Scorched Ice Digital after Twenty Years
Scorched Ice Digital after twenty years. A short history, behind the name. My evolution in video production, in Calgary Alberta.
Established 2001
Craig Van Horne
- Nov 12, 2021
- 4 min
Creative Collaboration & the Pandemic
To borrow from Robert Munsch, the past eighteen months has been a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year. I can say without question...
Craig Van Horne
- Aug 18, 2015
- 8 min
Mentoring | A Question of Perspective for Creatives
I know what you’re thinking… “Really… another article about mentoring?” Well yeah, and while I have mentioned mentoring before I haven’t...
Craig Van Horne
- Aug 10, 2015
- 3 min
Make Business Human
I’ve started using a phrase that I think represents what business needs to be doing more today than at almost any other time in history....
Craig Van Horne
- Aug 7, 2015
- 4 min
When looking for a Video Services Provider, what should businesses be asking first?
The question is… What is a good way to determine who we want to work with on our companies video project? Because the majority of the...
Craig Van Horne
- Apr 13, 2015
- 1 min
Parkland Fuel Corporation :: Access
We recently completed a web commercial for our friends at Parkland Fuel Corporation. It is always a treat working with the wonderful...
Craig Van Horne
- Apr 10, 2015
- 1 min
The Western Hockey League :: Raise Your Play
We were approached by our friends at the Western Hockey League to produce a new recruitment video for the league. The WHL is one of the...
Craig Van Horne
- Apr 10, 2015
- 2 min
Eye Contact with your Audience :: It can be Simple & Effective
Looking into a camera naturally is a difficult thing to do. Looking into a lens and articulating a message and maintaining the eye line...
Craig Van Horne
- Mar 15, 2015
- 3 min
Is ‘Good Enough’ Acceptable in Creative Video Work?
Good Enough… isn’t necessarily a cop out… everyone does ‘good enough’ whether to meet deadlines or to meet budgetary limitations. That...
Craig Van Horne
- Jan 13, 2014
- 2 min
Philip Bloom | Digital Bolex Skin Tone Grade and Denoise Test
So I tracked down the download that Mr. Bloom was again so kind to share, especially considering it stars some of his family members. I...
Craig Van Horne
- Nov 22, 2013
- 1 min
Influencer | Mac Van Wielingen
Once again we were very proud to have been a part of the Ivey School of Business’, Global Ivey Day. Every year the Calgary Ivey Alumni...
Craig Van Horne
- Nov 11, 2013
- 3 min
PNY User Story | Jump Studios
Many of my friends and colleagues will know that I’ve been providing technical support, workflow design and post production systems...
Craig Van Horne
- Sep 11, 2013
- 3 min
SpeedLooks by LookLabs enters into Licensing Agreement with Adobe
My friends over at LookLabs, who make the awesome color grading looks… or LUTs (Lookup Tables); SpeedLooks, have entered into a licensing...
Craig Van Horne
- Aug 10, 2013
- 1 min
Top Chef Canada Audition Video
I recently helped out an old friend of mine, Jason Pederson, who is the executive chef at Hotel Blackfoot with an audition video for Top...
Craig Van Horne
- Jun 3, 2013
- 8 min
The Reality of ‘Cost Effective’ Video Production
Money makes the world go round… right? I mean we are employed at our jobs with the expectation that we will be paid an agreeable amount...
Craig Van Horne
- Apr 13, 2013
- 1 min
Recent Work :: That Funny Magic Guy
We had the pleasure of working with an extremely talented magician, Jason Werhun – That Funny Magic Guy, over the years and have now just...
Craig Van Horne
- Apr 1, 2013
- 5 min
Color Grading :: SpeedLooks Irritates Me… In a good way
I’ve said for years that everything needs some level of color correction to fix mistakes or slight imperfections recorded in camera or to...
Craig Van Horne
- Apr 1, 2013
- 1 min
Shareholder Message for TransCanada
Project: CEO Message to Shareholders Agency: Bryan Mills Iradesso Client: TransCanada Pipelines Limited Project Overview We were...
Craig Van Horne
- Apr 1, 2013
- 2 min
New Kit | Teleprompter
We recently did some testing on several teleprompters, Applied Electronics and Autocue were incredibly helpful and in the end we...
Craig Van Horne
- Feb 11, 2013
- 2 min
Canon C100 Grading Test with SpeedLooks
The video below is a grading test of the Canon C100 using it’s internal codec (which is a 4:2:0 color space at 24Mbps AVCHD) so how far...