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Welcome to the Beak ƒ(x)Home page.
I'm Beak, the Inferno Artist, and this is my web page. There are two main activities here: One is to use the Tools section, for your EDL making, color mixing, and downloading pleasure. The other is to check out the show reel and bio stuff. OK, more than two things, you can also check into my links and find some cool places to hang, and then there's the stalwart "Contact" page, wherein you can get in touch with me if you've forgotten my contact info along the way. You can also use Contact to send me feedback or questions about the web gadgets herein. The links on the left will provide you with a brief discussion about where you are going. Ciao,
---------Beak
media.content
Show Reel 2003/04 The quicktime here should be used for online viewing only, it does not really do it justice to be played back on small screens and bad sound systems. Plus it's been brutally compressed, too. Send me some mail and I'll get you a proper reel, either VHS, DVD, or DigiBeta on special request. The file is a MPEG4 360x280, about 3 min long. Two ways to go here, if you have the quicktime plug-in for your browser, it will start playing in a new page. If not or it gives you a hard time, then download it as a zip file and play it locally, the download link is right under the player window.
CV Nov 2005 (PDF) Well I've modernized a bit here. The resume (C.V.) is now in pdf format. Not much else to say, I'm just selectively adding credits every few months or so.
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media.tools
qEDL, The "quick EDL" generator The now starting to get famous qEDL. Now with option for 2-channel audio. A web gadget, or online tool, that creates a CMX 3600 cuts only EDL online, and saves to your hard disk when you're done. Supports 30, 25, and 24 frame timecode. More info on the start page. Use the start page(the above link) for bookmarking, information an help.
Color Mixer This is the real time RGB color mixer, with current colors displayed and updated as colors change. You can mix colors for the background and for a text block as well. There is even a bonus RGB to YUV conversion, again in real time as you mix.
RGB to Yxy conversion tool Now here's a gadget that is going to be cool. I say going as it's still something of a work in progress. It uses the same UI as the color mixers, but converts your RGB inpuits into CIE Yxy and XYZ colorspace. More than that, it allows you in real time to see what changes to RGB inputs will look like on a 1931 CIE chromaticity plot. You mix in RGB and get to see what effect that will have on Yxy and XYZ coordinates. This is why I sometimes call it a "relationship viewer" instead of a conversion tool. The conversions are real, though, and are quite handy if you have a colorimeter that only gives you readings in Yxy. The current limitations are that the only whitepoint allowed is 6500K.
'Browser Safe' Mixer This is a somewhat old color mixer, the "Browser Safe" version, from a time when browsers used a browser safe subset of colors. It doesn't get much use anymore ;-).
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media.connect.web
Hey Everyone. Here are a few links to help you navigate your way to similar pages/sites and a few un-related but somehow cool places to visit. New links will go on top, so there is no real relevance to the order in which they appear. If you want to link here, or have a suggestion for a good link, let me know (use the contact link menu on the left). By and large, what goes here are links that I seem to use a lot, interesting bits of R&D going on in the vfx world, resources that are handy, movies that are cool, stuff I've worked on, stuff you've worked on, stuff we want to work on, stuff. Lastly, and perhaps more importantly, the places I personally visit to get a laugh, or find out what's going on in the world, or just to kill time (we're still waiting on some of those...).
New links
I've added a few more. Coming soon is an interesting color-changing page.These guys have a really cool suite of EDL manipulation tools, that can convert, re-format, sort, and do just about any EDL related task you might think of. You should especially know about the standards page. It's everything you always wanted to know about EDLs but didn't know where to ask. Very cool.
fxguide is the original, the classic, full of up-to-the-minute news, views, links, tips and muses
on Visual Effects and the VFX industry. One of the first sites dedicated solely to vfx artists. Also operated
by friends of mine.
vfxpro is another old and good vfx reference site. It's more focused on the industry itself, and
therefore has a broader scope than just Artists, with job boards and advertising links and such. No longer a
stand-alone site, it is part of the Creative Planet group of sites.
This is a great site for color converdsion information and tools. They have a great online colorspace conversion tool. I think they have one you can buy and download, too. They do share thier math, though and a lot has to be said for anybody who shares anything these days. Thumbs up von Beak.
efg's computer lab, which was last updated in 2003, still has a ton of links and gadgets that relate to image processing and manipulation. I personally fvor the "Chromaticity" app, though at this writing, the whitepoint seems to bee off a bit. For the record, I'm linking here without permission. Not that they said no, I just haven't asked them yet, exactly what their story is. Still, too many goodies to pass up for the average ColorGeek.
-----------------------Well, that's it for the moment, Let's hope the linking momentum keeps up and I can add a decent link library before too long. Be sure to suggest your own link if you think it would be a good fit. Use the stalwart contact page, availible off the home page. Ciao!
media.email.beak
Contact This is a mail form, and a very secure one at that, so no fear about your email address getting lost in spam hell. Here's a fast way to glean info about scheduling, current and future gigs, say hello, or send feedback about the site.
---------Beak