The Crystal Pix Blog“Extraordinary starts from nothing, and takes everything.” What does nothing sound like? What does extraordinary sound like? Wouldn’t it be cool to write the music using only the dialogue from the script? When Crystal Pix producer/director Don Casper approached me about creating a custom music track for the opening video to the 2012 Addy Awards these [...]
Back in the day, there was 4×3, then HD came along with 16×9 widescreen for home entertainment, of course there was always Cinemascope widescreen used in theaters to showcase panaoramic shots used in many spaghetti westerns… But for the Addy Awards presentation in 2012, Crystal Pix teamed up with the creative minds at StormFrog [...]
Signs of the Time makes its North American broadcast premiere starting this spring on public television stations across the country. Produced in high-definition by Crystal Pix, Inc. of Fairport, New York, the film has enjoyed critical acclaim at film festivals across North America and has received “Best Documentary” awards five times. Signs of the Time [...]
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 [...]
Recently, Paychex came to us with an idea for a video that needed to play within a new microsite that they were launching. Actually, it was 3 videos, 2 of which needed to play simultaneously. The first video was a short introduction video that required 1 shot only … a man in a chair sitting [...]
In this age of airport and airline security, it can be difficult to gain the full access you need to shoot a product video on an airplane with all the crew, equipment, lighting, talent, extras and props that you need. So what do you do in that scenario? You create the interior of a 737 [...]