30 Aug An Interesting Few Weeks

So it’s been an interesting few weeks, spending some time in a remote part of the country I thought would be great for getting my course work done in a relaxing setting while spending some time with my family.

Day one the phone mast in the village went down knocking out both phone and internet for four days, so no chance to get any work done in the first few days, (for some people this would be relaxing but the stress of falling behind or to getting something done is not good for me). On top of that later in the week the muffler box on my car detached from the exhaust and my car spent the night in a garage and my phone went for a swim in the sea because while stand-in knee deep in water I just had to take a photo.

Back to Dublin and I then managed to give myself a black eye after a shoot trying to fold a 6 foot collapsible back drop, not easy when you’re 5’3. And after another shoot on Thursday I can relax into the weekend and focus on some editing and colour grading.

So what’s new. I finally sold my Ephonix MC colour grading control surface and have replaced it with the Ripple Tangent. There are a number of reasons for this, the main one being that the MC Colour is not compatible with Premier Pro and that is my main editing software. Avid and Adobe just do not get on.

Reason number 2 is that the tangent is portable and runs off USB so it’ll be easy to have on set or when I need to get work done and travel and reason number three is it works great with Davinci which I use for colour grading and I have to say I am incredibly happy with it. Here is a few looks I created last week while using it.

I’ll be offering 3D LUT design and Look design and presentation on my website soon but more on that later.