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Cut Notes for Final Cut Pro Rocks Post Production

By Biagio on February 5, 2011 in From the Trenches, Tools with 0 Comments

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I still remember the day Nate Orloff, our assistant editor, came in with his iPad. It was geek-out-at-first-sight. Everyone in the office was excited, myself included. I am a geek, after all, and the iPad was truly Geek-a-licious.

Nate and I even put together a short video showing how to write a screenplay on an iPad using Pages and a screenwriting template we made (this was before there was a plethora of screenwriting apps on the App Store).

When Nate told me his idea for an iPad app called Cut Notes, I was jazzed. It’s only appropriate that Nate found Jon Chappell of Digital Rebellion the same way I found Nate, via Twitter. They partnered up last fall and a few weeks ago, released version v1.0 of Cut Notes for iPad.

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Jon Chappell and Nate Orloff found time to answer a few of my questions about the app and the process making it:
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Free Film Festival Secrets

By Biagio on October 7, 2010 in Featured Post, Tools with 1 Comment

Just a quick post to tell you about an incredible free resource we stumbled upon recently. It’s the site of Christopher Holland, Film Festival Secrets
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Not only is his site jam-packed with information to give you film festival success, but Mr. Holland has written a free e-book that is the must-download free e-book of the decade (excuse my enthusiasm, but it’s terrific.)

Click here to download the full, free e-book, Film Festival Secrets from Christopher’s site.

You Can Also Get the Hard Copy

If you love the free ebook so much that you’d like to show Christopher your gratitude, you can buy the hard copy of Film Festival Secrets: A Handbook For Independent Filmmakers. (WARNING: That’s our Amazon account, so if you get it here, you’re supporting our indy doc Dying to do Letterman.)

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You can find Christopher Holland on Twitter, and of course, if you’re not already doing it, follow us on Twitter, too!

How to Write a Screenplay on the iPad

By Biagio on April 6, 2010 in Tools with 78 Comments

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Yes, We’re Geeking Out

Sure, Final Draft has announced that there will be some kind of iPad version of their screenwriting software, and Black Manna has a screenplay program that runs on the iPhone (which theoretically should work on the iPad in a zoomed in “iPhone” manner, but the company says they’ll be releasing an official iPad version soon.)

In the mean time, if you have your shiny new iPad, and want to write a screenplay in full on iPad mode…what to do?
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New Screenplay Template for iWork: Free.

By Biagio on April 6, 2010 in Tools with 17 Comments

There are some great screenwriting programs out there, both free and paid. Final Draft is known to be the Hollywood standard for paid apps, and the do-it-all-in-one-app-for-free phenom Celtx is a must try. It’s free, after all, and it works like a real screenwriting program (if not feeling the most “Mac” like.)

Here’s another option you might like to try, that turned out a little better than I expected.
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iPad for Film and TV Production: Final Cut Pro & Screen Sharing

By Biagio on April 5, 2010 in Tools with 20 Comments

Is the iPad worth the hype? Can it make a difference in film and TV production?

This is part one of a several-part series that will look at some real-world production and post-production uses for the iPad.

Is the iPad Useful?

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