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 | | | | |
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by Mike Cohen 12 hours 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 7 days 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 3 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 1 month agohttp: www.youtube.com watch feature=player_embedded&v=EJ-bYOyQ46Y | Re: Blomkamp's Elysium
by Mike Cohen 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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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| | | | | Red box now has lunch meatby Stephen Smith 2 months agoRed box just sent out an e-mail today (April Fools Day) saying that they are now offering lunch meat. They even made everything fit in the DVD cases. I love it! In case you don't get their e-mail news | Re: d box now has lunch meat
by Mike Cohen 2 months ago
My Netflix instant queue is full of docs and classics and they do have a lot of indies available. Netflix just announced they will release all 15 new episodes of Arrested Development all at once. That
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| | | | | The Americansby Mike Cohen 3 months agoI have watched the first 3 episodes of the new series on FX. It is like "Homeland" in the 80's. Here is the plot in one sentence. A Russian couple, posing is Americans, conduct espionage in greater Wa | Re: The Americans
by Mike Cohen 2 months ago
I'm trudging through this series. Every episode follows the same formula: Main characters have a mission that not even Ethan Hunt could pull off. In the process they both sleep with someone else eithe
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| | | | | G.I. Joe: Retaliationby Scott Roberts 2 months agohttp: www.youtube.com watch v=V2YMu52MfqA Premise: The president has been kidnapped and replaced with a doppelganger. Only the JOEs have the gumption to stop him! But will Cobra Commander break out of | Re: G.I. Joe: Retaliation
by Mike Cohen 2 months ago
If Rihanna isn't in it, I'm not seeing it. She adds such levity to action movies, she should be in all of them. I heard Spielberg is going to digitally add her to the next restoration of Saving Privat
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| | | | | Ikegami HL-55 Power Pin Assignmentby David Siegfried 2 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 2 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 2 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 4 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 2 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 2 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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| | | | | Blog: What Star Wars Means to Meby Mike Cohen 2 months ago With all this talk about another Star Wars Trilogy, spin off movies, live action tv and George Lucas retiring a terribly wealthy man, I've kept myself busy with rumors, speculation and criticisms as | | | | |
| | | | | Blog: OMG - My Blog!by Mike Cohen 2 months agoHey there fellow COWs. Mike Cohen speaking. I have not posted to the ol' blog for a while thanks to numerous varied activities. iBooks Authoring Cine-Med has three main functions: media production, pu | | | | |
| | | |  | Premiere Pro - I could be convinced!by Steve Connor 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 11 months 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 4 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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| | | | | Article: Suck It Up, Buttercupby Kylee Wall 4 months ago Business & Marketing Suck It Up, Buttercup The Best Excuses from New or Underemployed Filmmakers and Freelancers: "You've really really got to stop being lazy and making excuses for not getting +2 | | | | |
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