The creative community loses a multi-talented inspiration. Designer, author, and filmmaker Hillman Curtis sadly passed away on April 18th after a three year battle with cancer. At only 51, Curtis leaves behind an impressive body of work which includes numerous award-winning short films and the feature-length film Ride, Rise, Road about David Byrne and Brian Eno.
5.05.2012
Rest in Peace: Hillman Curtis
The creative community loses a multi-talented inspiration. Designer, author, and filmmaker Hillman Curtis sadly passed away on April 18th after a three year battle with cancer. At only 51, Curtis leaves behind an impressive body of work which includes numerous award-winning short films and the feature-length film Ride, Rise, Road about David Byrne and Brian Eno.
4.29.2012
RED EPIC 5k Video Production Now Available
Are you developing your latest indie film? A Web video or TV spot campaign? Maybe it's an educational, training or recruiting video for your business. Whatever your "image" project calls for, you need to make a credible, memorable impact.
Our video arsenal begins here. We now have the RED EPIC digital cinema camera. The name is not an overstatement. The much anticipated addition to the RED family is the answer to the professional's wildest dreams and exists as the most sophisticated and capable camera ever engineered and built. The EPIC captures up to 300 frames per second. Its 5K, 14 megapixel resolution exceeds 35-millimeter film quality. It has unparalleled slow-motion and depth-of-field capabilities.
Professional, experienced and 100% reliable, Del Padre provides one stop shopping for all video production needs. If you have a message to deliver, a vision to share, or a product to launch,video is vital to your business. Non-Linear Editing, Compositing, 2D and 3D Motion Graphics, In-house Sound Recording Studio and the Best in the Industry Voice Over Talent are used in conjunction to create a powerful advertising campaign.
Digital Cinematography Showreel
1.14.2012
Imagineer Systems Mocha Pro Review
This Incredibly Fast 64-bit Planar Tracker Will Help Any Facility Save Time Changing Elements in Even the Most Complicated Scenes - Nino Del Padre
The slight of hand we, as video editors, have to accomplish on a daily basis gets a little maddening at times. It's considered an easy day when all you have to do is blur out a copyrighted logo on someone's shirt who is moving in place slightly. No biggie. Then a couple of days before the deadline, the client calls and says legal can't clear a billboard and it needs to be removed. You know, that one behind his head... and a clump of trees... while the camera pans around them. That's when a good planar tracker comes in.
To handle that billboard, I typically go into After Effects, manually place the insert for the billboard and create and animate a mask for the object that is in front of said trees and talent. At least that’s how I used to do it. Then I found Mocha, from Imagineer Systems.
With a few quick splines, we were able to insert footage of the most updated versions of the app using the same original shot and create a clean roto for out talent's hands (the results are seen below). Without Mocha we would have had to re-shoot again just to show a slightly different menu in use.
Feature Sets
In addition to its existing planar tracker and rotoscoping tools, Mocha Pro adds a number of other features that help get the job done swiftly and efficiently. Mocha Pro's "Insert" feature tackles even tough movement situations, such as motion blur, with great results, and includes the ability to render out inserts with alphas so they are usable in other scenes. For further refinement, the mesh warp tool lets you distort the insert and make them “bend” around objects with more difficult angles. The 3D offset means you can further tweak tracking data, such as depth and rotation, making even subtle changes to the perspective of the surface easy to compensate for.
With Mocha Pro's removal tools, tracked layers are analyzed, taking lighting and shifts in luminance into consideration. With this tool, you can accurately remove objects behind other objects by “predicting” what is behind it; the calculations are based on what it found elsewhere in the footage. Removing simple things like boom mikes or even entire objects takes much less time than it did in the previous version. You can even get granular and use the software to remove blemishes and do digital makeup retouching.
All of your planar tracking and roto data can be exported to After Effects, Flame, Fusion, Nuke and a bunch of other important hosts.
A Very Easy Learning Curve
I found Mocha Pro much easier to use and learn than point tracking, where you draw a little box around a few pixels that have a high contrast and a bigger box around the area that you want to search. Point tracking works as long as you have a clear point to track. However, as the light in your scene changes, the perspective changes or the point is inevitably blocked by something else and the track will get lost and wander off.
