Monthly Archives: October 2011
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
Public Domain and Copyright
EU Officially Seizes The Public Domain, Retroactively Extends Copyright As was unfortunately expected, despite no evidence that this made any economic sense at all, the member states of the EU have agreed to retroactively extend copyright another 20 years, at … Continue reading
Transcripts are awesome
Just in case you missed the title of this post I’ll repeat, transcriptions are awesome. They can be read faster than the source material can be watched. They can be keyword searched. They can be emailed to anyone and read … Continue reading
Don’t up-rez footage in FCP
On a number of occasions I’ve seen, or read about, people dropping SD clips into HD timelines in FCP and just letting the program automatically scale the SD footage up to HD. While quick and convenient it doesn’t generate very … Continue reading
Winter (a new doc from the Ski Channel)
Here’s a trailer I cut for a doc I’m editing called “Winter” for The Ski Channel.