Jurassic Punk

If you’re reading this blog, you probably know the story — at least, you think you do. As Steven Spielberg began production on 1993’s Jurassic Park, he and Industrial Light and Magic’s Dennis Muren planned to execute the all-important visual effects component of the film’s prehistoric predators using tried-and-true stop- and go-motion animation1. But...

Dec 2022

Lightroom Adds Video Color Editing, with Prolost Presets

From the Lightroom Blog:The same edit controls that you already use to make your photography shine can now be used with your videos as well! Not only can you use Lightroom’s editing capabilities to make your video clips look their best, you can also copy and paste edit settings between photos and videos, allowing you to achieve a consistent aesthetic...

Jun 2022

Mac Studio and Studio Display

Mac Studio with M1 Ultra and Apple Studio Display, running Cinema 4D and Redshift. In October of 2021 I got to test a 14″ MacBook Pro with M1 Max processor. It performed so well, that I, along with many Mac power-users, questioned whether it could replace my desktop Mac. Last...

Mar 2022

M1 Max MacBook Pro Long-term Report

The 2021 MacBook Pro alongside the cable-management fail of my iMac Pro Back in October when I got a chance to use a pre-release 14″ MacBook Pro with M1 Max processor, I openly questioned whether this laptop could replace my venerable iMac Pro. Four months later, I’m back with...

Mar 2022

The M1 Max MacBook Pros

Apple opened their October event with a young musician creating an Apple-inspired music track in a dingy garage filled with gear worth tens of thousands of dollars. Some viewers commented on the unrealistic portrayal of a creative professional. But I felt like I was looking in a mirror.If Apple’s target market for the new MacBook Pros with M1 Pro and...

Oct 2021

Linear Light, Gamma, and ACES

Imagine a digital 50% gray card. In 0–255 RGB values, it’s 127, 127, 127. On the...

Jun 2021

Apple’s “EDR” Brings High Dynamic Range to Non-HDR Displays

Was it worth buying a Pro Display XDR just for this joke? Yes. Apple caused quite a stir with the announcement of their Pro Display XDR, a High Dynamic Range display that occupies a convoluted space in the market. It seeks to be both a Very Nice Computer Display, and a reference...

Dec 2020

Magic Bullet Suite 14 and Trapcode Suite 16

It’s a big day at Maxon/Red Giant! We’re releasing huge updates to Magic Bullet and Trapcode Suites.Trapcode Particular continues to embody our ethos of power and ease-of-use, with a completely modernized simulation engine that allows particles to behave more naturally, with real physics forces working together without limitation. In other words, yes,...

Nov 2020

Circle of Stone

TLDR; a short film I DP’ed is playing tons of festivals, and you can see it stream this Friday!The Call to Action In 2017, my buddy Mark Andrews asked if I would be his cinematographer on a short film. Mark and I went to CalArts together and have been making films together most of our lives, on and off. Most recently we collaborated on Brick &...

Oct 2020

Introducing Prolost Beta

Prolost Beta is a new subscription offering on the Prolost Store. It's an occasional email from me containing a download or a link to something cool I'm working on, that's not quite ready to become a product yet. Or maybe ever. This will most often be Lightroom presets or profiles, After Effects presets, or Apple Shortcuts, but it could be just about...

Sep 2020