NAB Day 1

Day 1 of NAB 2011 is over. The exhibits don’t open until Monday so all of today was spent in the classroom where I heard from industry pros discussing new methods and techniques in production and post. I attended a lecture in DSLR  production which was really helpful since the majority of the work we’ve been doing lately is utilizing the Canon 5D for acquisition. I also attended a class in using the color correction software Apple Color. This is a powerful application that can really make your footage look incredible and it’s something that I haven’t really spent a lot of time playing with so it was really nice to see some workflows in the software.

Tomorrow, it’s back to the classroom to attend workshops in Final Cut Server, Adobe After Effects, and Production Sound Design techniques. It may sound super boring, but it’s all tools of the trade that help me make better films.

– Matthew