Nerd Talk

Mobile UI/UX Proof of Concept

Prologue I will say, this project was born out of a strange, confusing, and quite frankly stressful time. My job description was very much up in the air, and and there was even uncertainty around this entire project. Unfortunately, this project never saw the light of day, but I have been searching hard drives all…

October 18, 2019
How to Fix Write Permissions For DaVinci Resolve

Here’s how to fix write permissions for DaVinci Resolve. To fix this, just open a terminal and run: chmod -R 766 /your/problem/drive/or/directory What’s Going On? On linux, security is brilliantly built in. By default, files and folders that you create have a set level of permissions (defined by the umask command). Typically, the default is…

October 4, 2019
Transcode Files for Davinci Resolve 16

Today I learned that you only have to transcode files to import them into the free version of Resolve. If you’re rocking the full version, then this shouldn’t really apply, unless you have an absolutely crazy file format on your hands. Didn’t We Already Cover This? So this stems off a previous blog post from…

September 30, 2019
Locate Files using Terminal

Let’s locate files using the terminal! This is just a cool little trick you can use if you’re doing a bunch of stuff in the terminal, and you don’t want to leave, or you’re just interested in cool terminal tricks. Let’s say you’re looking for a file, anywhere on your machine, but you don’t know…

September 23, 2019
Batch Process FFMPEG

Batch Process FFMPEG An incredible use case for simple Bash scripting is the ability to batch process ffmpeg tasks. First off, I’ll assume you guys have got a basic understanding of FFMPEG, what it is, how to install and use it, that kinda thing. If not, feel free to check out the basics. FFMPEG is…

September 16, 2019
Here Is The Church

For this project, Tim Searfoss, Dan Fajardo, and myself had a very cool opportunity to work with the talented Quina Aragon, on a project entitled “Here Is The Church”. The project featured a spoken word piece performed by Quina and focused on the power of the church when it shows up in real life situations.

September 13, 2019
Switching from Windows to Manjaro Linux

I use Adobe CC on a Windows machine for my video production pipeline at work. I do video side work on the weekends, and have used Windows and Adobe for those projects as well, but I’ve always felt trapped. Like I’m a slave to Adobe or something. I’ve spent most of my professional career learning…

September 9, 2019
[VIDEO] “Never Forgotten” Full Animation

Well… I guess it’s time. I’ve been working on this animation for longer than I care to admit, but I’m definitely ready to release this thing into the wild, take my lessons and move on. And when I say ‘lessons’… I mean LOTS of lessons. And I’m so glad I tackled this project the way…

September 5, 2019
[VIDEO] Procedural Texture Mapping

The Problem I’ve got a procedural texture that I’m happy with. It’s been fine for still renders. But when I animate the object, the texture slides around. I figured the obvious solution would be to bake down the procedural texture into a regular UV image map(s) like diffuse, specular, AO, roughness, etc. But when I…

August 26, 2019
[VIDEO] “Never Forgotten” Series Teaser 2019

Still working on a handful of shots right now, but here’s what I have so far. I learned a TON of new stuff with this project and had a blast!

August 19, 2019