I divide my time working as a writer, director, and colorist. Based in Manhattan, I do color correction for a wide variety of broadcast programming, narrative and documentary features and shorts, spots, and experimental subjects. I’ve color-corrected programs that have aired on The History Channel, The Learning Channel, BBC Four, and WNET; features and shorts I’ve graded have played at the Telluride, Sundance, Tribeca, Hamptons, and Amsterdam film festivals, among many others; video art pieces I’ve worked on have been exhibited at the NYC Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, and San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. You can check my IMDB listing to see my latest specific credits.
As a director, my hands-on knowledge of the postproduction process lets me maximize resources by taking advantage of technology to improve what’s being done on set, while avoiding over-reliance on “fix-it-in-post” solutions that are more expensive (and painful) to do later. My feature “Four Weeks, Four Hours” has screened at Manhattan’s NewFilmmakers series, and the Colorado Breckenridge, Salento Italy, Portland Longbaugh, Toronto ReelHeART, Hollywood FAIF, and San Fernando Valley film festivals. I’m currently in the midst of developing Starship Detritus, an animated science fiction series.
I also write extensively about color correction and post-production. My latest “Color Correction Handbook: Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema” (Peachpit Press) is planned for release in the Fall of 2010. I wrote a column in “Edit Well” (now excerpted in Edit Well: Final Cut Studio Techniques from the Pros), and my previous books include the “Encyclopedia of Color Correction” and “Advanced Color Correction and Effects in Final Cut Pro.” Working for Apple computer, I wrote Final Cut Studio: Workflows, as well as the user manuals for Color 1.0 and 1.5, Shake 4, and Final Cut Pro versions 2, 3, and 4. On behalf of RED DIGITAL CINEMA, I also wrote the RED Final Cut Studio 2 and 3 Whitepapers.
I also occasionally teach and present, giving seminars in color correction theory and practice for the Graduate Film Division at NYC’s Columbia University, and leading US and international train-the-trainer (T3) classes in Final Cut Pro, Shake, and Color for Apple Inc. I’ve taught end-user Final Cut Pro and Color classes at DV Expo in NYC and LA, and have given presentations on color correction at New York’s Tekserve, the Mopictive users group, NRK, Norway’s Broadcast Mountain symposium, Sweden’s Dramatiska Institutet, and other venues.
