Recent content by Jon Thomasberg

My 18 yr old daughter will be graduating high school this year and is interested in pursuing directing, producing and acting. What are your suggestions on where she should consider attending/what the best course of pursuit should be given the current job environment and what others look for in...

PM if you have. Thanks.

I am trying to get right a auto-transcode script to make prores dailies of R3Ds once injested into our NAS (running FreeBSD). I read up and it seems that after the .r3d v3 codec that there have been issues with ffmpeg R3D input. Anyone have any good info on this? TIA,

It's been said that Jim grew up in Alhambra, CA. Alhambra is arabic for 'the red'. Coincidence?

Need (1) 512 SSD. PM or EMAIL if you have one for sale. Need shipped to VA.

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If you have time, watch this video about the Pagani Huayra. While watching it, the attention to detail, the liberal use of the best materials, the milling and the reference to the singular vision of one man and the interactive synergy of his entire team, for me, drew a parallel to Jim and...

Just to give you all a heads-up, installing a Vertex3 SSD into a mid-2009 17" MBP is problematic. Getting SATA1 speeds (~80MB/s read and 130 writes using AJA test). System Profiler is showing Nvidia MCP97 AHCI as "1.5 negotiated". Called OCZ to see if there is a firmware fix -- the are aware...

While I know it is not a professional tool like an 8-core (or soon to be 12-core) MacPro, and thus has many more limitations, has anyone figured out a good workflow for RED ONE footage using an iMac since you can't add a RED Rocket to the system? If so, please elaborate on what hardware config...