Adobe really illustrates the power of searchable metadata to include the transcribing of video audio that is searchable… (Speech search) Learn more about XMP (eXtensible Metadata platform) within Adobe Bridge and CS4 to more efficiently track/search your assets.

Watch and learn… pretty slick, frame accurate dialogue!  A real timesaver! Now video can be searchable by the big search engines…

Rodney – DCFCPUG

<Photo Credit: Chris Cooley Official Website>

A new movie will be produced soon right here in Metro DC Area. The executive producers are Chris Cooley  (Washington Redskins, #47) and James Mercurio (Script consultant from Los Angeles).

If you missed it, there was a Washington Post article this week on the subject.

For more information on the 19th and Wilson production overview , head on over to the 19th and Wilson  site and contact them if you are interested in becoming involved with the project.

There is a fundraiser event on Sunday, the 11th January 2009 in DC (Shadow Room) for those with investor dollars. At 11pm, they will open the Shadow Room and they want to invite you to the official “Ghosts Don’t Exist After Party!

<Image Credit: 19th and Wilson>

The web address for the Google group is: 
http://groups.google.com/group/19thAndWilson 

They will be using this group to send out communications in the future.  Don’t 
miss out on calls for casting, crew and events that they are holding for this 
and all projects! 

<Photo Credit: 19th and Wilson Google Group>

 

Rodney – DCFCPUG

P.S: So who’s going to the After party?  <smile>

 

As a user of 4 Zacuto kits (documentary, cine, handheld, and handheld studio), this is an interesting part of filmmaking coming into its own. What do you think of this developing market?

Steve Weiss, Jens Bogehegn and Scott Lynch of Zacuto USA walk you through how to use your DSLR camera for digital cinematography. See what equipment you need to get great tripod and handheld shots using the new Canon 5D Mark II and Nikon D90 for HD video cinematography. Observe the team Zacutoize each camera package with traditional filmmaking accessories such as a follow focus, matte box, on-board monitor, handgrips, Beachtek audio adapter and more. Zacuto DSLR baseplate kits (Docu, Cine, Newsman, Indie and Filmmaker) are shown which allow you to create a feature styled balanced camera package. Learn how to handle audio using a DSLR with boom and wireless mics. Witness DSLR camera packages go from case, to tripod, to handheld in less than a minute by transporting the camera package fully assembled. See these new 35mm depth of field cameras that are going to revolutionize the independent filmmaking industry everyone is talking about.

Zacuto will be at the Government Video Technology Expo 2008, Booth #318 if you want to talk to Steve Weiss or Jens Bogehegn on this topic.

Check out the videos:

http://vimeo.com/2223602    ”Introducing DSLR Cinematography”

http://zacutovideo.com          ”For more Zacuto videos”

See pics and info on Zacuto DSLR setups: www.zacutoDSLR.com

Visit Steve Weiss’ filmmaking blog: http://zacuto.blogspot.com
Add us at Zacuto’s Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/zacutofilms
Check us out on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/zacutofilms
View our Flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zacuto/

Rodney

DCFCPUG members: We have established a relationship with Larry Jordan’s group to bring our members a great source of training on FCP and donor to our user group meetings!  Let’s show our support !

Sign up quickly as these limited seats go quickly! 

Take advantage of this once a year opportunity when Larry Jordan comes to Washington D.C for his Final Cut Pro PowerUP series. We’ve established a special discount for our DCFCPUG members to save you money on this great seminar. See below for details:

• Succeeding in the New World of Tapeless and HD Video (4 hours)
• Integrating Adobe Products into a Final Cut Workflow (4 hours)
• Discover the Hidden Power in Final Cut Studio (8 hours)

Need some additional handy online tools for your cinematography work? Our associates at Panavision in New Zealand have some great free reference tools that might help.

This Cinematography Reference is definitely one for your favorite bookmarks. Here are a few to get you started:

Frame and Format List
DOF/FOV/AOV Image Calculator
Illumination Guide for Motion Picture Film

Enjoy!

Rod – DCFCPUG

OpenCut.org describes their new film competition as “completely open-source” and “designed to encourage people to take professionally shot material and edit it in their own way.” Explaining that “there is no ‘one way’ to tell a story,” the competition is looking for their footage to be “re-edited and re-told from many different vantage points and perspectives.” Read the rest of this entry »

(Successful post-production requires solid production. Here is one in a series of production tutorials designed to improve the ultimate edit.)

The oft-stated yet still under- appreciated reality is that audiences will forgive mediocre video but not sub-standard sound. Solid audio recording offers better choices in post-production, and separates your work from that of an amateur.

Listed below are the steps to set up an external condenser microphone, a basic field mixer and a prosumer camcorder – specifically, audio-technica’s AT8035 Line + Gradient Condenser Microphone, Sound Devices’ 302 Compact Production Mixer and Canon’s XH-A1 high definition camcorder – to capture audio in the field. Read the rest of this entry »