Mocha Pro is a separate program and opens on your system onto one large window, which can be re-sized and moved around. The controls are laid out very well and once you figure out what the icons mean, it is pretty straightforward.
The tutorials on the Imagineer web site are really well done and offer in-depth lessons on almost every one of Mocha Pro's many parts. The online manual is also really good, with step-by-step instructions with pictures.
Performance
Mocha Pro is fast and we've found that it moves pretty quickly through HD files, producing amazing results. It takes a few minutes to make the tracks, depending on how complex and long they are. The way the software makes roto-masks and tracks them is where it really shines, however. The speed with which it does this means you'll blaze through most of your rotoscoping tasks. I'm talking about cutting times in half and, sometimes, even cutting the time down to 10% of the original. We've saved hours on each rotoscope job.
Nino Del Padre launched his Del Padre Digital in 1991. Today he oversees a business that now encompasses digital cinematography services, animation and interactive design solutions to ad agencies, corporate clients, broadcast networks and the entertainment industry, as well as partnerships with institutions as diverse as LEGO, Hasbro and NASA.
The slight of hand we, as video editors, have to accomplish on a daily basis gets a little maddening at times. It's considered an easy day when all you have to do is blur out a copyrighted logo on someone's shirt who is moving in place slightly. No biggie. Then a couple of days before the deadline, the client calls and says legal can't clear a billboard and it needs to be removed. You know, that one behind his head... and a clump of trees... while the camera pans around them. That's when a good planar tracker comes in.
To handle that billboard, I typically go into After Effects, manually place the insert for the billboard and create and animate a mask for the object that is in front of said trees and talent. At least that’s how I used to do it. Then I found Mocha, from Imagineer Systems.
With a few quick splines, we were able to insert footage of the most updated versions of the app using the same original shot and create a clean roto for out talent's hands (the results are seen below). Without Mocha we would have had to re-shoot again just to show a slightly different menu in use.
Feature Sets
In addition to its existing planar tracker and rotoscoping tools, Mocha Pro adds a number of other features that help get the job done swiftly and efficiently. Mocha Pro's "Insert" feature tackles even tough movement situations, such as motion blur, with great results, and includes the ability to render out inserts with alphas so they are usable in other scenes. For further refinement, the mesh warp tool lets you distort the insert and make them “bend” around objects with more difficult angles. The 3D offset means you can further tweak tracking data, such as depth and rotation, making even subtle changes to the perspective of the surface easy to compensate for.
With Mocha Pro's removal tools, tracked layers are analyzed, taking lighting and shifts in luminance into consideration. With this tool, you can accurately remove objects behind other objects by “predicting” what is behind it; the calculations are based on what it found elsewhere in the footage. Removing simple things like boom mikes or even entire objects takes much less time than it did in the previous version. You can even get granular and use the software to remove blemishes and do digital makeup retouching.
All of your planar tracking and roto data can be exported to After Effects, Flame, Fusion, Nuke and a bunch of other important hosts.
A Very Easy Learning Curve
I found Mocha Pro much easier to use and learn than point tracking, where you draw a little box around a few pixels that have a high contrast and a bigger box around the area that you want to search. Point tracking works as long as you have a clear point to track. However, as the light in your scene changes, the perspective changes or the point is inevitably blocked by something else and the track will get lost and wander off.
Mocha Pro is a separate program and opens on your system onto one large window, which can be re-sized and moved around. The controls are laid out very well and once you figure out what the icons mean, it is pretty straightforward.
The tutorials on the Imagineer web site are really well done and offer in-depth lessons on almost every one of Mocha Pro's many parts. The online manual is also really good, with step-by-step instructions with pictures.
Performance
Mocha Pro is fast and we've found that it moves pretty quickly through HD files, producing amazing results. It takes a few minutes to make the tracks, depending on how complex and long they are. The way the software makes roto-masks and tracks them is where it really shines, however. The speed with which it does this means you'll blaze through most of your rotoscoping tasks. I'm talking about cutting times in half and, sometimes, even cutting the time down to 10% of the original. We've saved hours on each rotoscope job.
Nino Del Padre launched his Del Padre Digital in 1991. Today he oversees a business that now encompasses digital cinematography services, animation and interactive design solutions to ad agencies, corporate clients, broadcast networks and the entertainment industry, as well as partnerships with institutions as diverse as LEGO, Hasbro and NASA.
