The title says it really. After living on a (un)healthy diet of… well, coffee, it was about time to bring somethings up to date on the site, and all round internet adventures! Many behind-the-scenes jobs, that keep us all busy among other relaxing things that make us that lazy to even begin. But alas, where here! To begin, we finished the month off with three productions (that are still being considered for the festival circuit – thus the lack of seeing them). Firstly a micro film by Hieu Chau titled, Boy Friends, that follows his sweet rise into Asian cinema,...
The Sony NXCAM FS100 video camera has shown that it is more than capable of being a sturdy piece of equipment, as well as producing some magnificent images. This comes down to the low light feature, as well as the sensor size that it holds. But there have also been some Picture Profiles that have arisen as of late, that allow you to really take this camera and “point and shoot”. It adds the style directly into the image, so no need to grade – but in that, there is no going back. So from these styles, we made a...
Moving into the digital age was meant to be easy – especially for film editing. But advancing just a handful of codecs into a sea of multiple formats, and compressions gets a little up in your face – and that’s even before you start editing! So why after a while of these codecs being widely used by the many DSLR and video camera companies am I just bringing it up? Well it came to my attention from some people I know who were editing on Final Cut Pro, were just copying footage from their memory cards, or internal hard drives...
In my first year at university, I remember borrowing a book from the library called Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong by Anthony Leong. It was a great crash course on Korean cinema and offered a great amount of information about the recent boom in Korean filmmaking that is spearheaded by directors such as Park Chan-wook, Kim Ji-woon and Bong Joon-ho (these three names just so happen to be my personal favourite directors working in South Korea at the moment). It was an interesting read and I would definitely recommend it to anyone with any interest in Korean cinema or...
Here at MBFilms, we don’t like to get involved in political issues – that’s not our job. We won’t be crying when Facebook makes another layout change, or we are faced with another Fail Whale on Twitter. Sure these things annoy us, but we’re not here to discuss that. We are however here to spread the important news relating to film, music, and video games, among other creative media. This is why when I found out about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) I was in mixed emotion. From the name itself it appears to help us people who own...
This post is mainly for users of Final Cut, and people who need to import footage via a miniDV tape. Digital cameras do not have this issue. Following on from my previous post on how to make Final Cut Proxy files sometimes the hardest part of editing in Final Cut isn’t actually the editing itself. When importing footage from a miniDV tape you have a high chance of hitting an error screen (below) due to having a timecode break in the tape. But what is a Timecode Break? This question is a very common question when a user gets the...
So in Australia, we can get some pretty nasty summer days that you just want to edit sitting in a pool or freezer. But until they make waterproof harddrives, and laptops, I guess we’re all stuck to editing at our usual workstation. Now where we work, there aren’t any delivery cafés that could deliver my cold drink to my desk, nor is there the benefit of not having to turn the computer on and hear a billion buzzing fans. It’s days like this that I want to take my editing to a café down the street and edit remotely. By...
As a bright way to start the New Year, and at the risk of sounding like something of a fanboy, I must confess openly and unashamedly that I love Natalie Portman. So does Mark. We love her ability and what she represents as an actor. Getting the opportunity to direct her one-day would be a dream come true for us (it’s not outside the realm of possibility). This article is supposed to be a ‘profile’ of Ms. Portman, but really, if you want to know her biography, or a list of the films she has appeared in you can go...
We rolled out a new design today, and we’re quite excited about it! Some people think that our last one was quite recent but it was actually last year when we released version 2! We know right?! Time flies! But that seems to be the average time between versions for us so keep keen. Current [v3] Old [v2] Features and Advancements Some new features are that of quite significance! We monitored the activity of users, and where they went often (and where they didn’t go or participate). From this we noticed the Forum, and our Live Chat sections were going...
