You can be anyone for a day!

If I had to pick a theme for this past N.Y. Comic Con, this would be it: Be anyone for a day. Or anything for that matter, anything goes. In fact I think the Cosplayers outnumbered those who didn't dress up at the Con! Estimated attendance at 100,000+ that's a lot of costumes! But the most stunning event to me happened Sat at the south staircase to the lower level. Here there was a gathering that took over one side of the staircase by the windows. I've been to many cons but never seen this particular group before so I inquired what was going on. It turns out these folk where from a web comic that I never heard of called Homestuck! And boy were they organized, they drew attention of passers by with loud roars from time to time. You will know them by the candy colored horns and grey appearance most of them wore. Led by a guy dressed in black with blue markings, they organized into mythic groups and families from the series to take family pictures! Now this is the kind of devotion I would love fans to have of my work one day, this is for sure! But this goes to the main fun of shows like this, and that is that for a day you can be someone else, not worrying about your own struggles and losing yourself in the moment. That for a day you can be that superhero or Villain or movie star or even a droid. For a day you can be a kid again who dressed up as anyone on Halloween. For a day there can be magic, for a day you can be anyone!

Another X in the wall

I've used Final Cut Pro since 4 so when X came out with its new interface like many others I groaned and was lost just like them. No upgrade for me. It was version 0 and was missing many features from its previous incarnation. Well months later I figured that I test the waters and cut the stuff I shot at New York Comic Con on the trial version instead of iMovie, here we go. After two false starts I got the hang of this beast, I took all my source video from iPhone, NEX5N, and the Canon 60D and went to work. Rendering is done in the background while you're putting the movie together, individual clips can be worked on, video fixes, audio, color correction, stabilization all can be done in the background. Titles as well, using the included fonts or your own. Everything runs pretty fast, of course dependent on your hardware. After a couple of hours I had a finished video with titles and music. Over all not the bad experience I thought it would be. If you're into doing video and are in the Apple environment and are looking to step up from iMovie FCPX might mark the spot.

N. Y. Comic Con 2012

Wow. 4 days, and lots of gigs of photos and video to go through, no doubt becoming the East Coast version of the San Diego Comic Con very quickly! I had an awesome if not exhausting time but as with these shows , I could not see everything. And I only got to see a couple of friends in the business this time out . But for me the show was about coverage. Shooting, shooting, shooting. Rarely taking my hand from the shutter button, what a great event to shoot at! More soon.

Pre Con

This is the first post in my Comic Con coverage. Enjoy.