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Film Calculator 1.0 (Mobile)

The 2.1 Film Calculator is a multi-purpose tool for filmmakers to aid in common tasks of film conversion and counting in pre-production, production and post-production.

Tags: Mobile, Filmmaker, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-10-14

'A Swarm of Angels' crowdsourcing film production

Can open source methodology be applied to film production? Yes, says UK filmmaker and author, Matt Hanson, whose own project, A Swarm of Angels, is attempting to "crowdsource" the funding, production, and distribution of a $1.9+ million dollar movie.And hes not alone; supporters include free culture advocate, Cory Doctorow, the...

Tags: crowdsourcing, ANGELS, filmmaker

Blog posts 2007-03-22

Photos: Making 'The War Tapes'

Soldiers in Iraq, filmmaker in U.S. use inexpensive camcorders and constant stream of IMs and e-mail to create award-winning documentary.

Tags: photograph, documentary, filmmaker, camcorder, e-mail, IM, Iraq, U.S.

Image galleries 2006-10-14

Filmmaker, Filmmaker make me a film

And Lionhead Studios now owned by Microsoft, as it turns out, means that pretty literally. My last post triggered a fascinating discussion in the comments about what one may or may not do with machinima films created using The Movies. The Movies is a unique combination of...

Tags: Games, Game Movies, filmmaker, game

Blog posts 2006-09-26

Photos: Firefox filmmaker

Pete Macomber is hoping for a little exposure after winning Mozilla's "Firefox Flicks" competition.

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, filmmaker, Mozilla Corp.

Image galleries 2006-04-28

Photos: Firefox filmmaker

Pete Macomber is hoping for a little exposure after winning Mozilla's "Firefox Flicks" competition.

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, filmmaker, Mozilla Corp.

Image galleries 2006-04-28

Photos: Video-shooting minihelicopter

NAB conference showcases latest broadcasting tech, including a tiny, remote-controlled chopper for filmmakers and photographers.

Tags: filmmaker, broadcasting, conference, video

Image galleries 2006-04-27

Photos: Video-shooting minihelicopter

NAB conference showcases latest broadcasting tech, including a tiny, remote-controlled chopper for filmmakers and photographers.

Tags: filmmaker, broadcasting, conference, video

Image galleries 2006-04-27

Additional Resources

Flipping Fantastic

I used to carry around a 1/2 dozen.......100 watt daylight-balanced, blue incandescent photoflood bulbs that I'd use to swap over at any normal interior location, to boost up the ambient light levels. With excellent automatic white balance nowadays, you wouldn't need the expensive blue photo bulbs, just ordinary incandescent...

Tags: camera, Kodak Zi8

Discussion threads 2009-11-21

My new daughter is a lot like Linux

OK...I promise, this will be my last post this week about my new little daughter. Really. No matter what cute things she does, I'll limit my oohing and ahhing to Twitter. However, as I was changing her diaper for the umpteenth time today, I got to thinking...

Tags: Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-15

Macworld 2010: Gearing up for an Apple-less event

Apple won't be at Macworld this year but the show will go on, with presentations by tech journalists David Pogue and Leo LaPorte, as well as filmmaker Kevin Smith. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Apple Inc., Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Gorilla 4.7 (Mac)

Gorilla is a suite of software tools designed to assist the creative individual in making a film, or a video. From Preproduction through Production to Post Production, Gorilla contains everything the filmmaker or videomaker needs to make a movie.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Gorilla, Jungle Software, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-10

AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the money' [interview]

Cloud computing can't possibly handle streaming a first-person shooter or a feature-length film, can it? Ask AMD's Charlie Boswell, and he'll not only tell you it's possible, but he'll nearly leap with excitement about it. Boswell, AMD's director of digital...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cloud, GPU, OTOY, Fusion Render Cloud, Jules, Games, Cloud Computing, Internet, Virtualization, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-11

Back to school: Will you be buying productivity software for that new laptop?

It wasn't all that long ago that a key question when you bought a new computer was, Office or WordPerfect? I mean not long ago in human years. In Internet years, it was an eternity. Does WordPerfect even exist anymore? Does anyone care? Now,...

Tags: Laptop Computer, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Microsoft's latest "Laptop Hunter" ad

Microsoft's latest "Laptop Hunter" adAnother joke from MicrosoftYou can get a laptop for $300 dollars, why did they give her $2000? Since the quality, user experience, usability, stability, resale value, ownership costs, capabilities, etc never seem to fit into this lines of commercials, what is the use of giving $2000?...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, advertisement, Apple Macintosh, laptop computer, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC

Discussion threads 2009-05-06

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Top 10 camcorders

This year's hottest product category is arguably digital video, and there are a ton of options available on the market. So which camcorder should you choose? To aid you in your search for the best gadget for your visual adventures, here's my list...

Tags: Camcorder, Video, Canon Inc., Canon HG10, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?

As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...

Tags: Bebchuk, Board, Business Operations, Carl Icahn, Chairman, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Director, Larry Dignan, Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Shareholder, Yahoo Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2008-05-15

The Mac desktop, set to music

A friend emailed me a link to the above video from YouTube, which is a music video for The Bird And The Bee's "Again & Again" created entirely on/in a Mac OS X desktop. I especially like the creative plug to buy the song on iTunes at the end of...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Video, Corporate Communications, Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Music, Hardware, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-05-12

'Google Me,' the movie

We've all googled our names, but how many of us have actually wanted to meet our "google twins" or "googlegangers"? That's the premise behind the new documentary film Google Me. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi sits down filmmaker Jim Killeen and learns about the six other Jim Killeens he's met around...

Tags: News, google, movie, jim killeen, google me, kara tsuboi, youtube, film, hollywood

Videos 2008-04-23

Movie tech comes home with Healthphone SaaS

The Lord of the Rings imaging technology we profiled in August is coming to market through a Software As A Service SaaS offering for visiting nurses called Healthphone. The Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada has piloted the system, which includes a tablet PC from Motion Computing, and it's...

Tags: Patient, Movie, Wound, Worker, Error, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-12