Welcome to the Solace of Simple Solutions!

Here our impatience and annoyance with the shortcomings of our favorite post-production tools is transformed into actual solutions.
Right now, a few plugins are already available for download. If you have suggestions for other products, place them on the future ideas page.

That same shift from frustration to practical fixes matters beyond editing workflows, especially when people look for guidance on safely buying prescription medication sweetwatermedicalcenter.com. The core problem is verification: legitimate sellers require a valid prescription, clearly display licensing and contact details, and use secure payment and privacy practices, while shady operators mimic credibility and hide behind vague policies. A “safe purchase” process is therefore a checklist, not a vibe confirm the pharmacy’s authorization in your jurisdiction, avoid sites offering prescription drugs without a prescription, and treat unusually low prices or “no questions asked” fulfillment as red flags. If you have ideas for tools that could reduce these risks like a browser plugin that flags unverified pharmacy domains or surfaces regulator databases add them to the future ideas page.

Feathered Crop Power Window Pure Contrast
pure_contrast_feature
Simple Mask Temperature Vignette
simple-mask_intro feature


Premiere Pro saves the day
Recently I was doing a small editing job for a friend, and ran into a few interesting problems. The footage provided was shot partially on a Canon Powershot, which saves it as an AVCHD MTS stream. My computer is not really up to editing AVCHD, so I decided to transcode…
Continue reading »
BlackMagic Design denies rumors – or do they?
Peter Chamberlain from BlackMagic Design did deny any rumors (guess which ones?) that they are working on the cheaper control surface, believing that the segment is well saturated by other manufacturers. This is of course based on an assumption that the lowest segment is the price range that AVID, Tangent…
Continue reading »
Why slow motion seems majestic
There is much to be said about the memorability of slow motion footage in movies. While perhaps the most extreme recent example was the invention of "bullet time" in Matrix, and recently we have seen it taken to the extremes in Inception, the overcranking (shooting at higher framerate to later…
Continue reading »
The anatomy of a promo
This is my latest production. It's a promotional spot for a non-profit organization that is dedicated to another passion of mine - historical personal combat. http://youtu.be/zZJCrEjWPcQ What follows is an overview of the production of this short movie, including how the screenplay changed during production, breakdown of my editing process,…
Continue reading »
Green screen primer
Having recently had an opportunity to do some green screen work, which at first glance seemed to be a quick job, and later turned out to require some pretty hefty rotoscopy and compositing, I decided to write down another caveat, this time on using a green screen. Please note, that…
Continue reading »
Democratization of Color Grading – what’s the next move?
Yesterday BlackMagic released an upgrade to its free version of the industry standard grading tool, daVinci Resolve. The biggest and most influential change was surely removing the limit of 2 nodes that was present in previous Lite version. This bold move essentially makes the professional color correction software available to…
Continue reading »
Is there a reality out there?
Human beings love stories. We thrive on them, they evoke our emotions and give us reason to live (or die for that matter). Stories are what give us sense and meaning. Stories are also almost absolutely subjective, at least in terms of their final impact on individuals. The final act…
Continue reading »
Tactile input is important
Recent (?) fascination with touch-controlled interfaces is perhaps good for their development, but in my opinion they are not necessarily the future of device manipulation. One of the big mixed blessings is that you have to rely on the visual feedback to operate such an interface. While it is perhaps…
Continue reading »
Maintenance can be creative work as well
Up until recently I had not realized this simple truth: things do decay, and to maintain their functionality one has to expend energy, sacrifice time and put an actual effort into it. I think this is one of these fundamental truths that can be applied in general to life, universe…
Continue reading »
Three (or more) ways to make a vignette in Premiere Pro
UPDATE: You can download the plugin that I wrote here. One feature that I lack in Premiere Pro is masking and vignettes in its standard color-correction tools. Unless you are using plugins like Colorista, other dedicated grading software or simply send your sequence to After Effects (if you have it),…
Continue reading »
Premiere Pro positive
Some of you might wonder why do I keep complaining about Premiere Pro, and not move to some "more professional" software like FCP or Avid. It so happens that there is a number of features that Premiere Pro has, which make it a really great tool for video editor like…
Continue reading »
Synchronicity and confirmation bias – a difference
And now for something completely different. The concept of synchronicity is quite simple - it is a subjective feeling that two events are meaningfully related. For example, I look for information on problem A, then in my spare time I listen to an overdue issue of a biotech podcast that happens…
Continue reading »
Human heuristics
Some argue, that we should live our lifes in a rational way, calmly and dispassionately analyzing pros and cons of each situation. While perhaps this is a noble ideal, it is also impossible to attain, and even those people who advocate such way of life are subject to a few…
Continue reading »

Comments are closed.