Specialist in medical education and training, surgical video production, distance learning, multimedia based education, project management.
I dabble in book publishing, website design and DIY projects. Any excuse to buy tools is a good one! | | | | Member Since: April 11th 2001 Location: Connecticut, USA | | | | |
Friends:  Abraham Chaffin  Alvaro Lanciai  Archie Cruz  Ariane Fisher  David Braswell  David Scandlyn  Don Walker  Franklin McMahon  grinner hester  Jeani Primes  Kathlyn Lindeboom  Mark A. Stuart  Paul Del Vecchio  Peter John Ross  Robert Nitko  Ronald Lindeboom  Tim Wilson  Tom Meegan  Ty Yachaina | | | | |  | Blog: 3D Television Networks: 3 Years Laterby Chris Blair 1 day agoBy Chris Blair I published the original post below in July of 2010, saying I couldn’t imagine how 3D television networks could find an audience, and more importantly, lure enough advertisers to | Re: 3D Television Networks: 3 Years Later
by Mike Cohen 9 hours ago
well said - being on the cutting edge is very expensive to early adopters I took a tour of ESPN last year - they had a 3D monitor outside the cafeteria, which was about the only mention of 3D in the w
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| | | | | Man of Steelby Mike Cohen 2 days agoSuper awesome. I can't think of anything bad about this movie. It is closer to the Avengers than it is to previous Superman films. You can definitely see the Nolan influence although it feels familiar | Re: Man of Steel
by Scott Roberts 7 hours ago
I think I have to be a contrarian on this one, guys... I didn't hate Man of Steel by any means, but I just wasn't all that impressed with it. Having seen it a few days ago, when I try to think about i
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| | | |  | A Confession.by Kylee Wall 2 weeks agoI hate The Fifth Element. Everyone loves it. It has so many elements I should love. But I hate everything about it. I hate Leeloo. I hate the story. I hate the opera singer. I hate the art direction a | Re: A Confession.
by Mike Cohen 2 weeks ago
Interesting story about the original THX movie from when Lucas was a grad student at USC. He wanted to shoot a film in color, but color was only available for teaching, not for student films. So Lucas
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| | | |  | Blog: May 10, 2013by Bill Megalos 2 weeks agoMy last day here, I wake with excitement and a bit of sadness, dreading saying goodbyes. I m in the fancy Saddam guestroom, the rest of the guys are scattered across the campus and it s the first chan | Re: May 10, 2013
by Mike Cohen 2 weeks ago
What a fascinating series of articles, and a great project you are involved with. Mike Cohen
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| | | | | Lincolnby Scott Roberts 7 months agohttp: www.youtube.com watch v=KJVuqYkI2jQ Premise: Abraham Lincoln, sitting atop a giant purple tiger named Choodari, leads an army of George Washington android clones against a reptilian force from a | Re: Lincoln
by Mike Cohen 4 weeks ago
I watched Lincoln 1.84 times over the weekend. First, I watched the Bourne Legacy with my wife and stayed awake for 98.7% of it. Let me preface the above by stating that I rode 11.2 miles on my bike e
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| | | | | What are you watching on the pay channels?by Kylee Wall 1 month agoI'm sorry, I'm littering the forum with my nonstop replies. I've been doing a lot of backups and archives the last couple days, okay Stop judging me. What's everybody watching on HBO and Showtime and | | | | |
| | | |  | Star Wars Pancakesby Stephen Smith 4 months agoWe mentioned Star Wars Pancakes a while back. I finally was able to make the Millennium Falcon thanks to Jims Pancakes. I think they turned out so good I added Pancake Artist to my list of Skills on L+2 | | | | |
| | | |  | Blomkamp's Elysiumby Mark Suszko 2 months agohttp: www.youtube.com watch feature=player_embedded&v=EJ-bYOyQ46Y | Re: Blomkamp's Elysium
by Mike Cohen 2 months ago
Impressive - the realism of post District 9 sci-fi machinery is really making such films better. Not every film with this breed of new tech is good (Battle LA Batteship, etc) but the master knows his
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| | | | | Blog: Deep Thoughts from Vegas: Day Zeroby Kylee Wall 2 months agoToday's deep thought is brought to you by free wifi a day late. It's hard to post a daily blog from a wifi-only iPad. ANYWAY. Today's actual deep thought is about what lies behind the curtain. The man | Re: Deep Thoughts from Vegas: Day Zero
by Mike Cohen 2 months ago
While I have not been to NAB in a good many years, I attend a half dozen shows per year as either an exhibitor or a vendor. Whether it is a broadcasting show, a medical show, or a plumbing show, the e
