Rick Young's Blog

Rick Young has worked in television and video production since the late 1980’s and is a committed Mac fanatic, using Apple technology for all his professional post-production work. Rick's introduction to Apple was with a Lisa before the Mac even existed, and since then has worked on Macs exclusively. He considers himself lucky to be able to get paid for what he loves to do - shoot and edit.

November 24, 2008

Revolution going on

There's a revolution in audio acquisition going on.

Rick Young

November 24, 2008

More thoughts about tape

Following on from last week... So if tape is so close to death than why am I buying in 100 tapes or more every three months - the answer is cheap insurance.

Rick Young

November 17, 2008

Tape is past the prime of its life

You know tapes not dead, but it is certainly past the prime of it's life. In fact it has reached the point, for a lot of projects, that tape is completely unsuitable.

Rick Young

November 07, 2008

Dealing with audio

I'm filming in the South of France, brought enough gear to do most things and I'm glad I did.

Rick Young

November 07, 2008

The Movie Camera is a Time Machine

I was watching some footage from 1927. Most of it was overexposed and fluctuated in quality but it was historic so the quality was insignificant compared to the content.

Rick Young

November 04, 2008

Do we need the Speed

USB has become what I use for pretty much all my editing work these days. Once I was FireWire only - now I buy USB at the rate of several each month.

Rick Young