Author: Dennis Mason

  • New Logo

    For years I’ve been working without a logo. I tried creating a few things myself, but I never liked any of my own designs enough to pursue a finished version. Last month I started looking for some outsourcing possibilities and ended up on the very popular 99designs.com site. I had never before tried a site…

  • Running out of HD video hard drive space!

    High Definition video files, even h.264 compressed video from HD-DSLRs, take up quite a bit of space. My Canon 7D records video at about 300MB/minute. Every time I come home from a shoot I copy the audio and video files onto my editing laptop and back them up to the NAS. I like having a…

  • Tascam DR-100mkII vs. Zoom H4N

    Tascam DR-100mkII vs. Zoom H4N

    For a few years now I've been making do with a two-piece approach for recording from my Rode NTG-3 shotgun microphone. I've had my Roland Edirol R-09 digital recorder for about five years and I like it. It's small and the onboard mics are decent for quick recordings, but it only has an 1/8" mic input. I can't…

  • High Dynamic Range HD-DSLR Video

    I was really excited when I saw that the fine people at Magic Lantern had made HDR video possible on Canon DSLR cameras.  Then I was greatly disappointed when I realized that that Magic Lantern still has no support for the Canon 7D.  Sometimes I wonder if I should buy a second camera body for…

  • The composer has been commissioned

    The composer has been commissioned

    We are very happy to work with Peter Avelar again.  He created the music for our Mofilm AT&T commercial and now he has been commissioned to create the film score for I Hear You.  He is a really talented musician and composer and we're really happy to have him on the team.