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West Post Offers Self Serve Option
West Post responds to client requests to be able to enjoy the service and comfort offered by West Post's facility but use their own editors.
(click for full story)RED V HDDSLR: The Shoot Out
There's a shoot out happening, but not at the OK Corral or anything. This one is a rough and tumble match-up between two camera systems: RED, and the High Def DSLR family of cameras, generally represented by Canon's 5DmkII.
(click for full story)Kickstarter: Become an Advocate Online
Documentaries and causes have been friends for a long time, but the online world has jump-started the relationship. Kickstarter is one way to get involved. It's a website that alerts you to change-making projects and shows you how you can help them launch. A documentary called FUEL is one beneficiary.
(click for full story)Post production Tips: Dealing with Frame Rate and Format Madness
720p? 1080i? DVC Pro HD or some other format? So many choices. So many decisions. Well, it's time to answer your frame rate and format questions to that you can make the most of your shoot and make post production a happy place.
(click for full story)Corporate Presentation - Image is Everything
A white board is nice, but your listeners expect more when you make a presentation. They want to see stuff. That's particularly important when you need to engage large groups for employee training or for shareholder meetings. Graphs and visuals will help, but video is even better. A video embedded in your Powerpoint or a takeaway DVD will make everyone remember your presentation.
(click for full story)Digital Distribution - Prepping content for iPad and iTunes
If you're a video producer on any platform, sooner or later you will be asked to encode your content, or your client's, onto the iPad or get it ready for iTunes. There are three ways of transferring video to the iPad - a cable, via WiFi or 3G. Want to know about encoding specs? This is the article for you.
(click for full story)How to Prepare for your Offline Edit
Having an action plan for your edit means that you'll be breezing through the assembly of your sequences and have more time to devote to being creative. You'll have a better time and a better product at the end of the session. Sound good? It gets better.
(click for full story)Delivering on Deliverables: How Avatar Raised the Bar
According to The Hollywood Reporter, just before Avatar was released, director James Cameron was working on a tight deadline. It wasn't enough that he had advanced the industry with innovative stereoscopic 3D and trailblazing motion capture techniques. He was also prepping more than 100 different delivery versions of Avatar.
(click for full story)Skiing Everest uses West Post as base camp for all finishing
Santa Monica, CA – 16th March 2009 – West Post Digital has announced completion of finishing on a jointly produced film that turned 50 hours of DV and HDV footage captured by ski mountaineers over the last decade (1998—2008) into the full-length Adventure feature Skiing Everest.
(click for full story)Marathon Finishes at West Post
Santa Monica February 2008 – West Post Digital have announced details of how they assisted Director/Producer Jon Dunham in finishing his Spirit of the Marathon movie project at their Santa Monica facility.
(click for full story)WEST POST achieves all first year objectives after move to Santa Monica media district
Santa Monica, CA--December 13th, 2007--Independent Post house West Post Digital, has just celebrated its one year anniversary in the now fully-operational 20,000 sq ft custom-designed facility opened in November 2006.
(click for full story)2006 Broadcast Engineering Magazine Excellence Awards
Imagine Friday afternoon pulling the plug on a busy 6000sq-ft edit operation, moving all the equipment to a new 20,000sqft facility, and being ready to serve clients on Monday morning. Thats what happened at West Post Digital.
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