In 2003 , Lance Laspina and Jeremy DiFiore direct and produce a documentary about illustrious phantasy creative person Frank Frazetta , “ Frazetta : Painting With Fire . ” The documentary film ’s product was done totally on Macs . Now the documentary is available on DVD , and Macs were once again implemental in produce the two - disc set , according to the music director .

“ Frazetta : Painting With Fire ” document the aliveness and times of Frank Frazetta , an creative person from Brooklyn , New York whose work first seem as exemplification for stories and comics in the forties and 1950s . An devouring baseball musician who once caught the attention of a pro baseball scout , Frazetta eventually turn his acquirement to painting screening for Tarzan and Conan the Barbarian books . His body of work would also appear on the covers of magazine like Creepy , Eerie and Vampirella . Frazetta ’s artistic production continues to have a vast influence on generations of artists , filmmakers and skill fabrication and phantasy fans .

The two - disc set includes commentaries by the managing director and producer , a behind the scenes feature , outtakes , deleted scene , a “ Visual Diary ” of Fire & Ice , an animise film featuring Frazetta ’s oeuvre , photo gallery , “ Rare Frazetta Art Gallery ” and much more . It was turn in November , 2004 and is available for leverage atCinemachine.net , as well as from Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble , Tower Records , Borders and many other online and retail locations .

All redundant feature film were Mac - made

Laspina told MacCentral that all of the extra features created for the DVD were edit using Apple ’s Final Cut Pro . Adobe After Effects was used for much of the compositing and coloring rectification , and Adobe Photoshop was used to prepare the image gallery . Photoshop and AE were also used to make the DVD ’s still and movement carte du jour .

Laspina also excuse how Macs were used to record the audio commentary rail . A complication arose when producer Jeremy DiFiore move crown of thorns - country before the tracks were record . Laspina and DiFiore were seem for a reliable grim - cost solvent . produce an MPEG-4 adaptation of the movie , burning it to DVD and sending it to DiFiore was the first step .

“ We were amazed ourselves how well this technique work and find it was another shining instance of sovereign filmmaking inventiveness , ” said Laspina .

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Laspina tender a rundown of the hardware and software program used to create the completely independently finance documentary , which take on nearly four years to complete by the time it was done ( it was finished in April , 2003 ) .

The infotainment was shot using Digital Video ( DV ) , with Canon XL1 , Sony VFX 1000 and Canon ZR photographic camera . A Hollywood Lite stabilizer was also used for some dig , along with a homemade jibarm .

Tascam Digital Audio Tape ( DAT ) was used for some audio , as was direct - to - DV tape recording recording . A Sony DSR-20 DVCAM deck was used to capture footage .

“ Frazetta : play With Fire ” was edit on a Power Mac G4/500MHz dual C.P.U. organisation using Final Cut Pro 1 , 2 and 3 . Two Viewsonic displays and a Sony Trinitron NTSC monitor were used , along with a MacAlly keyboard , Contour Shuttle Pro and Wacom Intuos graphics tablet . Three FireWire hard drives were used for storage , in summation to four inner drive — about 500 GB of storehouse was used in amount by the end of the production , according to Laspina .

A Umax Astra e5460 digital scanner was connect to an upgraded Power Computing PowerTower 180 , to scan paradigm into Photoshop . Those image were then transferred to the G4 . A PowerBook G3/300MHz was also used for day - to - day business and e - chain mail .

The docudrama was composited using Adobe After Effects Production Bundle . Retrospect Express was used to back up project files to DVD - RAM disc . And audio recording was mixed on a Power Mac using Bias Deck and Peak DV . Other package used over the row of the task admit Maya , Elastic world , Automatic Duck ’s Composition Export / Import , Commotion , DigiDesign ProTools , Trapcode ’s Shine , Primatte , and Composite Wizard .

“ Two of the film ’s songs were recorded using a 60 - spell orchestra from Prague , ” said Laspina . “ We commune with them from a studio in Santa Monica , Calif. via a real time television and audio interface . The whole process was engineered using a background Power Mac . ”