Josh Biggs | iSophia

Filming @ Christchurch Studios

Admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:41:14 +0000

Emil

Admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:28:01 +0000

http://www.isophia.co.uk/media/emil.mov

[See post to watch QuickTime movie]

Protected: Preludes

Admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:14:55 +0000

Protected: Alstompower

Admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:51:42 +0000

Moving Hosts

Admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:29:01 +0000

iSophia has just moved hosts across the water to Media temple and a Grid Server. Things should all be up and running again minus a few glitches, mostly caused by an upgrade to wordpress which should be ironed out shortly!

ProRes Gamma shift fix.

Admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:51:49 +0000

There is nothing so frustrating as unexpected Gamma shifts. Round tripping between AE and FCP when using ProRes 4444 you may notice a gamma shift when bringing exports from After Effects into Final Cut Pro.

To avoid this gamma shift, you’ll need to edit your After Effects CS4 QuickTime gamma rules XML file. This will add the appropriate gamma tag to your QuickTime files on output.

The XML file is found here:

[hard drive]/users/[user name]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/MediacoreQTGammaRulesCS4.xml

Add the following line to your MediaCoreQTGammaRulesCS4.xml file:

‘ap4h’ is the 4cc code for ProRes4444. You’ll notice that the XML file already includes entries for ‘apcn’ and ‘apch’. These are the 4cc codes for the older flavors of the ProRes codec.

Once you’ve made this change, you should be able to round-trip ProRes4444 media between Final Cut Pro and After Effects without experiencing a gamma shift.

More info here

Autumn Dale.

Admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:50:51 +0000

A few photos from up north taken over a period of two weeks in and around Teesdale and Weardale. The weather was patchy at best, but there were a few stunning mornings with a clear winters sun breaking through the clouds. More to follow shortly when i have the time to sort through them.

Images from the summer & a few updates

Admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:35:14 +0000

This has been the first year in many that i have only taken a handful of images during the months of July/August, but i’ve eventually sorted through them with a small collection here. Also some subtle changes to the site are coming in; an increased width adjustment, less padding with the sidebar and a little more ‘horizontal space’ throughout. Much better integration of the slidshowpro flash gallery on the way soon too.

Photos from the Carnyville

Admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:23:16 +0000

Suze Adams: Communion

Admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:13:31 +0000

Above are a selection of photographs from projects with photographer and Artist Suze Adams, to photograph her performance work on Mull in 2008, and again in 2009. The work was shown as part of the ‘fieldwork’ exhibition at An Tobar Arts Centre, Tobermory.