Author Archives: AndrewK
Rolling with the punches and doing your home work
A large part of workflow development is adapting to new problems as they come up. Even the best made plans can quickly spiral towards catastrophe if just a single link in the chain breaks. This happened to me not too … Continue reading
4k sooner than I thought?
A few weeks ago if you would’ve asked my opinion about 4k I would’ve said that it’ll stay mainly in very hi-end acquisition but that’s about it for the foreseeable future. HD as we know it was nearly a decade … Continue reading
Golden Age of Corporate Video?
I read an interesting article at MarketingWeek.co.uk called Own-branded TV channels boost consumer engagement and that got me thinking that we might be entering a golden age of corporate video. For many people, myself included, the term “corporate video” conjures … Continue reading
iDevices, coming to a newsroom near you!
Leak shows Gannett stockpiling thousands of iPhones, iPads for journalists I don’t think news departments are going to toss out all their full-sized cameras, but for ‘breaking news’ quick, dirty and mobile is most likely going to win the day … Continue reading
Good-bye cable box. Hello ‘Xbox 360 Mini’?
Xbox 360 live TV apps official: AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, more Microsoft has made deals with TV providers like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast as well as individual channels such as HBO, Bravo and SyFy in their on-going effort to make the … Continue reading
Avid to FCP to Color wasn’t too painful.
Recently I used Apple Color to color a couple of short corporate pieces that originated in Avid. There’s more than one way to get from Avid into Color and the editor and I decided to go the AAF route as … Continue reading
Louis C.K. tops $1 million in sales of $5 comedy special
Louis C.K. tops $1 million in sales of $5 comedy special Not a bad haul at all and certainly another example of the best case scenario potential of self distribution. Of course you still need talent, $250k for production costs, … Continue reading
We are way past ‘good enough’
What do the movies November, 28 Days later, Open Water and Murderball all have in common? They were all shot in DV and had theatrical releases. That’s right, S-freakin’-D projected on the big screen for all to see! One of … Continue reading
Rolling with the punches and doing your homework
A large part of workflow development is adapting to new problems as they come up. Even the best made plans can quickly spiral towards catastrophe if just a single link in the chain breaks. This happened to me not too … Continue reading
Netflix and the future of streaming
As I’m sure many of you have heard, Netflix stock has been plummeting since this summer’s Qwikster fiasco. The stock is currently trading in the mid-70’s and less than four months ago it was at a record high of about … Continue reading