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Best Buy Video Contest: 2nd Prize Winner

June 27, 2011

Thank you to everyone who voted for our video for the “Buyback” Best Buy Video contest. We did in fact win 2nd place nationwide. A nice $1,000 giftcard! We shot everything on the 7d. I did all of the visuals in After Effects and Particle Illusion. Check out the video below!   Tweet

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Best Buy Video Contest – Please vote for me!

June 3, 2011

I recently entered a 60 sec spot into Best Buy’s latest video contest, “Buy Back Lifestyle.”  They only pick 5 semi-finalists, and I was one of them.  Yeah! But now it’s up to the public to vote.  The voting dates are from June 3 – 17, 2011. The video with the most votes will receive [...]

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A Child’s Dream World

June 2, 2011

Check out this video reel we shot for Holy Smoke Studios. We helped design the wall murals in the hallway of one of the buildings in this reel.  We did the coloring and shading.  Everything was done in photoshop. Tweet

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Our new “Mikey Jibs”

March 28, 2011

We’ve recently completed our new piece of professional video equipment.  The “Mikey Jib.” The latest model is the Mikey EXT-18.  The jib is 18 ft high!  Check out the promo! Here is more info on jib for anyone who is interested.  Custom Video Engineering Tweet

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Jib Op for Local Film

March 10, 2011

We got to shoot with the RED One and Canon 5D Mark II with a local film in Hendersonville, NC. Mike was jib op for the 14 hour shoot. We started shooting around 3:00pm and didn’t finish until about 5:00am.  Long night, but the important thing is we completed our shot list. The scene consisted [...]

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“Do Something”

February 21, 2011

We finished a 30 second spot the other day with music artist, Joey Gaskin. Everything was shot in our studio using a green screen.  We then used After Effects for our compositing and visual effects. Music was mixed and added the finishing touches to the spot. Tweet

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Mortar and Explosion Tutorial in After Effects

February 16, 2011

Here’s a quick tutorial I did showing some of the visual effects in our film Foxhole. I explain simple shooting technics out in the field to help you prepare your footage for post production. Check it out!  If you’ve got questions, hit me up! Tweet

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NTFS for Mac.

January 27, 2011

Well guys, we finally have what we’ve been waiting for.  With an inexpensive plugin, we can not only read from NTFS hard drives with a mac, but we can now write to them as well. For less then $35 USD, you can purchase the Tuxera plugin for your mac. After purchasing the plugin, installing is [...]

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Cheap Canon Lenses vs. Canon L Series Lenses

December 16, 2010

Well there is a lot to explain… but here’s the short version… We tested a Canon 50mm f1.4 ($350) vs. a Canon 50mm f1.2 ($1400) lens… and I could not really see any difference on our 1080p “video” test footage. I did see quite a difference when we shot two test images at 21 mega [...]

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