Midland Pictures

07/25/2022

Everyone ready for Monday??? We’ve got rain and cool temps in Omaha tomorrow - that means coffee shop and content creation. Just landed a new sponsorship deal as well on a product I’m REALLY excited to tell you all about. Let’s go Monday!

03/17/2022

I need your help! I adapt my YouTube videos to articles on Medium.com for my Tech/Apple/YouTube-focused publication called M D L N D. Medium is going to demonetize me if I don't get 100 followers. I'm currently at only 28! So if you have an account on Medium, please consider giving me a follow so I can keep earning monthly revenue on the platform.

Here's a link to my publication!

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Read writing from Matthew O'Brien on Medium. Screenwriter, director, editor. Filmmaking YouTuber with 16.2k subs. BFA in Acting. MFA in Screenwriting. Greater Omaha area.

01/14/2022

Gonna try to get a new video up today - all about using Sidecar with Final Cut Pro. Check out my mobile edit bay - iPad mini 6 running Sidecar and my old iPhone XS Max running Stream Deck Mobile with my custom-made button icons. 14” M1 Pro MacBook Pro FTW!

12/20/2021

This is an excellent conversation between two masters of cinema. Highly recommend watching. And…check out Cameron’s edit bay! Looks like he’s got Avid up, and you can see on the left monitor the wallpaper for macOS High Sierra. This is what frustrates me about Avid - Cameron is making a film with tools that seem like they’re plucked right from the future…but he has to edit using an OS that’s 4 yrs old. 🤷🏻‍♂️

James Cameron and Denis Villeneuve discuss the upcoming ‘Avatar’ films, the influence of ‘Dune’, creating worlds within films, the future of streaming and mo...

11/27/2021

Dropped a new tutorial vid on the channel for beginners who are struggling to keep their hard drives from filling up as they import footage & edit in FCP. You should be spending less time in Tech Support mode & more time in the Creative Flow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buBp0MvDr30&t=259s

(also, it was really fun re-creating the "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" title in Affinity Designer...

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11/01/2021

Midland Pictures's latest film - GENERAL DODGE - is available to view! Kate Ryan Brewer and I have been working on this project for the last year and a half, and we're thrilled to share it with you.

You can see the film at the Beresheim House in Council Bluffs, Iowa before taking a tour of The Historic General Dodge House. An incredible home theater system was installed to exhibit this film, and I hope you're able to see it and General Dodge's incredible home in the near future.

Many thanks to the cast, crew, and post-production team who helped bring Kate's vision to life.

Please watch through the end credits to see all the Council Bluffs and Omaha filmmakers who contributed to this film.

This film tells the story of the life of General Grenville M. Dodge of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dodge was a Brigadier General fighting for the Union in the Civil War,…

09/02/2021

I had to do it! Every filmmaking YouTuber *has* to make a Camera Bag vid! So here's mine - fresh out of 2013. Enjoy!

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08/31/2021

Just failed at making my first YouTube Short! With the video being under 1 min in FCP, somehow YouTube sees it as 1:01! Whatevs. Watch it anyway to learn how to edit your a-roll fast!

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08/25/2021

New vid is up! Let's send some love to our beginner video editor friends who are struggling with some of the basics in Final Cut Pro - been seeing these mistakes repeatedly in my Final Cut Groups, so check out this vid to see how you can level up your video editing in Final Cut Pro!

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08/20/2021

New vid is up! Check out my post-production workflow for enhancing dialogue audio in Final Cut Pro.

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08/11/2021

New vid is up! Quick and simple this time around - if you've ever dented a lens then you need to have THIS affordable tool.... Hit me up in the comments of the video with your damaged lens horror stories! 📷😱

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08/06/2021

New vid is up! Taking away more pain from creating with the Canon / Canon BR-E1 Remote: 1. Remote control the shutter 2. Remote control start/stop record. MUST HAVE/GAME CHANGER for YouTubers, Photographers & Filmmakers. Like, share, subscribe!

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