
Meet Dan Hastrey, founder of Nightwave Music Media and professional video producer. Hastrey started his career composing music and managing artists. In 2004, he founded Nightwave Music Media and started directing and producing music videos. Hastrey quickly found success creating professional music videos and expanded into documentaries and corporate videos.

Dan Hastrey
With over 80 presets in 5 dynamic filters, NewBlue Film Effects creates a cinematic appearance, complete with blemishes, jitters, spots, scratches, and graininess. This best-selling collection of 81 presets in 5 dynamic filters recreates the inexact mechanics of hand-cranked cameras, dirty projectors, and decades sitting in film vaults.
Join Todor Fay as he demonstrates some of Film Effects’ best techniques and shows you how to give your video a distinct filmic feel and a look you can call your own:
Film Look from NewBlue Film Effects makes your video feel like it was shot on film. In this edition of Tips & Techniques, Ian Stark shows you how to use Film Look’s color and lighting characteristics to create your own signature style.
A 20+ year veteran of the film and television world, Lance Bachelder’s recent credits include Steve Oedekerk’s CG comedy feature Barnyard: The Original Party Animals and the hit Nickelodeon series Back at the Barnyard where he served as Supervising Editor.
Explains Lance,
“We use NewBlueFX to make movies more interesting. These plugins bring originality to our production that is different from other plugins. When we use industry standard plugins, people have already seen the effects, but with NewBlueFX, we get a cool and fresh look.”
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Meet Scott Spiro, a 28 year veteran of professional broadcasting at KNBC and a NewBlueFX user. His work has won dozens of awards, including a national Emmy for the series “Beating the Odds” which he edited.

















