This week I finally arrived at the finishing post with some of my HD Video footage. Although I’ve been shooting pure HD for the past 18 months; processing it and rendering it has always been a heavy task.
Since the upgrade to Snow Leopard, Final Cut Express 4 seems to have come into it’s own and really does seem to run so much better. I could still benefit from a faster machine but the Macbook is coping and so HD delivery has now arrived. With the HD production line flowing, the final stage of the workflow was to get the movies uploaded and embedded in HD. I have evaluated 2 possible sources for this, Vimeo and YouTube. (more…)

There’s nothing like a great visual experience to bring your music to life.
Everyone loves a good music video right? Of course they do.
So here we are, surrounded by Micro LCD screens streaming shiny rich media to us whenever and wherever we want. AVCHD and HD Video Functionality is everywhere and in easy reach of even the poorest of budding Film Producers.

Sounds great. Looks great. What’s the problem then? (more…)