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This month on Splice Vine we're talking about, well…a bunch of stuff: efficiency & optimization, organization, advanced workflows and even wellness. And this week’s podcast is my interview with BitTorrent. I spoke with Porfirio Landeros, Sr. product marketing manager of BitTorrent Budles, Lou Hong, product marketing manager of BitTorrent Sync and Christian Averill, Director of Communications.


We talked a lot about BitTorrent Bundles and BitTorrent Sync, two game changing products that aim to give content creators more control of their content and workflows. But we also talked about BitTorrent's partnerships, philosophy and the resurgence and legitimacy of peering technologies.

BitTorrent


This month on Splice Vine it’s all about organization: storage, backing-up, archiving, media management - you know, DAMs and MAMs. Products like CatDV, Axle and Cantemo Portal. But today’s podcast is my interview with Greg Crosby, product line manager at G-Technology.  


We talked about the new Thunderbolt 2 drives they introduced at NAB this spring, but I also asked him about what they are doing to increase drive literacy, so to speak. There are a huge number of new people coming into our industry, as the barriers to entry continues to fall, but I often notice that many of them aren’t getting indoctrinated in best practices, so as a result, they may not have the media-management fundamentals that will help insure their projects come off without a hitch. 

Drive literacy with G-Technology

This month on Splice Vine it’s all about color: looks, LUTs, grades and gripes. We try to make color fundamentals fun and color futurism, um futile?

Anyway, I recently spoke with my friend, colorist Alex MacLean. It’s been a year since I last interviewed him, so he got me caught up with what’s been going on in his life.

We talked about his role on the amazing 4K diesel punk film Valiant and how his new SF based color boutique Color A GoGo, is  “taking onset grading to a whole new level”.

Color A Go-Go

With SIGGRAPH only a week away in Vancouver, we thought it would be interesting this month on Splice Vine to explore the world of visual effects, motion graphics and animation.
That’s why it’s great to have Gary Chen on this month’s show. He is a San Francisco based motion graphic artist that’s proficient in After Effects and Flame and has worked on many high-level commercials for brands such as Nike, BOSCH, Huawei, Clarins and Heineken.
For many years his trailblazing company Conceptz Media that was based in Taiwan, allowed him to work on a lot of international projects and it gave him a unique perspective on the industry.

We talk about how he got started and how crucial mentorship was to his evolution as an artist, how Rhythm & Hues lives on in Taiwan and his thoughts on the trend of visual effects companies based in the cloud.

Mentorship and Moxie

This is my interview with Saturday Night Live Film Unit video editor Adam Epstein.

I spoke with him moments after he finished the San Francisco leg of his sold-out summer-long traveling workshop, "The Cutting Edge Post-Production Tour". 

In the workshop, Adam slows the SNL bullet train down to bullet time, sharing numerous techniques, theories and editorial insight, all the while using the full, original source media and project files from past shows.

He talks about everything from creativity to codecs and the vital importance of teamwork.

If you didn't get your ticket - no worries.

Starting Aug. 31st his workshop will be available as a digital download at: http://cuttingedge.mzed.com/hd-downloads





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