Notes On Video

Technicolor Cinestyle Test 5 - Canon 60D Color Correction - Manual | Braden Storrs | Vimeo Some test with the Technicolor Cinestyle Picture Style for Canon DSLRs: This is TEST FIVE I am doing to see the range of the Technicolor Cinestyle For Canon EOS HDSLRS. So far I have been very impressed. There has been a large increase in detail in the shadows before grading/color correcting, when compared to the default Standard or Neutral Picture Styles or even the Marvels Cine 3.3 Picture Style. In this test I took the Technicolor Cinestyle clips from the first three tests and Manually Color Corrected in Adobe Premiere CS5. The Sony Nex 5N Kicks The Red Scarlet’s Ass! TBOE Opening Sequence Footage | Jared Abrams | Wide Open Camera Ignore the inflammatory headline, the Sony NEX-5N is still a pretty good camera. I honestly bought it as part of my blogging gear stuff, etc but have totally fallen in love with it. It is so small and portable that I am inclined to have it in my hands al...

Jim Jannard’s(RED) thoughts on the Canon C300, Sony F65, Final Cut X, Etc. | Aspect:Ratios News Jim Jannard of RED posted some thoughts to the REDUser forum, but then there were deleted...but nothing is deleted on the Internet, and you can read them at the above link! I'm not too sure I like his diagnosis of the world economy... RED is about budget. If you can afford an EPIC… buy one. If not, buy a Scarlet. If you can’t afford a Scarlet… wait. The world economy is headed for disaster. If you can’t afford a camera… don’t buy one. If you can’t make money on a camera… don’t buy one. Especially don’t buy one that isn’t upgradeable. Rent. Don’t borrow money unless you have an immediate return. The Sony NEX-FS100 and the First-Ever FS100 Lens Shootout | Shawn Lam | EventDV Live Shawn has put together a lens test with the NEX-FS100 , using a variety of zoom lenses. Note, it appears you can only read it online using a Flash player : And then there is image quality. I actually...

Why will Denoiser Be Temporarily Removed? | Nate Sparks | Red Giant Just a couple of months ago the software application "Get' from AV3 software was pulled when the licensing for the underlying technology was ended. Now the same thing appears to have happened to Red Giant's Denoiser : Because of the Google acquisition, Red Giant no longer has the legal right to sell Denoiser. Unfortunately, you will not be able to purchase or download Denoiser from us, as we have to remove all current and past versions from our website and product catalog. With the next update of Magic Bullet Suite in mid-December, Denoiser will no longer ship with the Suite. Red Giant does say that they are working on a new version of Denoiser they plan to release next year, and will offer it free to existing owners: Our Red Giant team is hard at work developing a new version of Denoiser. In early 2012, the new Denoiser II will be included in Magic Bullet Suite and sold individually. [...] NOTE:...

Documentary Shooter Pierre Deschamps Talks About His Work And Using The New Canon C300 | Pierre Deschamps | DSLR News Shooter Pierre got to spend a day with the C300 and use it as a documentary shooter: My interest was in getting specific answers as a documentary shooter. I was on my own for a day. I wanted to see how this camera would react on a shoot. Would it fit my one-man configuration in my future projects. Would I be able to work with this camera and combine it with a lightweight rig and would all the technical stuff work flawlessly? Picking the Path of an Independent Contractor vs. Studio | Ron Dawson | Planet5D First article in what appears to be an ongoing series on working in the video/film industry: One question you need to ask and answer is, “What kind of business do I want to start? Do I want to primarily be a ‘gun for hire,’ or build a studio?” Over the next couple of weeks, I want to address the path of the independent contractor (“IC”). This is the person who ...

Canon EOS C300 = Awesome | Jonathan Yi | Vimeo Canon evidently asked Jonathan Yi to shoot a video with the C300 , but once he finished it they didn't like his sense of humor and decided not to use it. But you can see it on Vimeo. The video shows the use of a variety of different Canon EF lenses and operation of the camera in different situations: I believe that Canon made a beautiful camera that is sensible, reliable and portable in a way that I've always dreamed a camera could be. It prioritizes great skin tone and has higher ISO sensitivity than any other camera out there. I know there's nothing I can say to change the minds of the RED fan club. For the rest of the skeptics, I think once you get your hands on it you'll understand how great this camera really is. Please buy this camera in January and go film some good skin tones in the dark. You'll love it. Jonathan also wrote this piece about the camera that's posted on Canon's Website: EOS C300 for C...

Movie debut: How Canon's C300 camera was created | Olivier Laurent | British Journal of Photography Olivier Laurent interviews Peter Yabsley , Canon Europe’s manager of the business development professional, video division, about the C300's features and evolution: The C300 doesn’t offer 4k resolution, an increasingly popular format in Hollywood, but Yabsley says Canon is getting there. “The basic gist of it is that we felt it was the most appropriate way to go to start with. This is a camera that is going to be used for a lot of different purposes – especially in broadcast. For that broad market, it made sense to have an HD product [as opposed to one offering a resolution of 4096 × 3112 pixels].” Even so, he adds, the Cinema EOS system is here to stay. “As we explained in Hollywood, this is not a one-shot deal. The C300 is just the start and, while we’re launching with this camera, we’re already looking at what will be the next step and how we’re going to go forward.” The...

CANON EOS CINEMA INTERVIEW | Mat Gallagher | Amateur Photographer Interview with Peter Yabsley, Canon Europe's business development manager for professional video, Michael Burnhill, Canon Europe's professional support specialist and Kojiro Yoshikawa, professional business manager for Consumer Imaging, Canon Europe: MB: The Holy Grail for video cameras is to have a 3-chip design, which is difficult with a large sensor. This is the best solution to give us a 3-chip output from a single chip. There's also a design consideration because, while anything is possible, if you make a bigger chip it uses more power, needs more circuitry and cooling and therefore a change of body design. So when we're considering that we want this to be a small unit, and HD, the question is how we put it all together. We think what we've done with this one is the best overall balance. Canon showcases Cinema EOS System at European Launch | Canon On this page there's a short video wi...

Sony F3 4:4:4 RGB uncompressed workflow | Christoph Tilley | _mxr blog Christoph explains the capture workflow he's using with the Sony PMW-F3 : I am capturing the 4:4:4 output of the F3 into the Ultrastudio 3D connected via Thunderbolt to a 17″ MacBook Pro. The Blackmagic software running on the MacBook Pro is capturing in 10-bit uncompressed RGB and saving the files on a Promise Thunderbolt RAID5. Because the Thunderbolt RAID is so fast I can run an additional task while capturing. Adobe Media Encoder is watching the incoming folder on the RAID and is encoding the uncompressed files to ProRes4444. The finished ProRes files are saved on a 3,5″ SATA HDD docked in an eSATA dock. The dock is connected to the MacBook Pro via an ExpressCard eSATA adapter from Sonnet (that’s why it has to be a 17″ MBP for now until Thunderbolt to eSATA adapters are available). First Short Subject Shot On RED Epic - Austin Orth - Frontside Coffee | Tom Guilmette | Blog Tom writes about how he appr...