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RED Scarlet versus Panasonic GH2 | Andrew Reid | EOSHD A look at some samples from David Cole of 3D rig builders Beampath, shot with the Panasonic GH2 and RED Scarlet : The GH2 is certainly a match for the Scarlet in terms of resolution at 2K, even at a push upscaled to 2.5K. The biggest difference is in latitude and compression in the shadows. The Scarlet has more latitude and a flatter picture profile because of its RAW recording format. Dynamic range is less on the GH2 and the lows look more highly compressed. Here I have boosted the lows in post on both shots to show what is going on… THIS Sunday – Podcast With Philip Bloom | shoot.edit.learn A live podcast with Philip Bloom on Sunday, January 22nd at 5PM Eastern: So it’s that time again! We had so much fun during our last live video podcast and got so much great feedback that we decided to do it again. Karen Abad and I have invited Philip Bloom to join us this Sunday for a live interview and, of course, some q+a from ...

This is fun; but I don't think I can watch more than a few minutes of it; a crowd-sourced Star Wars : Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. The "Director's Cut" is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection.

Filmmaker Ed Burns was on the appallingly bad* " Piers Morgan Tonight " last week talking up his $9,000 film project; Newlyweds . Any indie filmmaker should pay close attention to how Burns has been using social media and other unique ways to finance and promote his movies the last couple of years. I found it particularly interesting that the budget for the $9,000 movie - after post work and other undefined things - was more like $125,000. Not a lot by big movie standards, but much more than $9,000! Burns: I go to film schools all the time and talk to the kids and what's exciting is the playing field has been leveled. Now these kids can get in and they can make a great looking film, and that point of entry is so low. There isn't the economic hurdle anymore. Burns: The thing that's amazing is, using social media now to publicize the film and we've done this thing where theatrical doesn't make financial sense for indie films, for the most part, so we...

Thoughts On DVD Covers | Jared Flesher | Sourlands Jared is working towards completing his documentary Sourlands , and in the latest post on his blog, talks about designing a DVD cover. The feedback I’ve received from designer friends is that it’s a little dark overall, and rather serious. And it is, there’s no two ways around that. But I can live with a little dark and rather serious. If people don’t buy the documentary because they’re not in the mood to watch something serious, I can live with that. Sourlands is entertaining and occasionally funny, but at its heart it’s a serious film. Mixing Voice and Music Fast in Final Cut Pro | Chadwick Paul | Blog A tip for working with audio in Final Cut Pro : Have you ever had a producer tell you to cut a few shots out of your video after you already made the “perfect” mix using clip overlays, keyframes, and rubberbands? Here is an old school technique I use that prevents this frustration. It keeps audio very flexible with the use ...

For some time now I've been hoping that Apple would do some kind of interactive book publishing tool for the iPad . And today my wish was granted; they announced iBooks Author . It looks pretty good too: a sort of Pages / iWeb type application that publishes to the iBook store. Apple has done a couple of nice things too; you can test it on your own iPad locally, and they will let us common folk publish to the iTunes store (previously, if you weren't a big publisher, you had to go through some publishing service.) That's the good news; the bad news? Well apart from the fact that it only supports the iPad (no iPhone ) and if you already have an iTunes publisher account, you'll have to create another account to publish books, there is one little fly in the ointment....it will only run under Lion , and I'm still running Snow Leopard ! (I have a policy on only upgrading OS's when I get a new machine, or when a software application requires it!) So great.....

Last night was the January meeting of the New England chapter of SMPTE . SMPTE meetings are a bit of a hit-or-miss affair for me. Often they are very interesting, but sometimes things go over my head and I start to fall asleep. That was sort of how things were this night, though I did learn a little... Up first was a talk about Holographic television by Michael Bove , Jr. of MIT’s Media Lab. No actual demonstration gear, just a PowerPoint presentation - points off from MIT's "cool" rating for that - though the first part was an interesting discussion of what holographic television is not (we're looking at you, Wolf Blitzer!), and what it is. Michael said that in 2010 IBM claimed that Holographic television was going to be one of the top five technologies to impact our lives over the next five years; though he added that they didn't say what they meant by holographic television. And now that I sort of know what it is, I'm not convinced it will make a dr...

