tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221483662007-03-01T14:19:28.323-08:00Chris WrightBlogger201tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-36641212014342819092007-03-01T14:17:00.000-08:002007-03-01T14:19:28.503-08:00

This tutorial takes you through capturing footage on the Avid and has many great timesaving tips and tricks.

Chris Wrighttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1171555670713970072007-02-15T08:06:00.000-08:002007-02-15T08:07:50.726-08:00

This tutorial takes you through through the basic editing on an Avid Media Composer: selecting footage, playing footage, and adding and removing shots from your sequence. It even also feature an advanced tip on the use of three point editing. Enjoy!

Chris Wrighttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1171406774798584742007-02-13T14:44:00.000-08:002007-02-13T14:46:14.823-08:00

Written By: Christopher Rice Norbit provides the audience with a trio-performance by Eddie Murphy as well as a great example of sympathy and antipathy. From a writer’s point of view, it’s you job to supply the audience with a character that presents empathy, sympathy, or antipathy or a combination of the three. This is how to get your readers invested with your characters and fuse together in an

Christopher Ricetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1170127188951441002007-01-29T19:17:00.000-08:002007-01-29T19:19:48.970-08:00

Here's the second video in my Avid Tutorial series. This video goes over starting a project and working with your settings and bins.

Chris Wrighttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1170126045404940162007-01-29T18:54:00.000-08:002007-01-29T19:00:45.406-08:00

At long last I've made a tutorial for Avid Media Composer. Here is the first of what I hope to be many tutorials.

Chris Wrighttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1155000080508940922006-08-07T18:16:00.000-07:002006-08-08T10:23:03.460-07:00

Because the story is based on true events and people, it required a gentle and respectable approach of direction not only for the people the story it portrayed but for the audiences that remember September 11th. Oliver Stone directed the story and subject matter with a sensitive eye creating a brilliant story of true heroism while respecting audiences’ memory of the incident by being unobtrusive

Christopher Ricetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1155000470906177702006-08-07T18:22:00.000-07:002006-08-08T10:20:26.273-07:00

Every time I look over my shoulder, the newsstand attendant appears to be starring at me from his little chair, skinny legs crossed, his fragile little cigarette begging to be flicked of dead ash – kind of like when smokers’ cough tries to rid of the dead ash from their lungs … but can’t. Maybe it’s because he’s actually one of thousands of bipedal aliens here to observe the human race inhabiting

Christopher Ricetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1147982294191338212006-05-18T12:46:00.000-07:002006-05-18T13:21:47.963-07:00

BackPocket Entertainment is an organization that produces short films for exhibition in film festivals. Recently, “A La Carte”, the first short for the company, was wrapped after a year-long battle of persistence and determination. “The footage is fantastic,” I would say, “Hughes is doing a great job lighting this picture and it simply wouldn’t come together with out Katie.” But I found myself

Christopher Ricetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1146669616494504772006-05-03T07:48:00.000-07:002006-05-03T08:27:54.216-07:00

Well - I got to NAB on Thursday which happens to be the last day of the convention so presumably I missed the bulk of the crowd. For those of you who have never been - NAB is huge! Of course Avid's and Apple's booths (more like cities) are easy to find. Avid is right in front of you when you walk in and Apple is conveniently to the right making as much counter noise as possible. But it was

Chris Wrighttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1146593693696956602006-05-02T11:10:00.000-07:002006-05-02T11:14:54.270-07:00

Avid announced that Media Composer Academic is going to be only $295. This is amazing. As far as I can tell - there is no difference between the academic and pro version - just the price. This is great!

