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Mark Suszko
COW member since December 22nd 2002 from Central Illinois

20-plus years writing, directing, shooting, editing corporate video, government video, commercials, PSA's, DVD's music videos, forensics and the occasional wedding.

I shoot news, documentaries, and many, many training pieces. I have some minor regional awards. I also rent out the best teleprompter deal in central Illinois within about 100 miles of Springfield.

I work with Grass linear editing, Final Cut Pro, and Discreet Logic PC NLE editing and compositing with Combustion and Boris. I run beta and DVC-Pro cameras. I am learning Lightwave 3d animation and Discreet Combustion compositing.

I specialize in champagne looks on a beer budget, also writing great copy with an emphasis on smart humor.

My dream is to someday be known as the greatest second-unit director in the history of Hollywood;-)

3862 Posts

System Details: FCP 6.0.4

Mac Pro with two 3x3GHZ Quad-core Intel processors,
32 gb of 800 mhz DDR 2 FB-DRAM

Graphics: Nvidia Quadro FX 5600 with 1536 mb VRAM
2 cinema display HD monitors 1920 x 1200 displays

SATA RAID: Hitachi drivesm HFS+ Sonnet tempo SATA EXP IDE COntroller

Aja IO model 0x1, 400 mb/sec max.
Software vers. OX2, OX22, OX 11, OX24

Home Theater: I see some come every major holiday when the relatives gather

Home Studio Musical Gear: Yamaha DX7 IIFD, with the add-on Grey Matter sequencer/controller baby! The 80's live on!

Hobbies and Interests: RC model gliders and electrics. RC sailing in 1-meter class. Sailing my full-size Butterfly Scow. Hard-core Science fiction (Niven, Asimov, Clarke type stuff). Tiki culture, authentic Polyneisan as well as haole/fake hawaiiana. 80's Music. Lounge and Exotica type music a la Arthur Lyman, Martin Denny, Esquivel, etc. Animation in 2 and 3-d. Flight simming with x-plane. Aerospace in general, spacecraft, homebuilts, and sailplanes in particular. Sailing and building full scale sailboats.

Favorite Bands / Musicians: Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney/Beatles, Brian Wilson, Brudda Iz, Bob Marley, and about 200 more... I like singer-songwriters and tight harmonies plus killer lyrics.

Favorite Movies: Too many to list, but Sci-Fi genre is always a major choice. Any Orson Welles, any Hitchcock, Gilliam, Gondry, Frankenheimer, Scorsese, Spielberg, the typical heavyweights, and I have a warm spot for the creative cheapskate, Roger Corman.

Favorite TV Shows: The very brilliantly written and performed "The Office", "My Name is Earl", "30 Rock", "King of the Hill", "Battlestar Galactica", and "The Venture Bros." are about all I make time for, plus anything good on PBS or Discovery or History channels.

Comments and Things Worth Noting:
"You know you're either pretty old or very eclectic, when more than half the artists on your iPod are dead people."-Mark Suszko

My Recent Posts:

Re: Another Copyright/Permission question by Mark Suszko on Nov 5, 2009 at 10:23:03 pm
Re: creativity by Mark Suszko on Nov 5, 2009 at 9:29:20 pm
Re: See yourself in this clip? by Mark Suszko on Nov 5, 2009 at 5:18:25 pm
See yourself in this clip? by Mark Suszko on Nov 5, 2009 at 5:06:30 pm
Re: how do i get this color effect? by Mark Suszko on Nov 5, 2009 at 4:50:20 pm
Re: Studying for the business - looking for helpful advice by Mark Suszko on Nov 5, 2009 at 4:45:37 pm
Re: creativity by Mark Suszko on Nov 5, 2009 at 4:27:50 pm
Re: creativity by Mark Suszko on Nov 5, 2009 at 4:17:04 pm
Re: Creating a paintdrip by Mark Suszko on Nov 4, 2009 at 10:21:02 pm
Re: Taking points on a film's earnings...advice needed by Mark Suszko on Nov 4, 2009 at 10:10:03 pm
Re: How to get the moving vector effect by Mark Suszko on Nov 4, 2009 at 5:45:17 pm
Should have been great, bitter failure by Mark Suszko on Nov 4, 2009 at 5:29:52 pm
Agricultural oral history program I worked on by Mark Suszko on Nov 4, 2009 at 3:34:10 pm
Re: Lighting a white background by Mark Suszko on Nov 3, 2009 at 10:47:00 pm
Re: Photo collage by Mark Suszko on Nov 3, 2009 at 10:40:39 pm
Re: Underwater ripp[ling light effect by Mark Suszko on Nov 3, 2009 at 8:44:06 pm
Re: Product Shots by Mark Suszko on Nov 3, 2009 at 4:56:56 pm
Re: Never Gets Old: Value for the Price by Mark Suszko on Nov 3, 2009 at 3:37:23 pm
Re: Pushing the limits of cheap software by Mark Suszko on Nov 3, 2009 at 3:31:06 pm
Re: Editing Keyboards by Mark Suszko on Nov 3, 2009 at 3:15:08 pm

My Tagged Posts

Re: Studying for the business - looking for helpful advice
by Mark Suszko on Nov 5, 2009 at 10:27:27 am
in the Business & Marketing Forum
Internships are perfect for this, because you're getting academic credit and seeing how real-world practical experience fits into your "book larnin'". Many (but not all) internships can lead to full time work after graduation, so when you...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Richard Cooper

Re: Lighting a white background
by Mark Suszko on Nov 5, 2009 at 6:21:09 am
in the Lighting Design Pros Forum
You light the talent separate from the backdrop for most control. To me the issue is that you have to leave some headroom in your levels to go up from; if everything is at 100 IRE on the scopes you're...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Matthew Delaney

Re: How to get the moving vector effect
by Mark Suszko on Nov 4, 2009 at 6:47:23 pm
in the Motion Graphics Forum
This looks like simply adjusting or re-drawing parts of the illustration so you have two slightly different versions, and rapidly cycling between them. There is an expression/effect in AE that can be used for getting the same or similar effect,...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Nic Hekel

Re: Shooting a conference in San Francisco, tips?
by Mark Suszko on Oct 23, 2009 at 2:08:26 pm
in the Indie Film & Documentary Forum
Well, go ahead and shoot some coverage of registration, that really is not much use except in a news-style report, though. Seems to me you want to shoot two things: a little news documentary piece, and a promo/commercial. The...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Marcus Perfjell

Re: Is this Avid worth selling?
by Mark Suszko on Oct 7, 2009 at 1:20:07 pm
in the Business & Marketing Forum
I came across a used gear broker's site in LA, and he had copious notes and opinions on Avids. "Uncle Geno" I think he was called. Seems like a nice guy. His bottom line was that selling used Avids is a...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Casey Davis

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