11.07.2011
RED EPIC Camera Arriving Soon
The name is not an overstatement. The much anticipated addition to the RED family is the answer to the professional's wildest dreams and exists as the most sophisticated and capable camera ever engineered and built. In a package one third the size of a RED ONE, resides a 5K Mysterium-X™ sensor and a 27 layer ASIC, the most advanced processor of its type in the world, enabling EPIC to capture up to 300 frames per second, each frame at full 14MP resolution. EPIC is engineered to be a DSMC™ (Digital Still & Motion Camera), a camera that excels in both worlds ... by design. Providing native dynamic range of over 13 stops and resolution that exceeds 35 mm motion picture film, this is the camera of the epoch. Add to that RED's newly developed HDRx™ extended dynamic range technology and EPIC boasts an amazing dynamic range of up to 18 stops.
The product of years of research and development by the world's leading engineers, EPIC represents the state-of-the-art in digital acquisition and positions RED as one of the world leaders in sensor design. Built upon the enormous success of the company's first camera, the RED ONE, EPIC represents the culmination of an effort to produce the world's best camera, as at home in the still photographer's world as it is in the motion picture world. Based on the concept of DSMC (Digital Still & Motion Camera) EPIC provides a camera with a 14MP sensor capable of shooting from one frame to 120 frames per second. Blurred forever is the line dividing still and motion.
Peter Jackson's two film adaptation of The Hobbit will be shot in 3D using RED DIGITAL CINEMA'S EPIC Digital Cameras.
The Hobbit will be amongst the first productions in the world to use the EPIC and 48 cameras will be required by the 3-D production. The EPIC'S small size and relatively low weight, makes it perfect for 3-D – where two cameras have to be mounted on each 3D rig.
Jackson has a long history with RED, dating back to when he directed the short film 'Crossing the Line' as a very early test of prototype RED ONE cameras. "I have always liked the look of RED footage." he says, "I'm not a scientist or mathematician, but the image RED produces has a much more filmic feel than most of the other digital formats. I find the picture quality appealing and attractive, and with the EPIC, Jim and his team have gone even further. It is a fantastic tool, the EPIC not only has cutting edge technology, incredible resolution and visual quality, but it is also a very practical tool for film makers. Many competing digital systems require the cameras to be tethered to large cumbersome VTR machines. The EPIC gives us back the ability to be totally cable free, even when working in stereo."
Nino Del Padre
http://www.delpadre.com
http://www.delpadre.com
9.26.2011
Aimee Allen Music Video Los Angeles Movie Awards Winner
LOS ANGELES September 26, 2011 - Del Padre Digital is thrilled to announce that the Aimee Allen “Calling The Maker” music video has just won two awards at the prestigious Los Angeles Movie Awards 2011. The video was competing in the music video category and won the Award for "Best Production Design" as well as an "Award of Excellence"
Director Nino Del Padre’s dark, Gothic video for US singer-songwriter Aimee Allen mirrors the twisted stark soundtrack of the single “Calling The Maker” from her album A Little Happiness.
The Los Angeles Movie Awards mission is to celebrate Independent Motion Picture and Literary Arts by providing a platform for filmmakers and writers to have an opportunity to be awarded for their work.
About Aimee Allen
Anybody can have their "rock," "punk" or "folk" phase—real artists transcend boundaries and genres so gracefully that their fans hardly blink an eye. Aimee Allen is that type of songwriter. The explosive, outspoken voice behind modern rock monsters "Revolution" and "If It Feels Right" (not to mention contributions to the Grammy-nominated Hairspray soundtrack and multiple best-selling, critically-acclaimed artists) unveils a more serene side of her personality on A Little Happiness. Despite her decision to record the album in the depths of a desolate Indiana winter, Happiness radiates her sense of home in the California sunshine—its 11 introspective, largely acoustic tracks conjure the simple bliss of a drive down to the Pacific.
The title of the record really says it all—on A Little Happiness, she courageously explores the reaches of elation and despondency, but never strays too far from the healthy, cautious optimism that defines her signature autobiographical storytelling. Allen's strongest collection of songs to date honors the painful journey she took to create them. "I've made a lot of lyrically shocking and dark music in the past. But once you have a brush with death, things change. I'm just stoked I've made a record that shines a little light, ya know?"