B & H Pre-orders for Canon C300 | NotesOnVideo I already posted the details on the pricing for the C300 and lenses; you can order it from B & H, or your local dealer. I must admit, though I did think the price was going to be $16,000 - didn't everyone - I was hoping it might be a little lower. Not that I could have bought one either way! New Canon EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera Hands-On Review | Trevor Boyer | B & H A 20 minute video about the Canon C300 with Rob Rives from B & H: To devise the EOS C300, Canon leveraged and developed cutting-edge technology from several of its areas of expertise: sensors, image processors, professional video cameras—and of course, optics. The experts at B&H hereby present a hands-on review of the EOS C300, including field and studio tests that put the camera through its paces. Dispelling the myths, is the Canon C300 worth $15,999? | Andrew Reid | EOSHD Andrew isn't that impressed by the C300 ; he thinks you...

Today is the day Canon allowed resellers to set/announce prices for the C300 . So the fact that B & H is now accepting pre-orders probably isn't as surprising as the price; which is exactly what we thought it was going to be: $16,000. I know some were hoping it would be a bit cheaper... Canon EOS C300 Cinema EOS Camcorder Body : $15,999.00 Canon EOS C300 PL Cinema EOS Camcorder Body : $15,999.00 Prices for the lenses have been set now too. Canon CN-E 14.5-60mm T2.6 L S Cinema Zoom Lens with EF Mount : $42,750.00 Canon CN-E 14.5-60mm T2.6 L SP Cinema Zoom Lens with PL Mount : $42,750.00 Canon CN-E 30-300mm T2.95-3.7 L S EF Mount Cinema Zoom Lens : $44,650.00 Canon CN-E 30-300mm T2.95-3.7 L SP PL Mount Cinema Zoom Lens : $44,650.00

derekforeel | Derek Shantz | Twitter Tested Canon C300 vs. Sony F3. F3 was cleaner at low ISO but got macro blocking at higher ISO. C300's noise much more fine and nicer blacks Closing thoughts on the Canon C300 – Late night chatter with Rodney Charters, Drew Gardner and Lan Bui part 3 | Bui Brothers | The Bui Brothers Blog The third - and allegedly last - part of this series on the Canon C300 . 2012 reel | SnapRoll Media | Vimeo SnapRoll has put together a pretty amazing reel of aerial video shots made using remote controlled aircraft: For the past few years, SnapRoll Media has been at the forefront of remotely controlled aerial camera systems. Like most, we started out using DSLR cameras to record video, but it wasn’t long before the image quality wasn’t up to our standards. We began designing and building larger airframes to carry the weight of the cameras we and our clients wanted to use. Equipment: RED EPIC, Phantom Flex, Phantom Gold 2012 reel from SnapRoll Me...

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CES, Thunderbolt and Video hardware | carey dissmore | Blog In this video Carey wraps up CES Thunderbolt news. "A couple of things are becoming clear: A) Thunderbolt is tricky and pretty expensive to develop, heck even the cable, which has chips right in the cable, is $50, and believe it or not, Apple may be selling that at cost. Also many developers are holding off for next-gen chip sets, parts, bridge-ports etc. B) Apple and Intel are working to get the standard adopted by the entire world of PC architecture..." 4K for £4K and why you probably shouldn’t get a JVC HMQ10 | Andrew Reid | EOSHD There doesn't seem to be a lot of enthusiasm for this camera, and maybe that's explained by the way it does 4K; it seems to be a bit of a kludge: So whilst the sensor and the lens are about as unexciting as they get, it DOES do true 4K. I just don’t understand why they took the quadrant approach. SD cards are not suitable for 4K in any guise, putting 4 slots in there...

HELLO 2012! & THE C300 | Casey L. Warren | mindcastle Casey got to spend some time with a pre-production C300 , and has written an extensive piece with his opinions of it: The ISO performance is what really sets this camera apart. It was at first something I underestimated, then I began to pull the images I shot into the computer. 5000 ISO... wow, clean image and almost no grain. 8000 ISO, still a clean and clear image and the grain that was there looked wonderful. At 16000 & 20000 ISO the image definitely had lots and lots of grain, but it was something I could see myself using and being happy about. I think this camera will find its edge in the ISO battle, this is definitely where it's king. French film director Sébastien Devaud uses EOS C300 to make ‘Out of Tunes’ | Canon Short impressions piece with video: “The C300 is a storyteller’s camera,” Devaud tells CPN. He was amazed how quickly he and his crew were able to learn to use the EOS C300. “It’s easy to forget...