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iPad while Recording a VO

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:44:21 +0000

I have been inside a Recording studio for four days and it saddens me to see all the paper that it is wasted. Even though we recycle and use the paper on both sides.

So last time I took a different route and a nicer one. Even the talent was happier. The only problem is that they we very easily distracted.

“Cuidado con los Leftovers” Wins Telly Award

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:04:06 +0000

We just received or award letter. “Cuidado con los Leftovers” won a 2010 Telly Award. We are very happy that these awards demonstrates our commitment to our work and the quality of production Crexels delivers.

Winner: Best Short Film (Trailer)

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:56:59 +0000

Check out the trailer at LOS CORTOS via this link here

Shooting Green Screen with the RED

admin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:18:31 +0000

We had a great time shooting on a green screen on Thursday. I have to thanks the crew who were great and the entire day went without any problems.

Thanks sooo much

And I look forward to seeing the final product.

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Crexels’ Editing Setup

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:14:39 +0000

I am writing to get an opinion of what I have done. Crexels is a small company. We have two editing systems and a laptop that can edit if needed. All running Final Cut Studio 2.

I wanted to create a server kind of setup where I can edit from any computer without the need to sync material or move material from one place to another.

Since we don’t have the capital to go actual servers and fiber optics, I decided to go ethernet. I upgraded everything to go gigabyte. I got new cables and a new switcher and got a 3 NAS Iomega drives. These drives have two drives inside and are setup as RAID 1 so I have a backup of everything.

I created a couple of folders in the biggest drive. One for Final Cut Projects and the second one for Resources (Inside the resources folders, there are folders for each project). All the rendering is done locally in each machine. I know that sometimes is a pain to render a few times but it is not a big deal for the projects we do. Initially, I try to run uncompress material from the drives but it was impossible, so I made Pro-Ress files from the uncompress originals and put those in the Resources folder and to my surprise it worked perfectly. The timeline in FCP is uncompressed and the Pro-Ress file and the Uncompress have the same name. When is time to output to master, I just reconnect the master file to the uncompressed which is also locally in the large editing system and voila, done.

The total cost of the improvement was about $725
• Netgear JGS516 ProSafe 16-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
• New Cables: about $125
• 3 Iomega StorCenter ix2 – 1 TB (2 x 500 GB) Network Attached Storage

Now, my question to you is what do you think? Can I improve this setup? and how?

A NEW Site

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:06:00 +0000

What a bummer…For the last two days I have been trying to fix the previous website. It got hacked and it was redirecting every page to different sites. Since I just couldn’t fixed it and the hosting company had just a 48 hour backup I decided to start fresh. Get everything out and start from zero.
So here it is. A new look. I really hope you like it. If you find any bugs or think that some areas need to improve, send us a line and we will do what ever we can to improve the site and your experience.

Thanks so much for your understanding

The Crexels’ Team