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Tim Wilson
COW member since April 12th 2001 from Boston, MA

Here's a story about how I came to work at The Cow.

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• Is This Thing On? Oh, it's on!

System Details: BolDATA Dual Core AMD Opteron
2.61 GHz, 3.25 GB RAM
Windows XP

MacBook Pro, 15"
2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM
Running Windows Vista

Hobbies and Interests: I love television. As much time as I spend watching it, reading about it, talking about it, tweaking my system, it's definitely a hobby. At least.

It's not as cool to like TV as it is to like movies, but most of the time, I like TV better.

It's also not cool to like network TV, but I do. I'll go a little further and say that we're in the midst of television's true golden age.

Some current favorites: House, Life, Bones, Reaper, Dirty Sexy Money, Journeyman, Pushing Daisies, Lost.....

Love HD.

Love watching the Red Sox. Out of a 162 game season, Nora and I watch virtually all of 140 of 'em, chunks of another dozen. Highlights of the rest, of course, plus pre-game and (often) post-game coverage too.

All in HD, of course.

Favorite Books / Authors: Mark Twain

Favorite Bands / Musicians: The Beatles, Sufjan Stevens, Pinback, Joni Mitchell, Head Like A Kite, Brittle Stars, Miracle Fortress, Dream Syndicate, Yo La Tengo, The Incredible Moses Leroy, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, The Trolleyvox, Bob Dylan (the later the better), Simple Kid, Manual, The Notwist, Lali Puna, Tied & Tickled Trio, Alias, Songs of Green Pheasant, !!!, Couch, Malory, John Doe, The Sheila Divine, Boy in Static, Mission of Burma

Favorite Movies: Stranger Than Fiction (the current fave), Hard Day's Night, You Me and Everyone We Know, Grapes of Wrath, Fog of War, The Lord of the Rings (extended editions...actually, the extras are even better than the movies), Gross Pointe Blank, The Fifth Element, Night at the Opera, Jaws, What's Up Doc?

Favorite TV Shows: House, Life, Bones, Reaper, Dirty Sexy Money, Lost, The Closer, Battlestar Gallactica, Chuck, Pushing Daisies

Comments and Things Worth Noting:
Here's a quick tour through my YouTube videos:

1) Joseph Kosinski directed this amazing spot for the Xbox 360 game, World of Warcraft. The music is Gary Jules's cover of Mad World (originally Tears for Fears) that was used in the movie Donnie Darko. I get chills every time I watch this.

2) Don't like McDonald's, don't eat chicken, but this spot is a work of mad genius.

3) EDS, Herding Cats. One of my favorite commercials of all time.

4) Six of my favorite minutes from Fog of War, the Oscar-winning doc by Erroll Morris. Robert MacNamara, speaking straight into the cameara. Amazing.

5 - 8) Local promos from Fox Sports in LA. This, kids, is what rotoscoping looks like.

9) A Tribe Called Quest, "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo." Killer riff sampled from The Chambers Brothers' "Funky." Truly lightweight, but fun.

10) Ten minutes from "You, Me and Everyone We Know," a fantastic movie written, directed by and starring Miranda July. It'll take me longer to describe it than it will for you to watch the clip.

11) Chris Bliss juggling to the finale of Abbey Road. Turn it up loud.

My Recent Posts:

Welcome Don Greening! by Tim Wilson on Jul 16, 2008 at 10:38:05 am
Welcome Craig Seeman! by Tim Wilson on Jul 15, 2008 at 11:14:55 pm
Welcome Simon Bonner! by Tim Wilson on Jul 12, 2008 at 11:34:50 am
Welcome Simon Bonner! by Tim Wilson on Jul 12, 2008 at 11:30:53 am
Welcome Simon Bonner! by Tim Wilson on Jul 12, 2008 at 11:26:39 am
Welcome Simon Bonner! by Tim Wilson on Jul 12, 2008 at 11:24:53 am
Re: No video out from Premiere Pro 2 on dual boot iMac by Tim Wilson on Jul 11, 2008 at 9:04:17 pm
Re: No video out from Premiere Pro 2 on dual boot iMac by Tim Wilson on Jul 11, 2008 at 7:51:52 pm
Re: No video out from Premiere Pro 2 on dual boot iMac by Tim Wilson on Jul 11, 2008 at 3:49:50 am
Re: can't log in or post by Tim Wilson on Jul 11, 2008 at 3:35:44 am
Re: An Intro to Video Compression by Tim Wilson on Jul 7, 2008 at 8:09:56 pm
Re: checking on a website..is it for real? by Tim Wilson on Jul 4, 2008 at 10:27:12 am
Re: Can't FULLY View "Motion Design" by Eran Stern by Tim Wilson on Jun 26, 2008 at 8:50:38 pm
Re: I've Some Big Question by Tim Wilson on Jun 26, 2008 at 8:45:29 pm
Re: RED Problems (CAN'T SHOOT WEST!!!!) by Tim Wilson on Jun 26, 2008 at 7:57:54 pm
Re: Video compression by Tim Wilson on Jun 26, 2008 at 1:03:40 pm
Re: Any experience w/PD-1 Dolly? by Tim Wilson on Jun 25, 2008 at 7:48:41 pm
Re: I wish Discreet / Autodesk would sell to Apple by Tim Wilson on Jun 25, 2008 at 3:58:32 pm
Re: I wish Discreet / Autodesk would sell to Apple by Tim Wilson on Jun 25, 2008 at 3:51:16 pm
Re: AE: The Next Level question by Tim Wilson on Jun 25, 2008 at 2:26:48 pm

My Tagged Posts

Re: COW Articles: NAB Apple Bows Out of NAB 2008
by Tim Wilson on Feb 27, 2008 at 12:31:24 pm
in the Business & Marketing Forum
I'll add that millions of buying decisions by pros in our industry have been made without going to tradeshows. They're made in the much closer contact provided by road shows, and in the MUCH closer contact provided by VARs, many...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Ron Lindeboom

New Tutorial: P2 Import for FCP 6, by Shane Ross
by Tim Wilson on Feb 27, 2008 at 12:31:24 pm
in the Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum
P2 workflows are among the very hottest topics at the Cow, and with extensive experience with P2 in broadcast editing, leader Shane Ross is one of the industry experts in the new features to support P2 in Final Cut Pro...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by doublesharpe

Re: Avid says No to NAB 2008
by Tim Wilson on Feb 27, 2008 at 12:31:24 pm
in the Business & Marketing Forum
[Proper Modulation] "Avid is taking YET ANOTHER step to remove themselves from the future and dig themselves deeper into the ESTABLISHED market that thinks Avid can do know wrong and would never fathom FCP as an alternate." That's...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Ron Lindeboom

Stop the madness!
by Tim Wilson on Feb 27, 2008 at 12:31:24 pm
in the Discrete Edit*ors Forum
Angus said: "Time has proved that writing off Avid is a mugs game. Much as they might infuriate with some of their strategies, they have a capacity for pulling rabbits from hats that shouldn't be underestimated." As much...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Mark Palmos

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