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call me cheezy but, in specializing in reality/documentary, I've found the best solution for me is a dimmable LED headlight unit. Yes, I wear it on my head, looking like a coal miner. It allows me to turn the focus of the light, should I be getting a squint by a person I'm interviewing and I can...

Nothing that I know of, since it's not done anymore. You can find flatbeds as display pieces at select post houses and I'm sure you can grab one for little to nuthin' on ebay if you wanna tinker. Today, the movies still shot on film are telecined to digital for post. Fewer and fewer films are...

well, unless you're a banker, a politician or in a pocket pool tournament.

Why did you choose a used title?

nice, Vinny. It's a shame vimeo stuttered it up so. I'd love to see it in it's smooooth native form. Very nice work, man.

It's been a while. Somehow I've become the drive through of video over the years. In turning around projects so fast, reel fodder is hard to come by. It's good to get to spend some time makin' some cool lookin' stuff again. http://grinnerhester.com/reel.html

http://grinnerhester.com/NewDigs.html

an animated mask with darker and blurred background will do it.

I enjoy making behind the scenes shorts for the local brewery's superbowl spots, ect. This one is for this year's Daytona 500 and, being a car enthusiast, this is one of my favorites so far so I thought I'd share it here: http://vimeo.com/9030369 It's fun to watch so many directors work so...

You should check out battery powered LED lights.

+1 awesomeness

If it places anything in perspective, I place my clients in the Avid suite. My kids make their youtube clips with Premiere. That's not being snooty. One can pay off Premiere Pro quickly and easily with one gig and it has great bang for the buck. It's not realistic to think I could plop a client...

Youtube gets more views at noon on weekdays than prime time tv ever did. It's as easy as making content people want to watch but not as easy as just "acting like a retard". It's quick fix viewing. Again, this just means content is king. It doesn't have to tell a story. You could shoot your buddy...

yes, the acting was too bad to hang with and it was shot against a white wall. Content is king on youtube. Don't underestimate the audience... which is everyone. The bottom line is, make something you'd watch. I've gone out of my way to make some of my clips top notch with productin value. They...

My thinking is if you are already thinking about giving up, you should probably do it. Being that this is a passion-driven industry, quitting is not something that should ever enter your head, especially this early in your game. I started pitching shows to networks 20 years ago. I've gotten far...

If wanting to work as an editor, you'll need to learn FCP and Avid to be marketable. If just wanting to create videos, your flavor of choice is fine. AE enhances NLEs with effects they can't do. I have an Avid and not a day goes by that I don't use After Efects to do what it can't. Same with...

great work, man. Skating while shooting is not as easy as some make it look, with or without a glidecam.

Every year, I make behind the scenes documentaries for Anheuser-Busch's superbowl commercials. Here are 3 cool ones for 2010: http://grinnerhester.com/dominos.wmv http://grinnerhester.com/clydesdales2010.wmv http://grinnerhester.com/BLhouse.wmv keep an eye out for the finished spots on...

Dpends on your budget and your goals as an animator. C4D and 3Dsmax are very common applications today. Both are more than capable of doing what you want to do... which is basicly keyframing a chopper and compisiting it. You can use After Effects or something of the like to do the compositing...

Experience. Make some flicks is the short answer. You can learn how other people do it by reading books ar assisting but you'll only develop your own style by doing it. Create a goal and achiave it. Then do it again.