I have been having skippy jumpy footage issues with both my 5D and 7D. All the footage from Asia has skips in it. I can’t tell you how much angst this has caused. When I was opening the h264 files in Quicktime, they skipped, sometimes very badly. Converting to ProRes in StreamClip or Compresor and [...]
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How To:Transcoding
I have been getting emails wanting more specifics on workflow and was about to make an entry on transcoding (changing the CODEC) on the 5DII footage so that FC can read it, but then I saw that Vince Laforet does a very good job of explaining it. The difference is that I use Compressor, rather [...]
What are you doing right now?
What are you doing right now? Are you doing the thing that you most need to do? I found myself a couple of days ago with pads of lists, setting up jobs in 3 time zones, coordinating with all the various suppliers, crew and location folks that entails. Then I found this scheduling software called [...]
Electro Gremlins
I am not entirely sure what to make of this, but it was an exceptionally bad week for the world of the electron over here at studio DHS. Saturday, a visiting art director accidentally smashes a 500 gig spinning Iomega HD to the floor. Wrecked. Tuesday my never failing super designed Glyph crooked. Weds, one [...]
About
David Harry Stewart is a photographer and director. He comes from a small town in western New York. He started taking pictures at the age of 8, first with a plastic Kodak 126, then a Polaroid Swinger. He did his first national ad campaign at age 23, then moved on to Paris to work for fashion magazines. Returning to New York he has a successful and award winning career, working for magazines like Interview, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, New York Magazine, Time and The New York Times Magazine. Agency work includes Saatchi, Deutsch, BBDO, Leo Burnett, and Ogilivy, for clients such as American Express, Nike, Coke, Corona and Bank of America. Awards include Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club, Photo District News, The Living Photograph Motion Awards, and American Photography. He splits his time between Los Angeles and New York.
