Amreeka is a 16mm film about a Palestinian woman who wins immigration to the U.S. from Palestine. The film was shot on Super 16mm in Canada and in the West Bank. We spoke at length with Keith Reamer, editor of Amreeka, about his involvement in production and post-production. He talked at length about the unique challenges of editing a film that is 50% arabic dialogue. Keith offers his perspective on the creative process, and talks about how he worked with director Cherien Dabis throughout the post-production of this film.

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Show Notes

-Matt Jeppsen

-Avid

-FreshDV

-Keith Reamer

-Cherien Dabis

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Film-goers and filmmakers collide in Austin, Texas every March at the SXSW Film Festival and this year may have provided an unseen, “behind-the-scenes” twist as longtime Festival Producer Matt Dentler resigned his position–2009 will be the debut for producer Janet Pierson. It seems to be a bold debut, praising a wide range of films–some movies will make their premiere this week in Austin, some are Sundance and Toronto favorites like Adventureland and Spike Lee’s Passing Strange, as well as a wide range of music-inspired films, and even a film that looks at Japan’s fascination with bugs and another that looks at the world’s fascination with wasted commercial takes from an ill-tempered ’80s Winnebago salesman which somehow became a YouTube phenomenon (seriously).

millimeter Senior Digital Media Editor Craig Erpelding asks the questions to industry-veteran, yet rookie SXSW Festival Producer Janet Pierson.

Show Notes

-2009 SXSW Film Festival

-Janet Pierson

-Spike Lee

-Digital Filmmaking

-”Adventureland Director Greg Mottola (listen to our Sundance interview with Mottola)

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In this issue of HD Focus Craig Erpelding, senior digital media editor for millimeter magazine, talks with Mark Miller of Miller HD–a Vancouver-based production company which produces work for the Discovery Channel–regarding his beta testing of Avid’s latest version of Media Composer, 3.5, announced March 2, 2009. Miller discusses the new editing capabilities available in this version, highlighting the new Avid Media Access (AMA) architecture which provides workflow efficiency on XDCAM- and P2-based workflows. He also touches on the new color correcting tools within Media Composer 3.5.

Show Notes

-Avid Media Composer 3.5

-Sony XDCAM

-Miller HD

-Avid Media Access (AMA)

-Tapeless HD Workflow

-Editing

-Color Correction

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Caesar Schultz is an up-and-coming professional boxer who decided to take on the prize fighting industry’s ruling class-the promoters-by creating his own web video series to build interest and market himself. As a “Gym Warrior” most of his life, he had no prior expertise in shooting or editing video at all–however researching what makes certain television and webisodes successful pointed Schultz in the right direction on how to create a successful web video series–including how to encode and distribute to various audiences. Schultz discusses his experiences with millimeter Senior Digital Media Editor Craig Erpelding.

Show Notes
- ImmortalCaesar.com
- Canon XL H1
- Apple Final Cut Pro/Compressor
- Apple MacBook Pro
- HD Video
- Video Encoding for the Web
- Web Series Creation

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In this issue of HD Focus, we get an overview of the postproduction workflow used on The Tracey Ullman Show, which is in its second season on Showtime. The creative team just went to a Red Digital Cinema Red One digital acquisition system and now shoots 4K—the postproduction is handled via four Avid Media Composer systems. For insight on the new workflow, millimeter Senior Digital Media Editor Craig Erpelding speaks with Editor Guillaume Aubuchon, who works on the postproduction team for The Tracey Ullman Show.

Show Notes
- Red Digital Cinema
- Avid DNxHD Codec
- Avid Symphony Nitris
- Da Vinci Color Correction
- Digtial Production
- HD Trends

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