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Is your website ADA compliant?

Website construction in our early days involved taking a company print brochure and translating it into some basic HTML with JPGs and Gifs. Everyone remembers the animated construction worker used to denote 'content not ready yet'. Yup, we were guilty of using that a...

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Better interviews, better b-roll

I wanted to share a few tips to for setting up better video content. This article is designed to give our clients a better understanding of how to utilize time with a film crew and get the best out of the time allotted for a shoot. These principles can be applied in...

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What were you doing 22 years ago?

This month Allied Pixel celebrates our 22nd year in business. Which got me to thinking about the early days. Do you remember what you were doing in the summer of 1993? I do. I was shooting a tv commercial for a radio station in Baltimore. Back in those days, we shot...

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Halt and Catch Fire

Who else has been watching this series? Halt and Catch Fire is in its second season on AMC, winding down to the season finale this past Sunday night. The show centers around a group of characters that are all chasing their entrepreneurial tech dreams during the late...

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Why does it look like that?

It's not uncommon to hear clients, directors, producers and others on set ask me, “Why does it look like that?” when referring to the camera monitor. Why does the footage look unsaturated, washed out, almost gray? We like to take a cinematic approach to shooting all...

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4K in an HD World

In a previous article I expressed my concern for the push into the 4k revolution. Here I would like to explain how 4k can benefit and work for your organization. Let's briefly talk about what 4K even means. For the longest time the standard has been full HD (1920x1080...

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Is Your Website Healthy?

Google Webmaster Tools is a free service offered by Google to monitor the health of your website as seen by the (spider) eyes of Google. How often do you check the health of your website? There are some important stats Webmaster Tools provides that will help you tune...

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Fix it Later

As a cinematographer you need to have full confidence in the gear you have. You must also make sure you have the right tools for the job. Shooters these days have to be up to speed with the latest tech, and I’ll tell you that's a job in itself. So there I was,...

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Tools of the Trade

People often ask us what software tools we use to get the job done, or what we'd recommend for a particular task. Here's a rundown, organized by function. Project Management We use Google Apps for email, calendars and contacts. Basecamp for project management and...

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