About Nino Del Padre
Nino Del Padre is a cinematographer who's been shooting and editing music videos, commercials, shorts, corporate and industrial spots professionally for twenty years. Clients include LEGO, Deftones, NASA, Tama Drums, NetFlix, Ibanez, Alice In Chains...etc. Learning through hands on experience and devotion to the art, Del Padre continuously strives to push beyond his own boundaries.
Del Padre has been honored with over 20 industry awards including honors from the Telly Awards, Addy Awards, named "Top 100 Producers" by Studio Monthly magazine's rundown for three consecutive years and “A Search For New Heroes”.
Del Padre founded Del Padre Digital in 1991, a hybrid production company; specializing in the field of advanced digital media, providing video production, mobile application design, custom software deployment and interactive marketing.
View “Calling The Maker” and other work by Del Padre at http://www.ninodelpadre.com
Director Nino Del Padre’s dark, Gothic video for US singer-songwriter Aimee Allen mirrors the twisted stark soundtrack of the single “Calling The Maker” from her album A Little Happiness.
The Los Angeles Movie Awards mission is to celebrate Independent Motion Picture and Literary Arts by providing a platform for filmmakers and writers to have an opportunity to be awarded for their work.
About Aimee Allen
Anybody can have their "rock," "punk" or "folk" phase—real artists transcend boundaries and genres so gracefully that their fans hardly blink an eye. Aimee Allen is that type of songwriter. The explosive, outspoken voice behind modern rock monsters "Revolution" and "If It Feels Right" (not to mention contributions to the Grammy-nominated Hairspray soundtrack and multiple best-selling, critically-acclaimed artists) unveils a more serene side of her personality on A Little Happiness. Despite her decision to record the album in the depths of a desolate Indiana winter, Happiness radiates her sense of home in the California sunshine—its 11 introspective, largely acoustic tracks conjure the simple bliss of a drive down to the Pacific.
The title of the record really says it all—on A Little Happiness, she courageously explores the reaches of elation and despondency, but never strays too far from the healthy, cautious optimism that defines her signature autobiographical storytelling. Allen's strongest collection of songs to date honors the painful journey she took to create them. "I've made a lot of lyrically shocking and dark music in the past. But once you have a brush with death, things change. I'm just stoked I've made a record that shines a little light, ya know?"
About Nino Del Padre
Nino Del Padre is a cinematographer who's been shooting and editing music videos, commercials, shorts, corporate and industrial spots professionally for twenty years. Clients include LEGO, Deftones, NASA, Tama Drums, NetFlix, Ibanez, Alice In Chains...etc. Learning through hands on experience and devotion to the art, Del Padre continuously strives to push beyond his own boundaries.
Del Padre has been honored with over 20 industry awards including honors from the Telly Awards, Addy Awards, named "Top 100 Producers" by Studio Monthly magazine's rundown for three consecutive years and “A Search For New Heroes”.
Del Padre founded Del Padre Digital in 1991, a hybrid production company; specializing in the field of advanced digital media, providing video production, mobile application design, custom software deployment and interactive marketing.
View “Calling The Maker” and other work by Del Padre at http://www.ninodelpadre.com
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| The Los Angeles Movie Awards Award of Excellence |
8.04.2011
Aimee Allen music video featured on Promo News
"Nino Del Padre’s dark, gothic promo for US singer-songwriter Aimee Allen mirrors the twisted stark soundtrack of new single Calling The Maker from her album A Little Happiness."
Celebrating the best in music video creativity, daily updates of music video news and information, links to high quality video files, and its ever-expanding archive – Promo News is the first stop for everyone who loves music videos, and everyone who makes music videos.
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Celebrating the best in music video creativity, daily updates of music video news and information, links to high quality video files, and its ever-expanding archive – Promo News is the first stop for everyone who loves music videos, and everyone who makes music videos.
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6.15.2011
Aimee Allen "Calling the Maker" Music Video
Aimee Allen "Calling the Maker" Music Video
Directed by Nino Del Padre
View more info and high rez video here
Nino Del Padre
http://www.delpadre.com/
Directed by Nino Del Padre
View more info and high rez video here
Nino Del Padre
http://www.delpadre.com/
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