Why I returned my 2018 MacBook Pro

I’ve been in the market for a new laptop since 2012 as my mbp is on it’s last legs (batter life is shit and I’m only rocking TB1 ports on it….quite archaic) and I haven’t been impressed with any of the updates thus far….so I’ve been holding off. But recently my laptop’s battery just won’t […]

Sony Venice Review

When I saw a post on facebook from Cinematographer Leland Krane about asking for a DIT for a camera test of Sony’s new flagship camera, the Venice, I was instantly intrigued. I enjoy diving in with these new cameras to get a sort of headstart on the problems and issues, because normally these things take […]

The weakest link

I’m always looking for ways to improve my on set workflow, and I’m pretty late to the SSD game, but I have an idea about switching everything over to TB3 if the new mac pro eventually goes that route. Currently I work off a Mac Mini & the thunderbolt 2 world. For Maisel season 2 […]

LiveGrade v4 – Public Beta

LiveGrade version 4 is here for public beta, you can go download it right now and see for yourself: Try Not everything is intuitive right out of the gate with the new UI, took me a while to find a workspace that I like, and now that I have it set up, I kinda like […]

The Anatomy of a DIT cart, part 1

I know it’s been a while, been meaning to catch up on some much needed blog posts, but I’ve been a bit busy. If you haven’t been following along, the show I worked on this past summer, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon, is sweeping up all the awards. It was a labor of love […]

Parashoot – The safe(ish) card eraser app

I’ve known about this app for a while and just started using this after I heard about an instance where a loader thought they had a card backed up, erased it in disk utility, and then realized it wasn’t actually backed up. To their credit though, it was a few days old from post and […]

LightIron Folder Structure

Got a few requests for this little app so here’s the download link for it. So let’s talk about what this is doing exactly. When you run this app it’s going to prompt you 4 times. For what shoot day it is For your long term storage (for me it’s my RAID) For your local […]

Multi-tasking throttling hot-fix on OSX

A fellow DIT named Alex Carr figured out this fix within OSX that fixes multi-tasking issues when copying to one or more sources. What exactly does this mean and why does it matter? I’m glad you asked. Essentially when you try to copy from one source to another, OSX will prioritize the files in order. […]

Setting up the Teradek COLR to work with the Bullet M2

I’m currently writing a review on my experiences with the Teradek COLR (will update this post to link to that) but I’ve had some questions about how to set up a network to be able to work with it, and I’ve had some difficult issues with it and have finally settled on how best to […]

Coming Attractions

Things have been dark on this blog for good reason. I was on HBO’s Vinyl from May to October and couldn’t talk about my involvement on that at all from a NDA perspective. Now that the show is out I can officially start talking about the workflow and how everything came to pass. So […]