Notes On Video

Extending SpeedGrade with SpeedLooks | Eric Philpott | Adobe A short interview with Jeff August of LookLabs, who sells these LUTs for SpeedGrade , and will be giving a free webinar on the 16th: What are SpeedLooks? SpeedLooks are specially designed LUTs which emulate the look of film. They are based on Fuji and Kodak film stocks and they give images character instantly. What gave you the idea for this? For a long time I’ve tried to give a unique look to interlaced video. I wanted my shows to look different from the way broadcast looked – to give video a more filmic personality. More Canon C300 CP's! | BrianCWeed | CinemaEOSUser Some Picture Profiles for the Canon C300 : TRUvid2 was designed to be bright, vivid, & punchy (but not in a cartoony way like you get with EOS Std); for when you need to deliver right away and you know there won't be time for color work. TRUcine looks great out of the box w/ nice DR, really hangs on to the highlights & will grade very ...

SpeedGrade for Aspiring Colorists: A Color Grading Primer for Editors | Adobe Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM US/Pacific I sat in on a SpeedGrade webinar before getting the software. I've since launched the program and become confused, so I'm actually looking forward to seeing how to use the program! Aimed at editors who want to add color grading to their workflow, this seminar will start with a look at the color correction tools in Premiere Pro and then move on to provide a primer in the powerful color capabilities of Adobe® SpeedGrade™ CS6. Open the full dynamic range of your footage and learn how to manipulate light and color to craft picture-perfect results. Now part of Adobe Creative Suite® and Creative Cloud, SpeedGrade gives you the power to push your stories further. Sign up for this live Ask a Video Pro session with award-winning editor and colorist Jeff August to learn more. Adobe Premiere Pro: Applying Audio Effects to Multiple Tracks | Clay Asb...

10 Premiere Pro Tips for FCP Editors | Clay Asbury | Premiumbeat A good resource for those starting out with Premiere Pro : Personally, I save my media/projects to a folder on my media drive (fastest drive). I put my Premiere Auto Saves & Previews/Renders on a seperate drive and back up the projects to Dropbox daily. Whatever strategy you choose, please back up your project! If you forget or need to change your scratch after launching the project, go to Project>Project Settings>Scratch Disk to make modifications. Premiere Pro memory settings explained | Digital Rebellion An explanation of memory management in Adobe's video products: Premiere, After Effects, Encore, Prelude, Media Encoder and Photoshop all use the same memory pool so the RAM is assigned between them. Premiere and After Effects are assigned the highest priority within the pool so closing these applications can improve performance in the other apps. A big addition to this site: The Educational Res...

Importing AVCHD media into Premiere Pro on Mac OS X v10.8 (Mountain Lion) | Todd Kopriva | Adobe A couple of problems with Premiere Pro and the new OS X release: It has come to our attention that Apple has made a change in Mac OS X v10.8 (Mountain Lion) that changes the way an AVCHD folder structure appears to the operating system once imported. This affects the workflow for importing AVCHD media into Premiere Pro CS6. We have also today discovered a bug when using Premiere Pro with Mac OS X v10.8 in which AVCHD media that has gone offline cannot be successfully relinked. Blackmagic Design Releases DaVinci Resolve 9 Public Beta for Mac, Windows and Linux! | Creative COW Blackmagic releases a Public Beta for Resolve 9 , as well as the Lite (free) version: New user interface improvements include a new streamlined project import, export and selection workflow, scrubbable media thumbnails to speed up shot selection, production metadata fields for entering on set shot notes and ...

Panasonic AG-HPX250 Delivers Master Quality In A Compact Size | Tony Muzzatti | Crews Control DP Bill Mills went on a 10 day safari to three conservation areas in southern Africa with the Panasonic AG-HPX250 ($5,595]: The HPX250’s is the first P2 HD handheld camcorder that records in 10-bit, 4:2:2 independent frame, 1920 x 1080 resolution in the AVC-Intra 100 codec. To most professional camera operators and cinematographers the importance of capturing in 10-bits is a must. 10-bit capturing allows for four times more precise color sampling, while also eliminating the video artifacts often seen in 8-bit device recordings. A roundup of the current Blackmagic footage | John Brawley | Blog John recently posted some footage from the Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera , which raised some questions that he addresses in this post: The aliasing is not from the camera in this case, as you can see from looking at the very first clip. This was introduced by the post process. And there's...

I've been working with Premiere Pro CS6 the last few days. I had actually been meaning to give it a go with a project for some time, but just kept putting it off. Finally I decided I just had to do it, so I edited a half hour program with it. I probably should have started with something shorter. The good Before I get in to the problems, I want to note one important thing: it's easy to use and I like the UI. I say that as a Final Cut Pro 7 user who found Final Cut Pro X confusing and discombobulating. By comparison, I’ve so far found working with Premiere Pro very easy. The interface and method of working is close enough to Final Cut that I've been able to do this project without spending time reading manuals or watching tutorials. And the U.I. hasn't frustrated me, so I'm really happy about that. The bad On the other hand, I have had a very perplexing problem with performance. Specifically, jumping from one section to another can sometimes cause the pr...

If you're interested in attending this weeks Rule Boston Camera/Frontline/Canon event with DP Alex Buono of Saturday Night Live, you should register now. The event is filling up and could be full by event day: WHEN: Wednesday, August 1 5:30-6:30pm Food & Drinks 6:30-9pm Presentation with Alex Buono WHERE: WGBH Yawkey Theater One Guest Street, Brighton, MA RSVP : events@rule.com UPDATE: The event is now full

I must admit, at the beginning of the opening ceremonies for the Olympics, I really wondered what we were in for. The large green grass field with people wondering around? It looked like an over-budget school play gone horribly wrong. But then Kenneth Branagh appeared and things started to get interesting. James Bond parachuted in with the Queen, a giant ring was forged and then raised into the sky joining four others with sparks streaming from them (how did they do that?) The Artic Monkeys played Come Together while winged cyclists circled the stadium, and the large bed pans the teams had brought in with them formed the petals of a large flower that formed into the Olympic torch. And then they had fireworks going off all over and around the stadium. The show was an amazing combination of music, film, dancing and visual effects. And imagination. The more I think about it, the more impressed I am that they even pulled it off. I may not watch much of the rest of the Olympics, but...