At the 1:15 mark in the YouTube movie below, we get a personal message from the caption writer. It’s funny, especially to some of our employees who can empathize with the sometimes “very lonely” aspect of the job. Enjoy!
(Note: you may need to play the movie fullscreen in order to read the closed captioning.)
CMP is proud to be one of only twelve companies nationwide to be recognized as a “YouTube Ready” caption provider. Here’s the official announcement.
I just couldn’t resist this little crash-cam @ NAB… I feel certain we’ll find a “real” use for it soon, but until then we’re going to have a lot of fun! Made by GoPro, the HD Hero camera is attached to one of my kids’ R/C toys.
We recently shot day 1 of 3 scheduled for Newsom Productions’ efforts for both Chevy dealer associations in the state. Despite a little rain and an extremely ambitious schedule, we were able to get some great footage on our RED ONE digital cinema camera. Look for it on the air soon, with more to come.
Well, it’s that time again. Below are some of the things I’ll be looking at this year at NAB. Come back after the show to see some of my thoughts.
This year seems to be the year of parties…
• Monday night is the annual TM Television customer party and the “ALL-INfilm” celebrity poker tournament (proceeds to Haiti earthquake relief)
• Avid is having several in-booth parties, and I’m going to the Tuesday night one featuring Matrox and Canon. There’s also the ubiquitous FCPUG Supermeet and a new one this year – a “3D nightclub” called 3opolis. Should be interesting!
• The parties continue Wednesday with an all-day mini convention with RED at the RedUser party and then perhaps an after-party…
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The Foundry has a great lineup of speakers – I’m going to sit through several presentations here.
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The “Post Pit” is a new feature this year – Tuesday has a live recording of the Red Centre podcast, highlights of Motion 4, and a talk from Ted from RED. Then at 2:30, I’m off to see the Avid Post workflow presentation in the demo suite at Avid.
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Wednesday morning is a rare opportunity to hear Stan Lee – I’m looking forward to this one!
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More Post Pit topics on Wednesday, so I may be late to the RedUser event: Avid tips at 1:30 and Grant Petty from Blackmagic Design at 3.
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Of course, there’s always the trade show, which is the main reason we go. The short list of things I’ll be researching this year are:
• LTO backup hardware and software
• Shared storage
• Used gear for our new tape room
• Announcements from Avid, Apple, Adobe, etc.
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And if I’m lucky, I may get a few hours sleep!
–Don
OK, we’re back! I will try to post some of the recent projects of note here. Thanks for your patience!
Don stuck around in Tulsa to do some finishing work on the ESPN summer bowling series. This year it’s produced by David Bruner, and we cranked out shows: SEVEN 30-minute shows aired in a single day, back-to-back(!!), on ESPN with reruns hitting ESPN2 soon after. Whew!
We just heard that post-production has been completed on the Tony Roma’s shoot David did with the RED ONE (he was the DIT). A QuickTime movie is embedded above for your viewing pleasure.
Fresh on the heels of a (delayed) Form 10-Q filing, the Outdoor Channel started another round of layoffs at Winnercomm in Tulsa on Tuesday. Twelve staff members got the boot, including some long-time friends of CMP.
Looking at the 1st quarter numbers for ’09 vs ’08 (pre-Winnercomm purchase), we can estimate that Winner’s income for the period was $4.5 million but had expenses of roughly $92K higher than that, so this round of layoffs is not unexpected. In fact, it was rumored to be on-tap since October of last year.
If you hear of any production work, please consider contacting some of these recent re-entries to the job market.
Due to some scheduling conflicts, Tulsa’s Carol Mathews needed an online editor last week to finish a new national show for TBN. We were able to send Don for the first of several weeks to apply his expertise on Impact Productions‘ Mac-based Avid Symphony Nitris DX.
Working with Impact’s Eric Newman, Don is editing interviews for each show and conforming an FCP offline edit via Automatic Duck for 720P and SD finish.
Look for the show to launch in May or June of this year.
David and Micah went to Dallas today for a RED ONE shoot for Tony Roma’s, an international restaurant chain with locations on 5 continents. Steve Jones of Digital DK out of Norman booked us on the shoot. He has been quick to see the advantages of this powerful new camera, and the word on the street is that the client absolutely loved being able to see the overcranked to 120 fps playback on set (in HD, no less!) rather than waiting for the film to process and transfer.
Now then, where are those ribs you promised me, guys?
David and I were back at the OKC FCPUG on Tuesday with another demo of the RED ONE. A few people had been to our February event, but most of the crowd was seeing and touching the camera for the first time. We handed out some coffee mug swag, and I even won one of the door prizes! Make sure to call us at 405-842-3343 to find out when the next public event is, or to book your own hands-on with this revolutionary new production tool.
Thursday, David and Jordan shot interviews with the five finalists for Tate Music Group’s Artist of the Year competition. Then Micah, Evan and David cut 2 minute artist profiles to be rolled into the live show. Friday, Don and Mark setup the 3-camera shoot while the finishing touches were happening with the profile videos. All our efforts culminated in a 90-minute live show streamed to over 800 viewers on the internet and to the live audience, complete with jib shots, roll-ins, etc.
Grand prize was $15,000 and a music video, which we’ll shoot sometime in Q2, and was awarded to Chandler, a great band out of Georgia. Congrats, guys!