Notes On Video

Announcement Soon [CR3] | CanonRumors Excitement grows about a possible update to the Canon 5D : Things are heating up and we’re going to see an announcement soon. February 28, 2012 is still shaping up as the day of an announcement, though it could be a week later. We’ll be seeing a full frame camera announced. We’re still unsure if it’ll be a 5D Mark III or a 5D X. Highlights of BVE London. The broadcast video expo! Cool toys everywhere!! | Philip Bloom | Blog Philip talks about the BVE show. He notes that "there's nothing really sexy and new" at the show, though that might be attributable to the fact that the English hold this show two months before NAB: I check out the MTF EF adaptor which is now for sale, the Sony F65, C300, the excellent AJA I/O XT, the JVC 4K and the Atomos Samurai amongst others… Final Draft Inc Announce New Technical Support Policy | movieScope In addition to their iPad app Final Draft Reader , Final Draft have changed their support p...

Awesome Directors Project : Cinematic Lighting Tutorial | Indy Mogul | Youtube A very interesting behind-the-scenes video where the director shows how he put together a scene, including framing and lighting: Filmmaker Tom Antos, this month's Awesome Director, demonstrates how storyboarding and strategic lighting design are key to achieving a cinematic look. Accelerate your RED workflow with Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS5.5 | Adobe Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM US/Pacific A free webinar from Adobe: Join this webinar to learn how you can enable a robust workflow for editing, grading, and delivering native R3D footage in real time using Premiere Pro. See Wes Howell and Ted Shilowitz step through the RED editing workflow in Premiere Pro, including selecting RED sequence presets, quickly importing clips without transcoding or rewrapping, switching playback resolutions to meet the performance and image quality needs of every post-production task, adjusting the look o...

DP David Kruta On Shooting The Movie “Concussion” | Michael Murie | Filmmaker I interviewed David recently about shooting this indie movie with the REP Epic : I fought to shoot it on the Epic. I think something like an Alexa might have actually slowed us down because there was a lot of handheld shots. The movie was almost entirely handheld, so the small size and weight was really helpful. We had Zeiss Superspeeds – mainly for the price and the speed at which they can shoot – so it was great having these light, little lenses where you could shoot at 1.3. This was very important because we shot mostly available light, or modified with silks, but it was almost entirely available light and small lamps. DSLR Video Viewing Accessories | Photo This & That A review/comparison of two viewfinders (the Zacuto Z-Finder EVF Pro and Cineroid EVF4L ) and the Marshall  V-LCD50-HDMI monitor. Ultimately, he prefers the monitor: Unlike other Marshall monitors, the five-inch version uses...

RED Scarlet X – Review | Greg Blakey | Melbourne Geek An in-depth look at the RED Scarlet X : Quite frankly this image resolution is ridiculous in most instances, but so damn good. It is a ‘get out of jail free’ card when it comes to cropping or re framing a shot. I would not necessarily go to 1-to-1 pixel’s as you lose some of the clarity, but you do have a lot of room to move. Then once you go down to HD everything pulls together, it feels crisp and solid. Final Cut Pro X Advanced Tutorial - Multi-Cam in 10.0.3 | Dan Allen | YouTube One of the first tutorials I've seen on using the new multi-cam feature: In this HD Voice Tutorial for Apple Final Cut Pro 10 we learn how to use the built in Multi cam feature as of the recent update version 10.0.3 which automatically aligns your video footage, clips, material and audio streams, clips media etc based on either Timecode, audio waveforms and sounds as well as date of creation. A very flexible advanced tool. Adobe Production P...

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Flying with gear… | Philip Bloom | Blog Philip explains how he gets lots of gear onto planes: With smaller cameras it’s a bit easier, they can go in smaller bags like the ones Petrol make below (which take my C300 or FS100 just fine, too tight for my F3). My main carry on bag is made by Think Tank. I use the Airport Security V2 when flying to the US and back or internally there and the Airport International for the rest of the world. The US hand luggage max size is slightly bigger than the rest of the world…like the country 7toX for Final Cut Pro 1.0.1 – Details on the Bug Fixes | Philip Hodgetts | Blog Only a few days after release, and already an update to 7toX for Final Cut Pro  for XML transfer with FCPX : Bug fix for DV 720×576 sequence settings Bug fix for 44.1 kHz audio settings Bug fix for 0% Speed Rate Bug fix for markers on Generators Bug fix for non-standard frame rates. Final Cut Pro X Multicam Editing | Webinar | FilmmakingWebinars March 13, 2012 @ 10:...

I thought I'd done a pretty good job of explaining the differences between the Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle Thuderbolt [$227], the Intensity Extreme [$284] and the Intensity Pro  [$189] card the other day, but it appears not, because at least Patrick Inhofer expressed confusion about it (but then, he is getting old ...) To recap, these are capture devices that support 10 bit HD/SD with HDMI, analog component, composite and S-Video connections. Here's another way of choosing between the three models*: You're on your own from here... *Of course, the Intensity Extreme could be used on an iMac and the Intensity Shuttle on a MacBook , but I'm trying to simplify things for you!

I installed a 16GB upgrade into the iMac  yesterday. It was probably one of the easiest memory upgrades I've done, but still wasn't quite as simple as it seemed in the diagrams on the Apple Tech Note . I should note right up front that I'm bit of a techno-phob when it comes to doing hardware upgrades/installs, which I blame on the time I practically blew up a NuBus card on a Mac II . Apple provides detailed instructions that recommend lying the iMac down on a towel and attacking the memory slot from the side. That might work on a table, but after clearing the floor, I found I did most of the installation with the computer resting on its top edge. The next problem I encountered was that the Philips head screwdriver I had didn't fit the screws! A quick trip to the hardware store solved that problem. The screws are short and only have to be turned a two or three times (above). After removing the cover, you pull out the two plastic ribbons (below). If you...

Apple TVs are disappearing from shelves, could see an update next month as well | Seth Weintraub | 9to5 Mac There are rumors of an iPad 3 announcement in early March, and now the AppleTV is disappearing from stores too: But we also learned of another Apple Jxx product, the next AppleTV, codenamed J33 in the 5.1B software. Perhaps besides both showing up in iOS 5.1 software, the Jxx devices are also A6 devices? Episode 41: The fallout from Bunim Murray’s NLE choice | The Terence and Philip Show Everyone's talking about Avid's recent profit as though this indicates a big turnaround, yet don't forget that just back in November they had a lay off of 750 staff. I think it will be another couple of years before we really know what happened in the NLE market: Starting with the decision to go to Media Composer at Bunim Murray, Terence and Philip discuss the state of NLEs today and the business behind them. Its a long show and it covers a lot. Casey Warren of Mindcastle...