Green Screening 101 – The Setup
I’ve had a ton of people ask how to shoot on a green screen. There are literally an infinite amount of ways to do it “correctly”, but here is my process, with ideas that I picked up through film school and trial-and-error. It is by no means “perfect” but I feel that it is worthy, being that we use it all the time. [...]
Continue ReadingPDF Pen Page Numbering
We figured out how to place page numbers on alternating sides of the bottom corner of pages in PDF Pen. This script places a page number on alternating sides of the bottom corner of each page. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 tell application "PDFpenPro" if (count documents) > 0 then set pageCount to count [...]
Continue ReadingMounting your JVC LCD viewfinder lower
Here is an idea of what we’re going to be doing. Our auditorium floor doesn’t slope, so in order to shoot over the crowd our tripods have to sit pretty high. And setting the LCD viewfinder on top means that you or your volunteers have to stretch their necks awkwardly. luckily, $1.25 in hardware can fix this! Here is our camera [...]
Continue ReadingFriday Pick: Blogsy for the iPad
Right now I am trying out Blogsy for the iPad. I love WordPress. It is fully customizable, theme-able, supports a tons of plugins, and it works on everything. Plus, I love the open source attitude about the whole thing. They get it. That being said, there is one lame cog in the whole WordPress machine: the iOS app. When blogging, ideas happen [...]
Continue ReadingFriday Pick: Divvy
I’m nit-picky about things. Not in a Monk-obsessive-compulsive-disorder kind of way, but I like my workspace clean, which is why I love and use Divvy everyday. Call it perfectionism, madness, or procrastination, but before I can sit and work on anything, my windows have to be evenly spaced and clean. It’s stupid, really, but it’s [...]
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