From The Fallen Empire Blog

Estimate Storage Needs and Camera Runtime

May 25, 2013

I’ve just been picked up as DIT on another feature film starting the first week of June and part of that responsibility includes letting our line producer know how much storage space the film will need and recommending appropriate storage systems and safety protocols for duplicate or triplicate backup. DIT is, well, a lot of [...]

May 19th – Update

May 19, 2013

Hello my loyal readers. I’m in Oregon for an Acura press event but suffice to say that there will be good things when I come back. There will be two new pieces of paid software coming out within the next week. RED RMD Sync which was offered briefly as a demo will be released due [...]

Understanding Premiere Pro’s H.264 Export Encoding Settings

May 6, 2013

H.264 is the de-facto standard for file based video delivery, a fact we all know and live with. Premiere Pro tries its best to hide some of the more advanced aspects of it’s two h.264 encoding methods but there comes a point where sometimes we need to dig a bit deeper. I remember editing a [...]