Griffin Hammond

Happy to report that after 10 months of meticulous training, logging 1,317 miles in 2023, I finished @ChiMarathon quickly enough (3:04:09) to qualify for @bostonmarathon 2025. (I needed 3:10:00 for my age group.) The full 4-minute recap is on TikTok: @griffinjhammond/video/7288465260397333803" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tiktok.com/@griffinjhammo…

C'mon cat—I don't like to pull focus!

A severe red jalapeño shortage means Sriracha fans are feeling the heat. @Griffin hasn't been able to buy any for three months - as he refuses to turn to the black market 🌶 bbc.in/44wghBg

@BasuAshis @raziaiqbal @BBCNews @SrirachaMovie Thank you! Cherish that remaining Sriracha!

@Griffin @raziaiqbal @BBCNews @SrirachaMovie It was a pleasure listening to you Griffin, explaining to Razia about the shortage, like others, I wasn’t aware that the peppers are grown in Mexico, and the founder was a Vietnamese refugee. I was aware that it was produced in America. Fortunately I have half a bottle!

BBC News' @raziaiqbal asked me to explain the ongoing Huy Fong Foods Sriracha shortage, caused by poor jalapeño crop yields and drought in Mexico. Below is a short audio clip from @BBCNews, with footage from @SrirachaMovie.

You can watch my full @CBSNews interview with @AMGreenCBS & @vladduthiersCBS here—youtu.be/_k7tuQ5Nftk

I joined @CBSNews to talk Sriracha 🌶 shortage yesterday. And also made this quick lighting tutorial to explain why I'm using 4 lights for a Zoom call—youtu.be/pQpxNd05BIQ

Have you struggled to find Sriracha at your local grocery store lately? This morning on CBS News Streaming @AMGreenCBS and @vladduthiersCBS spoke with "Sriracha" documentary filmmaker @Griffin about what's behind the shortage of the spicy condiment. cbsnews.com/video/sriracha…

@therecount Does Speaker McCarthy believe people lock their bathroom doors from the outside?

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy compares favorably the discovery of classified documents in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom to classified documents being found in the garage of Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware. “A bathroom door locks.”

@Slot1Gamer Ha, it'd be hard to convince me to work inside a headset. Though @ampsonic tells me Apple's forthcoming headset is rumored to be quite high resolution.

Hey @Griffin what do you reckon about using a VR style headset for colour grading? Or just general no glare editing in a small space? Maybe even mapping edit functions to some VR controllers?

@therecount Ha ha, love the blurred Recount logo. I would've *personally* masked it out.

Wait a minute … this part of Nikki Haley’s new ad attacking Ron DeSantis looks familiar.

@aaronmullfilms I deviated from my usual workflow, and chose to edit *first* in 9:16, selecting shots that best fit that orientation. Like, the 3rd drone shot is better in 9:16. Once published, *then* I changed the timeline to 16:9. The gimbal shots look better in widescreen, more movement.

@Griffin Solid work Griffin! Love the lighting and the overall look in the final piece. How have you found editing vertical content? Obviously I would rather watch and edit horizontal, but I find it can actually be quite fun lining up shots to make them work for vertical.

I like to race the Great Western Half Marathon—but this year I brought my camera, gimbal and drone instead. First time shooting in 6K anamorphic mode on the Lumix GH5M2—the 4:3 aspect ratio gave me extra height to crop vertically for the Instagram/TikTok edit.

This is what the 4:3 shots look like out of the camera (down-rezzed here for Twitter from 6K to 1080.) I suppose I *also* could output this whole edit as a 4:3 version.

Here's the vertical edit, which actually shows some extra vertical resolution that's missing in the 16:9 version. This mode maxes out at 29.97p frames per second—so knowing I didn't need slow motion for the edit—made this mode ideal.

@jrsisson1978 Yes, you got it.

@Griffin That explains it. Thanks Griffin, appreciated 👏👏👏 Would that mean if I shot 50fps at a 50 frame rate (360 degree angle) that would make my slow mo more blurry but if I used that footage at 100% on a 25fps timeline it would look normal as it would be 180 degree at this point?

@jrsisson1978 Are you keeping the camera set to 180°, or are you manually setting it 1/50s, 1/100s or 1/200s? Important to note: if you set it to 1/50s, your camera may not shoot 100fps. (The GH5, for example, when set to 60fps, will drop down to 30fps, if the shutter goes slower than 1/60s.)

@therecount And here I thought Fox News didn't mess with pronouns.

Fox reporter Jeff Flock on airline cancellations: "I have to paraphrase the Taylor Swift song: It's them, they're the problem, it's them, the airlines that is."