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| | | | | Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experienceby Scott Roberts 2 months agoI worked long and hard this week, including a few night shifts, and by today I was exhausted. I made some big bucks, and didn't have anything booked today, so I thought I'd treat myself by spending $1 | Re: Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience
by Mike Cohen 2 months ago
I do not really remember JP 2 and 3 aside from feeling that JP 2 was stupid and JP 3 was an improvement over 2. Was Hammond in eaiter of the sequels I remember a brief scene with Timmy and Lexie and D
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| | | | | Ikegami HL-55 Power Pin Assignmentby David Siegfried 3 months agoNot sure if this is the right forum for this question, but I have an old Ikegami HL-55 video camera that I want to test. This camera has a 5-pin power supply, does anyone know the pin assignment I nee | Re: Ikegami HL-55 Power Pin Assignment
by Mike Cohen 2 months ago
We once had to improvise a Radio Shack power supply to power an HL-55 but could not tell you the pin assignments. Amazingly, Ikegami still has some documentation online, even though this camera pre-da
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| | | | | Unusual CNN Virtual Setby Mike Cohen 2 months agoMade to look like there is a 3D model suspended in mid-air, tracked to the cameras. Looks like the whole set is virtual, yet the hand movement and eye-lines looks correct. http: www.cnn.com video vide | | | | |
| | | | | Blog: Live Event Coverageby Mike Cohen 3 months agoJust back from working the Diabetic Foot Global Conference at the Dolby Ballroom Loews Hollywood Hotel. Planning for the meeting goes back to the previous year's meeting - same location, new AV vendor | Re: Blog: Live Event Coverage
by Mike Cohen 2 months ago
Good insight Mark. Yeah whether you are part of the event company or not, you are essentially hired help. Grab a cup of coffee or a danish when they are available. On at least one occasion per event I
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| | | | | Blog: OMG - 200 blog postsby Mike Cohen 3 months agoI suppose if I were reviewing cameras or software or tutorials or writing books and posting excerpts my numbers could be even higher. But I generally don't do those things - I talk about my job, trave | | | | |
| | | | | A Blog Becomes an Articleby Mike Cohen 5 months agoWhat a nice surprise to find a blog post turned into an official article. Happened with my Hobbit review and a while back with Shooting Interviews. How does it get decided to do this, and to whom do I | | | | |
| | | | | Article: What Star Wars Means To Meby Mike Cohen 3 months ago Film History & Appreciation What Star Wars Means To Me Part of the criteria your future spouse must meet is a deep knowledge of the Star Wars Universe and you can quote most of the lines from at +2  | Re: What Star Wars Means To Me
by Paul Trunkfield 3 months ago
I will never forget when my dad brought home a Ferguson VHS Recorder. We were one of the first people in my neighbourhood to get one and when Star Wars Episode IV came on TV at Christmas it was record
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| | | |  | Premiere Pro - I could be convinced!by Steve Connor 4 months agoDespite being a "Cheerleader" for FCPX I'm not stupid enough to ignore other options. I've been experimenting with PPro over the last few months and I'm very impressed. Merlot fuelled rants aside, how+1 | Re: Premiere Pro - I could be convinced!
by Mike Cohen 4 months ago
Mike Cohen "Double click the clip on the sequence to open in course monitor. But then if you change an in or out point, it changes the clip on the sequence. You can right click the clip and select "r
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| | | |  | The right tools and the right skillsby Nick Griffin 4 months agoI was very flattered recently when my friend Ty Ford (a dominant force in the COW's Audio Pros pasture) asked for me to help him with some studio-based beauty shots for a video he was producing on a n | Re: The right tools and the right skills
by Mike Cohen 4 months ago
I can relate. Back in the mid to late 90's we shot a number of complete videos with an 8' jimmy jib DVCPRO25 setup. Great for shots where people are moving, and in an operating room with 16' ceilings,
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| | | | | iBooks Authorby Mike Cohen 1 year agoWe are wrapping up production on our first multimedia iBook using iBooks Author, a multimedia atlas of hernia surgery featuring text, photos, illustrations and surgical videos. To keep the file size o | Re: iBooks Author
by Mike Cohen 5 months ago
thanks for checking out the sample most of the videos in these products are submitted by the surgeon already edited - as for cropping within videos, they are sometimes a compilation of clips from diff
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