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Clandestine Will Play at the Atlanta Film Festival

While it was a tremendous honor for Clandestine to hold its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, one very important thing was missing: all of our friends, family and supporters. We are fortunate to say that we have supporters all around the world, but only two locations can provide us with the opportunity to gather the maximum amount of you in one place in time. One is Mobile, Alabama, and the other is Atlanta, Georgia. We are happy to announce that the latter will take place as part of the Atlanta Film Festival 2010.

The Atlanta Film Festival has been held annually for 33 years, and this year, it’s 34th, will take place on April 15th - 23rd. We don’t know yet when Clandestine will play exactly, but we are hoping for a good time slot to so you can all attend. More details can be found here as soon as we have them.

Thank you all for your lasting support; we hope to see many of you there.

» Mod Mobilian reviews "Clandestine"

This week, Doc at Mod Mobilian wrote a kind review of Clandestine, and in doing so, has reminded us of how incredible the support from Mobile has been. The Doc says Clandestine “is not just a documentary – it is an examination of deceit and “ciphering” in familial communications as well as international espionage”. We hope this will get the town excited for the Mobile premiere of Clandestine which is soon to come.

Thanks Mobile, and thanks Doc!

» No money to upgrade: 11 ways to optimize your mac

Needed my mac (OS X 10.4, 933MHz PowerPC G4, 1.5 GB SDRAM) to run faster, so googleied it and found this article to be pretty helpful.

Fuzzy Image rendering in After Effects Solution

I was compositioning two radio DJ’s together from different takes. The reactions of one was better in one take but I liked the performance of the speaker in another. Since it was a static shot I had was able to take a mask of one take and overlay it on the other. No big deal.

However, that DJ that I cropped in would render blurry once I saw it in Final Cut Pro. Started looking it up and learned a whole lot about how to maintain De-interlacing during export. This article was extremely useful from Adobe. Yet after trying so many different ways of exporting for 8 or so hours, and varying results, none acceptable. I had and epiphany. I went back to my composition. Selected the track that was blurred. Pressed the up arrow, moving my clip up 1 pixel. Exported, and aaaaaaahhh. Nice.

So the my masked clip was wedged between two pixels rendering it incorrectly. Moving it up on created proper pixel alignment. Time not wasted completely, learning about working with interlaced footage in After Effects will no doubt come in handy.

» Clandestine

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