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.

January 24, 2010

Taking the Snow Leopard Leap

This is the second time I've upgraded to Snow Leopard - the first was on the day of release. I didn't really upgrade at this point, I installed the software and then looked to see what worked and what didn't.

Rick Young

January 11, 2010

The whole DSLR thing

If there is one technology which has stood out in 2009 it is the emergence of the DSLR as a viable filmmaking tool. Capable of capturing beautiful images with wonderful shallow depth of field; or extreme wide angle, with amazing low-light capability, the DSLRs technology has revolutionised what is possible to filmmakers who don't have large budgets to work with or film cameras or ultra high-end video technology.

Rick Young

January 03, 2010

Now for the Magic - a quick reload of the entire Final Cut Studio suite of applications

Sometimes things go wrong and the only way to deal with the problem is to reinstall the software you are using. For some this is a drastic step - requiring the calling in of experts and high paid consultants, for others it is no more than a necessary procedure, which will take a bit of time, but is not too much to worry about.

Rick Young