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Adam Kilbourn

Location Scouting! Projects

Location Scouting!

 We have a client coming to town for a car shoot and they’re looking for a location to capture the sunrise over the Las Vegas desert. That doesn’t sound difficult, but images with a car in the foreground and the desert and sunrise in the background that are still close to town and our location aren’t the easiest to come…
Adam Kilbourn
April 10, 2015
Speakers – Yamaha HS7 vs. HS5 vs. Presonus Eris E5 Reviews

Speakers – Yamaha HS7 vs. HS5 vs. Presonus Eris E5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCPV6hmIsg0 First, I'm not a sound guy.  I know enough about this to know I'm doing a lot of things incorrectly with setup, testing, etc.  That being said I learned some things as I bought and tried out these various speakers that may be useful to someone looking for themselves. Yamaha HS7   Yamaha HS5   Presonus Eris E5  …
Adam Kilbourn
January 13, 2015
Wireless Directors Monitor Review! Nyrius, Small HD, P&C, Nanuk Reviews

Wireless Directors Monitor Review! Nyrius, Small HD, P&C, Nanuk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QuGq7X9UOo   I have wanted a wireless director’s monitor for some time now. When your cameraman sets up his/her shots, you see glimpses of the framing he does, but those looks are quick and the screen is tiny, typically 3 inches or so. Setting up a video village with a larger screen for the director is awesome, and doing it…
Adam Kilbourn
January 8, 2015
exFAT vs NTFS – 1TB External Drive Re-Format: Speed and Allocation Unit Size Stuff

exFAT vs NTFS – 1TB External Drive Re-Format: Speed and Allocation Unit Size

Warning! Technical stuff ahead!  We use a lot of external drives for media work and storage.  We're constantly handing projects off to different people to work on different parts and that means these projects need to be mobile.  It also means that they need to work on both PC's and Mac's.  To do this, we reformat all our drives to…
Adam Kilbourn
November 22, 2014
Price Mistake? Western Digital 2 TB External Hard Drive ONLY $25! Stuff

Price Mistake? Western Digital 2 TB External Hard Drive ONLY $25!

Not sure if Adorama is going to honor this, but they're selling 1TB and 2 TB drives for only $25 on Amazon!  Only certain colors are affected, but if they do honor them, this is the cheapest I've ever seen these things.  - Adam :-)  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EAS8KSW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 UPDATE: Crazy sale!  Within an hour it's done.  I ended up buying a bunch,…
Adam Kilbourn
October 29, 2014
Varaluz – Lightly Twisted Videos

Varaluz – Lightly Twisted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13M050Cc9RY   Lights, camera, Party Time!  Varaluz is an awesome custom lighting company here in Las Vegas that hired us to produce this cool commercial.  Their goal was to make a splash, something that would highlight there brand but not be the same boring stuff they've seen other lighting companies do.  We came up with several ideas, but this concept…
Adam Kilbourn
October 12, 2014
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