Produxion

We just completed work on a new little documentary titled “Raptors”. Corio Raptor Care and Rehabilitation is a centre specialising in the care and rehabilitation of birds of prey, or raptors. The center is run by Nick and Anji Henderson, who provided us with access to the birds they look after, and to talk about (…)

This is a really – and I mean really insightful video of a talk given by a filmmaker going by the name of M dot Strange. He talks at length about how he created a feature-length animation on his own terms. He learned the skills from scratch, funded it himself, and built up a community (…)

I love Nattress Film Effects. I bought this set of Final Cut plugins last year for use on a kookie little DV film project, and they created a really great film look for footage which as shot on a rally cheap Canon camera. What’s so super-duper about them? Well, there are ways to create a (…)

I’ve never used Qmaster before. I’d never gotten around to poking around to see how it worked, and what benefits it might bring. And after the last installation I had on a G5 refused to function under Leopard, I just left well alone. Qmaster is, quite simply, a way to create a cluster for video (…)

Things got so busy recently that it became time to expand the number of workstations in the office. The G5 Mac I’ve been running for the past few years has been chugging along reliably, but it was causing a bottleneck in our workflow as the only machine which could handle any serious rendering jobs. Plus, (…)

I’ve just finished putting the finishing touches to 8 minutes and 43 seconds of documentary goodness, which has the working (and possibly final) title of “Raptors”. It was shot at the start of the Summer, and was intended as an entry to a Channel 4 “3 Minute Wonder” competition. Plans for that were slightly scuppered (…)