Chris Wrighttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1145855302162257682006-04-23T22:05:00.000-07:002006-04-23T22:08:22.176-07:00

Avid just announced a software only version of Media Composer - their top of the line editing software - for $4,999. A lot of money I know - but much less than the $25,000 it was previously selling for. You can even get SDI I/O and hardware acceleration (more realtime fx) for $1,500 with the new SDI mojo box. I'm drooling right now. I'll post more when I know more about it - but it looks awesome

Chris Wrighttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1145483331807321122006-04-19T14:42:00.000-07:002006-04-21T10:23:48.410-07:00

“Hi, I’m with the United States Marine Corps, are you Christopher Rice?” My heart pounds out of my chest and my thoughts storm behind the back of my wide eyes. “Could I be in this much trouble?” Apparently I had actually enlisted myself, on accident of course, via electronic submission into the Marine Corps. This mistake was due to the power of the film that inspired me to make movies. If I

Christopher Ricetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1145483825915675692006-04-19T14:49:00.000-07:002006-04-20T15:22:26.400-07:00

“Alien saucers have attacked the 101,” The radio announces, “Cars are jammed together in a deadly gridlock as smoke billows in the horizon.” This is my imagination firing every morning while commuting 30 miles South to Hollywood. My first responsibility as a runner is to pick up the trades for the big Cheese every morning before I clock in for the day. The trades are full of Hollywood news and

Christopher Ricetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1145550641162696202006-04-20T09:25:00.000-07:002006-04-20T09:48:22.366-07:00

The new HD-DVD Players have released this week from Toshiba. Only 6 films have been released for the player so far. Serenity? Why on earth did they release that? The cool thing is that the DVDs are encoded at 1080p but unfortunately the players only output 1080i - which isn't horrible because there aren't many 1080p HDTVs in the US yet. Netflix already has HD-DVD in their library - which is

Chris Wrighttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1145502976321371742006-04-19T20:08:00.000-07:002006-04-19T20:16:16.333-07:00

According to this article on CreativeMac.com FCP is faster on a MacBook Pro Dual Core compared to the Dual 2.0 G5. This is great. I might get one as soon as they release a FW800 add-on card so I can do some crazy HD editing on the go...this time in realtime. :) In conclusion, the article states: "When I set off to benchmark the MacBook Pro, the question I wanted answered was how close the

Chris Wrighttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1145056613094572182006-04-14T16:03:00.000-07:002006-04-19T13:14:05.093-07:00

For almost the past month and a half I've been cutting a job using footage shot using the Panasonic Varicam DVCPROHD camera. The footage looks amazing...and I must say that I'm very spoiled by HD right now. The coolest part is that were shooting alot of offspeed footage - 12fps (so it looks sped up when played back), 18fps, normal 24fps, even 36fps, 40fps, and 60fps slow motion. The footage from

Chris Wrighttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1139435968359444192006-02-08T13:48:00.000-08:002006-02-08T14:02:04.606-08:00

The Studentfilms.com DVD for the "Road" Contest that was held on the site last summer is coming along well. 16 films were submitted to the contest and they should all be on the DVD. The DVD will feature commentaries by the filmmakers as well as other special features. We're waiting on all of the necessary release forms and footage before we star the encoding of the DVD. It's going to be

Chris Wrighttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1139422426489108942006-02-08T10:12:00.000-08:002006-02-08T13:43:32.670-08:00

If there is one suggestion that I can make to anyone looking to get into the film business, it would be to get as many filmmaking internships as possible while at college. When I was a film student at Boston University's College of Communication (COM '99), I interned during the summer of each year and even throughout my senior year. These filmmaking internships provided me with a very important

Chris Wrighttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1139424055881124642006-02-08T10:37:00.000-08:002006-02-08T10:41:31.993-08:00

There is a great article on the New York Times about the pros and cons of film school. It focuses mainly on USC. Click the tile for the full article - free registration is required. Excerpt below: "What students seek from the film school experience, it seems, is a direct connection to an industry that, without one, is hard to crack. And for that, modern-day U.S.C. is without peer. With its long

Chris Wrighttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22148366.post-1139422949519576512006-02-08T10:17:00.000-08:002006-02-08T10:24:59.036-08:00

This may be old news - but there is a great article on the new Panasonic HVX-200 over on HD for Indies. The best part about this camera is the variable frame rate options - finally REAL and "affordable" slow mo and undercranking available on a video camera.

Chris Wright