Marcelo Lewin
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 18: Avid Media Composer First Impressions
Today was my first real prolonged exposure to Avid beyond looking at it for 5 minutes and thinking, what do I do now, and then quitting.
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Journal
Journal entries posted (mostly) weekdays documenting what I'm doing to transition to filmmaking. Doing this publicly to keep myself honest, motivated and accountable.
Marcelo Lewin
- 2 days ago
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 17: UCLA Extension Fall Quarter Begins
Today I begin my second (fall) quarter of the filmmaking program at UCLA Extension, with a focus on Post Production and Editing.
Marcelo Lewin
- 6 days ago
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 16: Creating a Portfolio for My Projects
To get new clients or a new job in filmmaking, I needed to add a portfolio to my site to show off all the projects I've completed.
Marcelo Lewin
- 6 days ago
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 15: Upscaling a Short Film Using AI
In this journal entry, I cover how I took the final denoised short film from yesterday's journal entry and upscaled it to 4K using AI.
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 20
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 14: Denoising a Short Film Using AI Part 2
In the previous journal entry, I covered Artemis, the AI model in Topaz AI. In this entry, I'll cover the Nyx AI Model for denoising.
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 19
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 13: Denoising a Short Film Using AI Part 1
A filmmaker I know, Chris Browne, who was also on my podcast, asked me if I could help him denoise his short film, Pleroma, using AI.
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 18
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 12: Editing a Fight Scene Final Project
This is the third and final entry on my experience learning how to edit a fight scene in my Intro to Premiere class at UCLA Extension.
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 15
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 11: AI Creative Summit Day 2
Day 2 of the AI Creative Summit. More sessions, more learning on AI and Generative AI; brain is hurting!
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 14
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 10: AI Creative Summit Day 1
Today was day 1 of the 2 day AI Creative Summit conference with many sessions presented by some really talented creative professionals.
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 13
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 9: AI Speech Enhancement in Premiere Pro
Today Adobe released a new Beta version of Premiere Pro with the ability to enhance the speech of a clip locally inside of Premiere Pro.
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 12
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 8: Exploring Generative-AI Camera Movement
Generative AI video is improving rather quickly and in the last 2 days, Runway and Pika released the ability to control the AI camera.
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 11
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 7: Stringouts and Pancake Editing
Pancake editing and stringouts are two great editing tools we can use to speed up the editing process.
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 8
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 6: Using AI for Dubbing, Closed Caption, Subtitles & Transcription
Today was a full day of learning all about dubbing, transcribing, close captioning and subtitling using AI.
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 7
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 5: The Importance of Building Relationships
Today I spent most of the day seeking out and building relationships, which are a very important aspect of transitioning into a new career.
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 6
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 4: Editing a Fight Scene Part 1
My final project for my Intro to Premiere class at UCLA Extension is due next week and it involves cutting a fight (action) scene.
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 5
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 3: Final Paper: Citizen Kane
Today I spent most of the day writing my research paper on Citizen Kane for my Language of Filmmaking class at UCLA Extension.
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 4
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 2: Getting Organized
It's time to get organized. Time to use the project management tools I love and to put in place a system that will help me reach my goals.
Marcelo Lewin
- Sep 1
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 1: Redesigning My Website
Today I finished the redesigning my site. The site was previously mainly focused on promoting other filmmakers. I'm flipping that around.
Marcelo Lewin
- Aug 31
Transitioning to Filmmaking Day 0: It Ends It Begins
There are some changes coming to CreativeSpark.ai, triggered by some changes in my life. I'm transitioning to filmmaking!
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