Monthly Archive: December 2010

Adrift shortlisted for open shutter awards

Adrift gets shortlisted for the Open Shutter Awards

The short “Adrift” that I made with Peter Naylor has made it to a short list of ten for the Open Shutter Awards 2010. The British Journal of Photographers, in association with Canon, is organising the first UK HD-DSLR Awards, open to all kinds of HD-DSLR films, from documentaries and commercial...

HDSLR Encoding Wars – Premiere Pro vs Final Cut Pro

Browsing the web reading various reports and reviews about Premiere Pro I keep coming across the statement that because Premiere Pro works without the need to transcode H.264 DSLR files the footage inherently retains more quality. After using Premiere Pro for a week or so I decided to spend some...

SilentArena @ Reading Festival

I shot this for SilentArena at the Reading Festival in August 2010. By far the biggest challenge with shooting any club type scene is trying to capture the closeness and the vibe of being at such an event. In the past I’ve struggled to do that, mainly because of shooting...

Using the Trim Monitor in Premiere Pro CS5

I posted a video last week about the basic editing differences between Final Cut Pro & Premiere Pro. In that video I described how the biggest problem with PPro for me was the inability to do various trim edits using the keyboard. Thanks to a comment from David K I’ve...

FCP to PPro CS5 – editing differences

Im general I’m really enjoying Premiere Pro at the moment, working with DSLR footage is a breeze and I really like the workflow, but there’s a few fundamental differences when making basic edits that catch you out as a FCP user and I thought I’d throw together a quick video...

Multicam edits in Premiere Pro using PluralEyes

In this video I show how to use PluralEyes to sync DSLR clips in Premiere Pro CS5 and then go on to show how to do a multicam edit. As you’ll see in the video PluralEyes works slightly differently with Premiere Pro which requires a slightly different approach to the...