I'm the President, CEO of Magic Feather Inc., a marketing and creative production agency. I've written and produced hundreds of marketing campaigns and content for a wide array of television networks including abc, CNN, TNT, Disney Channel, Jetix, ... [ more] I'm the President, CEO of Magic Feather Inc., a marketing and creative production agency. I've written and produced hundreds of marketing campaigns and content for a wide array of television networks including abc, CNN, TNT, Disney Channel, Jetix, ABC Family, FX, MTV, TLC, and more. My design work has been featured on shows like CBS's "Big Bang Theory", where I created the 3D Bohr atomic transitions used in the actual show.
I'm originally from southern Georgia, have a BS in Comm Arts/Broadcast from Georgia Southern University and currently reside in Stevenson Ranch with my lovely wife Deana.
In 2005 I converted Magic Feather entirely to Mac, and watched my business grow as a result. I love photography, design, and television in general. | | | | Member Since: February 1st 2005 Location: Valencia, CA 91355 | | | | |
Friends:  Adam McCune  Andrew Richards  Chris Kenny  Craig Seeman  Wayan Palmieri | | | | | | Every day we have to restartby John Davidson 16 hours agoHere's a weird thing. Our BMG Decklink Studio Pro card will occasionally slip out of audio sync, to the point that EVERY SINGLE THING that plays through it is delayed about a second. A restart fixes i | | | | |
| | | | | Sharing Metadata between FCPX and CS6by John Davidson 2 days agoSo we just had a meeting about what our new intern could work on. We realized that we're reusing so many shows to make our promos that metada would really be our friend over time. With that in mind we | Re: Sharing Metadata between FCPX and CS6
by John Davidson 23 hours ago
Interesting - Thanks Dennis. Prelude seems pretty useful after playing with it some. We're going to try it out with Premiere on our next spot and go from there. Not sure if my brain can handle learnin
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| | | |  | how to un-partitioning driveby Rob Fourchalk 6 days agoCan someone please help. A year ago I partitioned my drive in anticipation of installing the yet to be released Lion on one partition and keeping snow leopard on the other. I had never gotten around t | Re: how to un-partitioning drive
by John Davidson 2 days ago
I believe you can't just format it easily. I'd either 1. upgrade my hard driver to a bigger better one and then install lion on it, then restore from time machine backup. 2. or clone the drive using s
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| | | |  | Premiere vs. FCPXby Lance Bachelder 6 days agoJust some quick observations. Did a stabilize test on the same clip in FCPX and Premiere - this is on an 8 core Mac with non-CUDA 5770 graphics. Time to analyze took nearly double in Premiere and then+2 | | | | |
| | | |  | A really smooth jump to PP CS6...by Armando Ciurana 7 days agoWe are a medium size production and post-production company, We ve been working in Final Cut Studio seats since 2006, and that work very well for us, we have been working with third party software lik+6 | Re: A really smooth jump to PP CS6...
by John Davidson 7 days ago
Great to hear, Armando. Out of curiosity, what bugs did you encounter I installed the trial last night and a few things made me very happy. Love to know what obstacles I should be prepared for though.
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| | | |  | Any of you kids see any cameras at NAB?by Tim Wilson 2 weeks agoSorry to break in with something off-topic (hahahahaha!), but I've noticed that there hasn't been much camera chatter besides the obviously intriguing Blackmagic Cinema Camera. What else did you see A | Re: Any of you kids see any cameras at NAB?
by Bob Zelin 1 week ago
I just saw the FS700. For someone that has forgotten all about Sony, and didn't even go to the Sony both at NAB - WOW, this is an amazing camera - and if you compare it to products like the C300 - you
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| | | |  | ATI Radeon HD 5770by Don Walker 2 weeks agoATI Radeon HD 5770 Are there any major issues in using this card with an MacPro 4.1 My church bought a one with a NVidia card last year, and it has been giving us fits..... Jerky display both on the d | Re: ATI Radeon HD 5770
by John Davidson 2 weeks ago
We just put one in a 2008 mac pro. Works fine. Also have one in our 2010 mac pro, also not a problem. Initially there were some issues with it when the pro was brand new, but those all went away over
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| | | |  | Cable organizationby Rich Rubasch 3 weeks agoHmmm....where to post Anyone have a clever way of organizing hundreds of audio video cables in a facility We have organized them into boxes by type but it is not ideal. We have wall space but I always | Re: Cable organization
by John Davidson 3 weeks ago
We did ours this way with a bunch of cheap storage boxes from Home Depot. Don't know why the uploader rotated the picture sideways. Just rotate your monitor 90 degrees right and you'll see it better.
