FXPHD April Term, NAB 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 3:56PM 
FXPHD have announced their April term, which includes a course called Epic On Location, where Mike Seymour and I learn you up some Epic. FXPHD courses are always amazing. I have a friend who mastered an entire RED One feature on a single Mac Pro using the guidance of past RED courses. In this case, Mike literally got on a plane from LA, where he had just picked up his Epic, and flew straight back to the other side of the planet to start using the camera to shoot for the class. I landed in New Zealand a few days later and within an hour of stepping off the plane, I was hanging upside-down from cables with a camera. We had a blast shooting some amazing footage, from cars, ziplines, and helicpoters, on rigs designed for much larger cameras and rigs designed for lightweight DSLRs.
I can’t recommend FXPHD enough, but in this case, this course truly is the only game in town when it comes to learning about this revolutionary new camera.
I will be at NAB for one day only (I’m slowly learning how not to go), Tuesday, April 12th, joining Mike on stage at the Post Pit (Booth SL12205) to talk more about the camera. Come by and say hi and then push right past me when you realize that the Epic is also there. I’ll understand.
I will also mention a few cool new things from Red Giant Software. Stuff you’ll like.
HD Magazine has an article about our New Zealand shoot, featuring some photos of and by me. More photos can be found at my Flickr site.
Reader Comments (7)
Hi Stu,
Big fan and Colourista user.
On the fxphd course, I'm interested but not sure what I can learn beyond what I know from our regular Red shooting and post production, plus our regular reading of reduser, RC podcasts etc etc. plus the purchase of our epic coming (red #179).
Would you say The course is intro for new comers to the Red world, or also valuable to those who have been in the Red world for a while?
Thanks and look forward to NAB! Got the live RC session in the diary.
Cheers
Wes
Hey Stu - Do exhibit only passes get to check out the post pit ? or do you need to pay extra ?
My understanding is that it's on the show floor, so an exhibits-only badge should do.
Cheers Stu - look forward to seeing you there!
I think I will sign up for FXPHD this terms just for the EPIC class. I did one other term and enjoyed most of it. I wish I could find the equivalent quality and passion of FXPHD that focused more on other aspects of movie making.
Directing, especially directing actors, camera-work from a story-telling perspective, production design, pre-production ... these are the areas that that I've not found covered as well. The only place that comes close is 2 Reel Guys but they only put out one episode per month.
Watch out for the next FXGuideTV podcast ep. its a cracker and rather relevant :-)
@Rob Shaver have you seen the Hollywood Camera Works DVDs and/or seminars? Per Holmes is as passionate as the fxguide/phd guys but about production methods, like blocking and staging and camera work in general. They also have a DVD box set on VFX best practices, great tips on optimum conditions for shooting greenscreen etc.
http://www.hollywoodcamerawork.us/mc_sampleclips.html