What a night at the annual LAFCPUG Supermeet.  Not only was it the 10th anniversary of the Supermeet but this little company called Apple debuted the all new Final Cut Pro X for a sold-out crowd of over 1500 at Bally’s Hotel in Las Vegas.  I somehow managed to once again have a front row [...]

Greetings from my annual trip to Las Vegas where I’m attending NAB. It’s been a long day first day of the exhibit hall being open and I have some thoughts about the show. No – there’s not anything new from Canon in the form of a 5D Mark 3 or the super camera we are [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog and thought this was a good time to update everyone. As you may of seen from the home page, I’ve changed PF Workshops to training workshops for organizations, companies and groups instead of staging the workshops myself. Trying to juggle my increasingly crazy production schedule and [...]

Melanie Conner shot this fun timelapse of edit day from 8am to 12am.

Five days that changed the world?  Well, maybe not that profound, but I think for this group of professional photographers (and now filmmakers) it changed their world forever in knowing they can now produce documentaries and have new income paths. I knew I had done my job when the group gave-in at 7pm last night [...]

It’s 9pm here in the workshop room.  We are on our 13th hour and open until midnight.  An intense day of editing with the usual FCP problems here and there but lots of laughs along the way.  Melanie Conner has been shooting a timelapse on her Canon 5D which has been going from the time [...]

I’ve been asked a few times what’s the difference between the Platypus Workshops and the PF Workshops.  The answer is simple, the Platypus Workshops, which I teach with my long time colleague and digital icon Dirck Halstead is for those starting out into the world of video.  PF Workshops is an intermediate workshop for folks [...]

It’s been an eerily calm shoot day with only one minor hotline call from Dan Lamont. Platypus Workshop veteran Melanie Conner is shooting her story on the workshop itself and has been hanging out with other workshop attendees in the field in addition to shooting in the workshop room.  Kate Baldwin got back and has [...]

After 12 hours, day one has ended here in Seattle. Expert TA Scott Wintermute and I are eating pizza in the workshop room exhausted from many hours of technical output. One of the great things about doing workshops is to watch people develop their skills and change how they see the world along with how [...]

The next workshop will be in early November. I’m thinking about LA, San Diego, Ft. Lauderdale or New York. Tell me your thoughts on where you would like to see it next. Have Workshop, Will Travel. Leaving Monday night for Seattle’s workshop next week. I’ll update from there. Have a great Labor Day weekend everyone!