A Big Picture Company

Crystal Pix is moving to a new home for the holidays. All the same great menu options that you’ve come to know and love, in a different building. We’ve relocated our talents to 84 South Main Street in Fairport. It’s a quick jog to the other side of the canal. We hear it’s a little [...]

Congrats to Brian Bailey, Linda Moroney and Allison Weise for bringing the inaugural Rochester Teen Film Camp to life last week at Nazareth College.  I was proud to be a small part of it by providing a seminar on the art/process of editing and working with each group to critique rough cuts. Click here to [...]

Okay, so when you’re in the film/video business, there’s always been a lot of talk about formats … 35mm, Super16, HDCam, XDCam, Digital Beta, DVCPro and blah, blah, blah … But nowadays, HD is the buzzword that is pretty much on everyone’s mind. On the shoot or in the edit the question is always, “Is [...]

Shared Connections 2D tracking is a process which analyzes video in order to follow (track) objects on screen. The process can be used to hide, remove, or even add objects to a shot that were not originally in the composition. The objects appear to be locked to the environment while the camera moves. Shared Connections [...]

Airing tonight on WXXI Public Broadcasting is the world premiere of Restoring a Masterpiece: The Renovation of the Eastman Theatre. Crystal Pix was the post-production facility for this one hour original documentary narrated by Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and co-produced by WXXI and Eastman School of Music. Restoring a Masterpiece: The Renovation of the Eastman [...]