Jeff Finley

I was lucky enough to be part of the opening night festivities for the new Capitol Theatre in Cleveland. The newly renovated theater was a hotspot in Cleveland in the 20′s but it’s been empty for nearly 3 decades and it has finally been brought back to life.

Last week, I watched the new documentary Tyson by James Toback. It felt more like a 60 minutes interview, than a documentary. But that’s ok because the subject is extremely interesting. Mike does a great job of opening up and coming across as a a nieve little kid in a grown up body. I admit, [...]

I’m a big fan of Harmony Korine as a filmmaker. I really like his style and how he handles his subject matter and characters in his films. And die hard fans of his work are stereotypically elite film snobs. Not all, but from what I’ve seen, fans of Harmony’s movies usually have good taste in [...]

Yes! I was successful in compressing a full 25 minute video last night. I’ve contacted YouTube about being able to upload longer than 10 minutes and we’ll see if they oblige. Cross your fingers! But you should just be days away from taking a peek into the life of Brent Simon.

I can’t seem to get this video compressed the way I want it. I was able to render out the uncompressed version last night and I took it into work yesterday and successfully compressed it down to under 100 MB. But halfway through, some strange thing happens where the video size shrinks and you see [...]

I have a rough cut done of the Brentumentary. It clocks in around 30 min in length. And I’m not sure if I should cut it down or not. I’ve been trying to compress the damn video for two days but my computer freezes during the compression. I’m using Sorenson Squeeze. If it wasn’t for [...]