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 [...]
Don Casper
Producer/Director
Once upon a time, a native of the rolling hills of Glenville, NY learned what a video camera was. Yada yada yada. Don works at Crystal Pix.
About Me
Favorite films:
Dude, where's my car? (an underrated masterpiece)
You can't make me eat:
olives are disgusting... just throwing that one out there.
Favorite links:
Things I can't live without:
food... oh yeah, and toenail clippers. I hate long toenails.
Instruments I try to play:
Guitar
Recent Posts
Signs of the Time To Be Broadcast Across The Country
February 24, 2012 – 4:19 pm
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 [...]
Teen Film Camp
July 26, 2011 – 2:29 pm
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 [...]
Restoring a Masterpiece
June 1, 2010 – 11:38 am
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 [...]
EGG-tastic!
May 7, 2010 – 6:22 pm
In support of the re-branding of the 360|365 George Eastman House Film Festival and inspired by the ad campaign by Partners and Napier, Crystal Pix set out to create memorable trailers to be screened at the front of each film that would promote the festival and work off the concept of the Egg and “Film [...]
Pie In The Face
November 24, 2009 – 5:15 pm
For all you filmmakers out there… here’s the newest short film contest from the folks at the newly-named 360|365 Film Festival here in Rochester, NY. We helped put together this promotional video to announce the theme. Can’t wait to see what entries get sent in for this one!!! See all the entries at: http://www.youtube.com/360365shorts#p/c/D00028754991CD04
Late nights in the edit room
September 4, 2009 – 3:27 pm
Ok, first let me explain… you know how when you get tired you can get a little punchy and start laughing at just about anything? Well here’s one of our absurd rambling’s that we actually decided to do something with. Comedy Central’s Atom.com is sponsoring a contest called Operation Olivia with actress/host Olivia Munn to [...]
Coming Home Shorts Contest
August 13, 2009 – 1:43 am
Crystal Pix worked with the High Falls Film Festival in Rochester, NY to produce this video featuring Rochester’s Mayor unveiling a short film competition. For any and all that are interested…visit: www.rochestersmoviefest.com Go make a film… there might be a thousand smackers in it for you!
Final Cut Pro to Avid DS HD Upconvert Conform – The Project
June 9, 2009 – 9:25 pm
Awhile ago I had a workflow challenge to overcome and thought I would share my experience on it for anyone else who might be doing something similar. I was setting out to create an HD Master of a independent film that was shot here in Rochester called Smoking Laws. You can see a trailer online [...]
Final Cut Pro to Avid DS HD Upconvert Conform – STEP 1 of 3
June 8, 2009 – 9:23 pm
You may ask yourself…why not import the EDL from Final Cut into an HD sequence, then upconvert ALL the raw footage to HD, then conform? Well that would have been the easiest way, but we’re talking about ALOT O FOOTAGE! I don’t remember exactly how much footage but over 40 hours of raws would be [...]