Hello all, as the subject says I hail from Winthrop, Mass. Always looking to meet fellow DV professionals (or people who love the art) from the area or anywhere for that matter. I run FCP 3 on a daul 1.25 G4 & shoot with an XL1.
I manage two editing suiets on the North Shore & run a small home biz with a very modest client base. Well, those are my stats. Looking forward to hearing from anyone and talking DV.

Welcome aboard Chuck! Good to have you with us. I think you are
the first from your region here (at least that I know) or I'm just
a weird foreigner that doesn't understand where you are from (heh).

You seem to have an interesting little business. Good luck with it!

hi chuck, i'm in boston, MA. dunno when i signed on but i think I am the first one from mass region =). anyway sheck out our local movie-making community:

http://www.newenglandfilms.com

it's pretty radical. anyway some of us are going to meet for the project greenlight's battle of shaker heights premiere next friday 8/29/03:
http://projectgreenlight.liveplanet.com/bbs/viewThread.jsp?forum=16&thread=144251&start=0&range=40

if you're interested. i'm who they call "JediFonger" online.

Sorry but I have a shoot that day. Tell me a bit about yourself and your relationship with video.

Hi Chuck,

There's a few major "Masshole" contributors in here (I'm formerly one myself, before you take offense--grew up in Brookline, my folks live in Newburyport now)...Don Berube, Casey Visco from Glidecam to name a couple. If you ever need some upconversions or additional support gear or that sort of thing, a good pal of mine runs a production company in Watertown called Pulse Media, he's a solid resource and a great guy, very helpful.

It's always a pleasure to hear from another Masshole Charles. What prompted the move to LA?

Well Chuck, I had worked my way up in the Boston production community to the point where I didn't have too much further to go. Pretty much everyone knew me as "the Steadicam guy" in New England, plus I was working as a DP, but I really wanted to work on features and didn't have the credits to get on the ones that came to town.

I was coming out to LA a couple of times a year to teach Steadicam and ended up landing my first studio feature over a weekend that I was sleeping on a friend's sofa, as luck would have it. Six months later I moved out full time, been out here for six years now. I miss the fall foliage and the fresh Sam Adams and Harpoon IPA, but career-wise I definitely made the right choice! And last year I met my near-fiancee who just happens to have grown up in Beverly (moved here nine years ago to be an actress) and her parents moved to Newburyport also...little, tiny world!

2bad. i wish i had a shoot =). anyway. i'm a "wannabe" director. only made 1 short. shot on the same sony hi8 that i have right now. saving up for xl1s (like everyone else). have 2 projects i can jump on immediately but no equipment. i have a dual cpu computer that i can edit stuff with =). that's it for now anyway.

Originally posted by Chuck Mello : Sorry but I have a shoot that day. Tell me a bit about yourself and your relationship with video.

If you ever in the market to rent an XL1 or a Final Cut set up let me know.

cant afford to rent even $100/day is crazy. the usual rates are 300+/day.

no thx. i can own 1 if i rented for 40 days =). duh!

plus i have prem/AE/etc. on a dually. i'm alset on editing front. thx though... unless i can rent xl1s 4 free! =)