York administrators no doubt thought they delivered a decisive blow to CUPE when their ploy to split the union, which was inexplicably but eagerly facilitated by a small but persistent faction of 3903’s bargaining team and exec, resulted in unit 2 voting to end their strike. (more…)
Yesterday, out of concern over what I heard about the proposed “tentative deal” reached with York University on Friday, I went down to the CUPE 3903 bargaining team and executive committee meeting to find out what was going on. The Read more…
Dear Bargaining Team members,
First, I’d like to thank you for taking on a largely thankless task. As a former union organizer myself for the UAW at the University of California during my PhD years, I don’t envy the position you are in today. (more…)
I recently shot this raw footage using my 50D, and I thought it might be helpful to walk folks through the post-production workflow process.
In my previous post, I went through the step by step details of installing raw video with the Magic Lantern hack on the Canon 50D. In this post, I’m going to go through setting up Magic Lantern to enable raw recording and what you need to do to be able to actually shoot full 1920×1080 HD raw video. (more…)
DSLR cameras are fabulous for low-budget, DIY filmmaking, but high quality cameras are quite expensive (4K cameras such as the Panasonic GH4 and the Black Magic Cinema camera run $1700 to $3000 respectively, Black Magic Pocket is $1000, and the Canon 5D Mark III sells used for $1400ish – and all of these are prices for the camera body only with no lenses). Many of the less expensive cameras still go for $800-$1000.
But the Magic Lantern hacks for Canon DSLRs offer some very cheap options for building a true DIY production package. By far the biggest bang for the buck is the Canon 50D, a 2008 camera released without video functionality but with the hack can shoot both compressed (with the H.264 format, the same format all the Canon video capable cameras record in) and raw HD video. (more…)