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| | | |  | Full new features list for PrPro CS6by David Cherniack 1 month agohttp: success.adobe.com assets en downloads guides Pr_CS6_WN_Reveal.pdf All of them are great. My personal favorite is the CUDA (and openCL) real time (after background analysis) Warp stabilization. H | Re: Full new features list for PrPro CS6
by Gary Bettan 1 month ago
We are still running the promotion: Attention Adobe Editors! Now is the time to make sure all of your existing software is up to date. Buy now to take advantage of significant savings and get upgraded
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| | | | | 5D Mark III video data rateby John Davidson 2 months agoHi guys, Just curious if anyone has ready anything about the new 5D having a higher video data rate. All I see is an option to have interframe vs intraframe compression. Did they really release this c | Re: 5D Mark III video data rate
by Bob Dix 2 months ago
perhaps the data rate of the Mark II to a higher rate does not matter, there appears to be other things to think about DIGIC 5+ Image Processor for enhanced noise reduction and blazing processing spee
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| | | |  | Promise Pegasus slow data transferby Jason Shamai 3 months agoHi there, I just bought the R6 and am using a RAID5 configuration with a 2011 MacBook Pro. I'm consistently getting about 150 or 200MB s when transferring files (usually video) to and from the Pegasus | Re: Promise Pegasus slow data transfer
by John Davidson 3 months ago
Maybe I'm insane, but my Promise p6 was already pre-striped RAID5 and ready to rock when I purchased it in December. It gets read writes in the 550MB s range. I bought directly from Apple - maybe thei
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| | | |  | problem running logic pro 9.9 on osx lion :-)by King Law 3 months agoi managed to upgrade to lion most of my applications r working but im soo mad because i cant run my logic pro 9.0 what tha what i thought apple makes logic pro and this is the only application i have | | | | |
| | | | | qustion on upgrading hard drives mac proby King Law 3 months agoi have a question on upgrading my mac pro (first i have to mention that i had 4 SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.9 HARD DRIVES on it each had 500gigs of space on it until last month i couldint boot my computer | | | | |
| | | | | Hitachi SMART status temps are way wrongby John Davidson 3 months agoHi all, Testing out a new system with ATTO R680 ProAvio 8MS and 3TB Hitachi Deskstar drives. ATTO Config's SMART status is saying the drives are 170-211 degrees, which ATTO says might be why we're get | Re: Postmortem - ATTO isn't providing RMA
by John Davidson 3 months ago
I've built quite a few RAIDs at this point so I wasn't going into it green. I actually enjoy the process usually, but this time I was that one in a million guy who got a defective card. ATTO pretty mu
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| | | |  | Vimeo for sale?by Steve Kownacki 3 months agoThe comments at the end are more entertaining. Posted this not so much as many of us are Vimeo users, but how a little press can sway people to jump ship. You really have to watch what you say, what y | Re: Vimeo for sale?
by John Davidson 3 months ago
WOW! It's like watching his career explode in slow motion. John Davidson President Creative Director Magic Feather Inc.
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| | | |  | Atto R680by Jim Curtis 2 years agoI'm currently running an Enhance E8 MS with a HPT RR3340. I simply don't trust the HPT card, and due to a horrendous customer service experience with them when my last card went bad, I want to go with | Atto R680 / EB8MS / 6Gbs drives update
by John Davidson 4 months ago
Just a little update. We are finally tossing our HPT card for an R680 in an EB8MS chassis and are using the recommended 6Gb s 3Tb Hitachi drives from the Enhance Tech site. According to ProAvio we sho
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| | | | | Mac Mail IMAP problemsby Christopher McDonell 4 months agoI was tempted to chime in on David's post down below as I'm kind of having the same problem. Maybe. After changing my Mac Mail from POP to IMAP, it fails to read data from the server except on start-u | Re: Mac Mail IMAP problems
by John Davidson 4 months ago
I've read that Telus blocks some port access. Might be worth your while to get a gmail account and have it automatically check your Telus account. I never recommend anyone use their ISP's email system
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| | | |  | Bunim/Murray chooses Avidby John Kaley 4 months agohttp: www.thestreet.com story 11364598 1 reality-tv-leader-bunimmurray-productions-selects-avid8217s-professional-editing-and-storage-solutions.html | Re: Bunim/Murray chooses Avid
by Bret Williams 4 months ago
CS6 is their last shot. If they can refine Premiere Pro into something stable and a bit less clunky feeling they'll have a chance. I think they're destined to lose the battle in the end because Avid w
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| | | | | The latest and greatest project management and web posting platformsby John Davidson 7 months agoHey guys, For a long time we've been using iWeb to post our client submission videos on our own site, but in the last year it's just become tiresome to deal with (especially since Apple EOL'd it). SO, | Vimeo Update
by John Davidson 6 months ago
We got it working somewhat on our site now. If you want to check it out just google me. It's not 100% perfect, but we figured out a way to incorporate it without an issue as an iFrame and masking over
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| | | | | FCP 7 install on Lion?by Alison Huckett 9 months agoHas anyone been able to install FCP 7 FCS 3 on a Lion OS I have heard that it works fine on Lion, and that you can install on Snow Leopard and upgrade to Lion, but if I was to get a new computer that | Re: FCP 7 install on Lion?
by John Davidson 9 months ago
I googled and read that Ken Stone link. It's completely wrong, but they cleared it up later in the thread. FCS3 installs on Lion mac's with no problem. There is no rosetta requirement to install FCS3
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