Kirstie Tostevin – FXhome, HitFilm and Star Wars SFX secrets

"Come and Learn the True Power of the Dark Side!" "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker," launches December 20th and FXhome has a lead on SFX secrets! Head of Marketing, Kirstie Tostevin, talks to OWC Host, Cirina Catania, about the company’s new updates to HitFilm Pro, including additional support for After Effects Plug-Ins from Video Copilot and Red Giant. To show off the new capabilities Kristie announces the release of an original, Star Wars themed trailer-style fan film. Organic 3D particle effects, realistic lens flares, 3D planets, realistic heat waves… this film and the accompanying tutorial has it all. And yes, FXhome will even show you how to make your own lightsaber.  Find out why over 4.5 million users love FXHome as Kristie and Cirina talk about this fascinating company and some of it’s coolest new products.  For more information, please visit:  www.fxhome.com Watch the new Star Wars trailer-style video and tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP-WmmxTyuA For more information on OWC, see below and visit MacSales.com to find your perfect workflow solution! For more about our host, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com. If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to [email protected]. Cirina is always up for new ideas! Transcript This is Cirina Catania with OWC Radio. Kirstie Tostevin is on the line with me, and she is head of marketing at FXhome. We're going to talk about them quite a bit. Kirstie, I'm really excited about you because you bridge marketing, technology, and creativity. It's wonderful. So welcome on the show, we have a lot to talk about, and I can hardly wait.  Thank you so much. I'm so pleased to be on your show. I'm really excited. Of course, you're not going to tell me anything different.  I can be quite blunt. Yeah, you're right. There you go. For those of you listening, Kirstie and I met during NAB in April when we were just launching OWC, and we had the founders of FXhome on the show at that time. Kirstie, you and I bonded immediately, I love smart people and creative people, so it's just so nice to reconnect with you. And it just happens to come also on the heels of this monstrous press release that I got about, and I didn't even know where to start, there was a lot in there. So I don't know whether I should thank or curse Kevin for everything that's in here. So let's talk about how as a marketing person, for a tech company, you really do need to know a little bit of everything, right? So what is your background, and how did you get into all of this? Well, that is quite a question. I remember you speaking to Josh, our CEO, in the last interview, and he kind of gave you an answer you didn't quite expect because he started in the history of art.