Browsing Archive: August, 2012

And then I used a GoPro to film...a pianist

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Tuesday, August 28, 2012,

The School of Music's concert ad for September is live on YouTube. Check it out. I'm having so much fun producing these clips at the moment. The GoPro went along to the shoot purely for show and tell purposes but I ended up shooting footage with it that actually made it into the final clip! Just goes to show how versatile these little devices really are.

I wonder if GoPro would edit it into their demo reel if I sent it to them. Put it in right after the base jumping dude... :)

Now this is cool - Sorenson Squeeze 8.5 Pro

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Friday, August 24, 2012,

This upgrade was so cool, I just had to write about it! I've been putting off upgrading my media encoding application for a while now, but when Sorenson Media offered a limited 40% discount on upgrades to Squeeze 8.5 Pro I jumped onboard. I'm a huge fan of Sorenson Squeeze and it's very much a mission critical part of my post setup.

Squeeze 8.5 Pro now supports Avid DNxHD and Apple ProRes output. That's right, it means you can encode edit-ready, native codec media from just about any sour...

Go pro...with your GoPro

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Monday, August 20, 2012,

Above: my first test shoot with the GoPro HD Hero 2. Sadly this YouTube clip does not do the footage any justice; it really is super sharp when viewed in full HD. I'll rather burn this to Blu-ray...

I've wanted one of these for a long time. Whenever you see footage of skydiving, basejumping or any other adrenaline-fueled occupation, chances are it was filmed by someone wearing one of these strapped somewhere to themselves or their gear.There are a number of action cameras available at the m...

New promo live on YouTube

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Friday, August 3, 2012,

Title animations seems to be all the rage right now and I had the opportunity to complete a promo clip for a client recently that uses a lot of them. That, and plenty of stock footage clips.

I've had to deal with a lot of 29.97fps video lately and getting what is essentially NTSC clips to play smoothly inside 25fps (PAL) timelines have proven to be a bit of challenge. There's a number of workflows out there but the one that has worked the best so far uses Avid's Fluidmotion effect to do the...