed was a feast for the senses – with lots of inspiring talks, lecture-demonstrations, stimulating art shows, and intriguing new inventions.This 5 day-immersion in computer graphics and animation offered a comprehensive overview on new technologies that I am now eager to explore further.SIGGRAPH is the world’s preeminent annual conference and exhibition for computer graphics and animation. The event is produced by ACM SIGGRAPH: the Association of Computer Machinery’s Special Interest Group Graphics—i.e. professionals, educators, artists and academics working in computer…
Rob Holmes is currently Director of Content Acquisition of VUDU, a provider of video on-demand and other internet-delivered content directly to the television, where he heads new content acquisition for both the company’s video on-demand platform and VUDU Labs, the company’s rich media applications platform. Prior to VUDU, Rob was Vice President, Corporate Development at Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc (“MGM”). While at MGM, Rob worked in the digital media, worldwide television and corporate divisions, helping to craft the company’s initial digital distribution agreements, re-build the worldwide television distribution division and raise third party film and distribution financing. Rob was…
Almost one out of the ten times I manage to bang my laptop onto a desk or a wall (don’t call me clumsy, you do it, too), I lose a USB wireless mouse receiver that extends out from the side USB port of my computer. I was blaming myself for recklessness until I had my hands on a Verbatim Nano Wireless mouse. Nano’s USB wireless mouse receiver is very tiny, very short, and it eliminates the risk of you breaking it in under any circumstances. Verbatim Nano is compatible with both Windows and MAC OS and a 2.4 GHz RF…