TriCaster Applications: SpeedEDIT & LiveText By Vanessa Ventura Since I've been here in the AMC Tribeca green screen studio I've really gotten familiar with the new TriCaster 450 Extreme.  Let me take a few minutes to go over with you some of the really cool Tricaster Applications such as SpeedEDIT and LiveText. There are several Tricaster Applications available for use with the TriCaster [...]

The set is all ready to record promos for Transitcheck.com Today, for the first time, I worked the  teleprompter in Spanish for American Movie Company. I am prompting for TransitCheck.com, and our clients want to make two videos: one in Spanish and one in English. Spanish is up first and I have to follow along the screen in Spanish, a language that I had been putting off learning for as long [...]

 AMC joins the team for Resident Evil 5! Science-fiction horror action comes home to AMC this holiday season with Resident Evil 5!!! I know, exciting right? I'm about as jaded as a production staff member comes these days and even MY eyes began to sparkle when Bill informed us about our involvement with the next edition of the Resident Evil film series. Filming for Resident Evil 5: Retribution [...]

There were signs that American Movie Company’s Friday Night Fights (FNF) shoot was going to be a great success. First, getting on to the A train, I saw a woman holding A Mountain of Crumbs, the same book that happened to be inside my bag. I would have stumbled across the moving train to chat about it had I not been depleted of energy from the nervousness I was feeling about the shoot. I hadn’t [...]

Tricaster, If You Don’t Ask, The Answer Will Always Be "No"   Are you familiar with the quote, “If you don’t ask, the answer will always be no."? I  cannot remember the author of this simple yet profound piece of insight, but I believe it is spot on. If you cannot ask, you don't even have one shot at getting what you want. Every person has a dream, but most people leave their dreams [...]