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Quick handheld filming in a busy restaurant!

SHORT FORM CUTDOWNS: if you have a long-form piece for the appropriate channels, ask your video production company if they’re also able to cut multiple shorter versions to maximize reach across all platforms. By optimizing the same project across different formats, you meet your audience where they are, and stand a much better chance of capturing their attention. This is different from shoehorning a tiny segment of a long video into 20-30 seconds (the lazy method); it’s re-formatting the camera-original footage itself such that the video is optimized for whatever format it’s headed for. Each video, while a part of a larger whole, is still presented as its own self-contained content piece. Captured for @willsteedhomes

Recent work for @spothopper_official

Recent work for @spothopper_official

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Same-Day Edit BTS

Hype Trailer for @maryamishtiaq ‘s interview with Forbes — we were challenged to shoot and edit this video in one day and the result turned out great 🔥 This project involved: 🎥 Shooting a short interview in the kitchen, with questions based off the creative brief provided by Forbes 📲 Gathering the best-performing content pieces and remixing them as B-roll in the horizontal format by stacking clips side-by-side, showing multiple angles at once ⏱️ Doing all of this in an 8-hour timeframe; this project came on short notice, so much of the work was done beforehand; when it came time to edit, despite how little time we had, we both had a solid idea of the finished result, so there was no need to figure things out on the fly The final result was this short Hype Trailer that played before Maryam’s interview. The goal was to give the interviewers an immediate impression of Who/What/Why, so they could ask interesting questions that let Maryam shine in her own unique way ☀️

@localbarberfwtx BTS

Restaurant videography BTS 🎥

Making quick work of food shots in a busy restaurant 🍕

PSA for fellow filmmakers Because macOS Sequoia isn’t technically a “supported OS” according to BMD, you can run into issues, which I did. Here’s my workaround BMD says this issue was fixed in the 19.0.1 update but I was still running into the issue. The solution is to turn “Private WiFi Address” to “Fixed.” By default it’s set to “Rotating” which, while it’s a useful extra layer of security, can mess with software that actually references your WiFi address to verify that the software is installed on the same machine. When that address is constantly scrambled, DaVinci Resolve essentially sees a different computer each time A hard lesson was learned — wait 3 months before an OS update!

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