Colin Doncaster

I’ve been digging deeper into Cocoa development and should hopefully have a fairly useful application to show for it in a few weeks – I’m targeting a somewhat specific audience – me.  It’s a tool that I missed reviewing shots remotely during a recent project and I imagine a lot of other folks who spend time looking at images, moving or static, would find useful.  More details soon…

My website has had a slight update, the structure of the site is the same but I thought it needed to be a little more fun.  My good buddy Bryan pointed out that it had a similar tone to Jeff Bridges site which stole a good hour of my time after a quick google.  Very cool!

My Canon HF10 is getting some exercise, I shot a 2 year birthday with it a few weeks ago and had a lot of fun working in ‘documentary’ mode – the image stabilization is impressive as I was able to be at full Tele and still shoot fairly stable hand held shots.  It makes it much easier to stand back and catch those special moments.  I purchased VoltaicHD ( Mac version, of course ) from the Shed Worx guys and highly recommend it for anyone dealing with AVCHD video – even if you have FCP or similar.  I now make a straight backup of the AVCHD footage to an external drive, then process all the footage into much more usable Quicktime’s – this means that I know where the source lives ( vs. being pulled into an FCP cache ) and have the flexibility of handling the footage prior to editing.

Lastly, if you’re authouring a script, screenplay, novel or even comic check out Celtx – it’s an “Integrated Media Pre-Production” environment – which means you should download it, and use it.