“Making the Grade” – What It Takes to Be a Pro Colorist
There is nothing more important for a filmmaker to stand out in a sea of visual storytellers than having a signature style. This is where professional colorists come in.
There is nothing more important for a filmmaker to stand out in a sea of visual storytellers than having a signature style. This is where professional colorists come in.
Video is the most compelling way to tell a story. Learn how the OWC is helping disenfranchised youth tell their stories in powerful ways. It’s all part of the eARTh Project.
This week we saw the debut of Josh and Rebecca Tickell’s feature documentary, Kiss the Ground on Netflix. It is both illuminating and inspiring. It provides an important look at the state of climate change and our environment. But whereas many documentaries of this nature leave you feeling depressed and scared to death, Kiss the Ground is a film that will leave you filled with hope.
HyperCard was a powerful, yet extremely easy to use tool for creating “stacks” — essentially flat-file databases that used hyperlinks as a way of navigating a stack of “cards”. You have to understand that at the time HyperCard was first released in 1987, there was no World Wide Web, so the concept of hyperlinks was completely new. HyperCard not only got a lot of Mac fans started in programming, but it also inspired some of the tools that we take for granted today.
“I just wait a couple of seconds before unplugging a disk..." “I never safely eject a disk, and I’ve never had a problem...” “I waited for the light to go off before I pulled the plug, and everything looks fine...” There’s a lot of different ideas about disconnecting disks, and different ideas about why (and if) it’s necessary. In reality, unplugging a drive without telling the OS is always risky.
You can use your Mac laptop in closed-display mode (also known as “clamshell” mode) if you have an external display attached. Sometimes closed-display mode isn’t convenient. For instance, I have a 16-inch MacBook Pro connected to a 27-inch LG UltraFine...
Yesterday, August 5, 2020, Apple made a major update to the 27-inch iMac -- probably the last update that the venerable big-screen Mac will receive in its current incarnation. Future iMacs may feature a new design and will most certainly use Apple Silicon rather than the Intel CPUs found in the current model.
Have you ever searched online for an application icon? Maybe you wanted to add the Zoom logo to a Keynote presentation on videoconferencing. Or perhaps you needed a high res image of the Excel emblem for a tattoo to prove...
As we mentioned in an earlier Rocket Yard post, "Intel Introduces Thunderbolt 4: What Is It and Does It Matter?" Intel released the specifications and expectations of Thunderbolt 4 last week. This has caused quite a stir, initiated a lot of conversation, and even created a bit of fear in those who are heavily invested in Thunderbolt 3.
