Low-Budget Documentary Production Tips: Equipment and a Few other lessons

Low-Budget Documentary Production Tips: Equipment and a Few other lessons

POINT BEING, be prepared TECHNICALLY so that you can concentrate on the CREATIVE. Use the gear that is available and make sure you know the gear in and out.  You cannot afford to miss any moment. 

8 Pre-Production Tips for Independent Documentary Filmmakers

8 Pre-Production Tips for Independent Documentary Filmmakers

At the end of the day our passion for the story, whatever it was going to end up being, was greater than our desire to make money. Dedication, madness, and passion makes movies, not money (but it sure does help).

Two Filmmakers Walk Into a Bar: The O'fish'al Story of Big Brownie

Two Filmmakers Walk Into a Bar: The O'fish'al Story of Big Brownie

Mostly I am writing these posts as a reminder of what I have learned in an effort not to forget. I hope you will get something valuable out of them as well.  My brother Ryan had a quote he loved, "A smart man learns for himself but a wise man learns from others." So my friend, be wise and learn from our mistakes and successes!

So Much Time, So Little to Do...Strike that...Reverse It...

So Much Time, So Little to Do...Strike that...Reverse It...

Holy cow we've been busy! We appear to have been off the map for a little while now, but it's only because we have been so busy on so many projects that we can't keep up with everything, blog posts are clearly at the bottom of our list...

Tips for Getting Adobe Premiere Pro Files into DVD Studio Pro

After much exploration and reading of forums, I finally found what I consider to be the best possible solution to fit a two and a half hour (150 minute) video onto one SD-DVD. Each of these three videos is over two hours, an average of 150 minutes, which is not an easily manipulated size, especially on hard media. I decided I would write this blog to help anyone else who may be struggling to get a quality export from Adobe Media Encoder to be used in DVD Studio Pro.