Notes On Video

It was 43 years ago that man landed on the Moon. And 40 years ago that the last man stepped foot on the Moon. The best book I have read about what it's like to be an astronaut is Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys by Michael Collins, who was the Command Module Pilot on Apollo 11. The one that didn't set foot on the Moon. Collins says in his book that Armstrong actually said: That's one small step for A man; A giant leap for mankind But a drop-out in the radio transmission cut out the 'a'. The quote makes more sense with the 'a,' but try telling that to everyone that constantly quotes it without. WBUR: Neil Armstrong, First Man To Walk On The Moon, Dies

Filmmaker will not believe me on this: NEX-VG900 Full Frame E-mount camera for a tiny bit more than 3.000 Euro! | SonyAlphaRumors Hmmm...if true, wow! Though that equals ~$4,000US, which would place it in the same price as the NEX-EA50 ... Oh, one more, thing, will the E-mount support a full-frame sensor? Sony will announce the new NEX-VG900 at around mid September. It is a Full Frame E-mount camcorder (Full Frame in photographic terms!). And it costs just a bit over 3.000 Euro! It records 1080p60 in AVCHD format (24Mbps/s). A FF camcorder for 3.xxx Euro is something almost unbelievable. Short overview of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera menus | Sebastian Wiegärtner | Facebook Short overview of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera menus. Excuse bad audio quality, recorded with my iPhone 4! Unboxing BMCC | Frank Glencairn | YouTube FOR THE RECORD:This is my first and last unboxing video ever .... I mean it, really.I did it just because I had a ton of requests bombing my ma...

Canon  C500 Price finally out... 20 000£ | Jim Martin | DVXUser I've been told that Canon will have a press release out either at the end of this week or next week regarding delivery and price on the C500, pricing on the smaller cinema zooms shown at NAB....and maybe something else! As soon as its out, we'll have it up on our site. Rumored high megapixels Canon EOS-3D X and EOS-7D Mark II cameras | Photo Rumors Rumors of new cameras from Canon are heating up: Canon EOS-3D X specifications: 46 MP 3.7 frame per second Dual DIGIC 5+ ISO: (25) 50-6400 (12800) VIDEO INTERVIEW: SONY’S NEX EA50 DEMONSTRATED | Dan Chung | DSLR News Shooter Dan gets to play with the new Sony at the BIRTV show in Beijing. Dan thinks the image out of the NEX-EA50 is better than the NEX-5N , but Sony isn't yet saying whether the chip is the same. It appears that - at least in some markets - Sony will be selling it with and without the lens: The camera feels very light in the hand a...

The Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera   [B&H: $2,995] hasn't arrived yet - though some people are being promised it soon - but they have created a new forum for the camera, and have posted some files captured with the camera: Blackmagic Forum | Cinematography | John Brawley | Forum To launch this new forum, BMD are making Cinema DNG files available to download. These DNG's from my recent shoot with director Ben Phelps, Afterglow. Afterglow was done with a shipping version of the camera though it's likely that the software will have been updated by the time many of you get your cameras. AFTERGLOW – DNG’s are out in the wild | John Brawley | Blog John writes about the content himself: A RAW workflow means the sensor data is recorded in camera but not processed until the images are loaded in post where the user can either choose to keep the settings that were selected by the cinematographer at the time of shooting or choose and optimize for a different set of setti...

About a week ago my MacBook Pro's trackpad started acting up. I did a Google search and the first thing that came up was that excessive heat could cause the trackpad to misbehave. And the MacBook Pro had been feeling a bit toasty lately. I installed the Fan Control control panel, and was running the Activity Monitor app as well to see what was going on. Things seemed okay, though I couldn't figure out what the graphic in Fan Control meant. But the temp it reported was mostly okay, and it seemed the fans were working. But the trackpad seemed to be getting worse, no matter how frequently I'd put the computer to sleep "to cool down." I definitely thought it was temperature related; it seemed to get worse the longer I used it. I did notice a couple of things along the way that were unexpected; Word 2001  (with it's PowerPC emulation) can suck up more processing cycles than Word 2010 . Sometimes. Oh, and the Google Talk plugin was running and sucking up...

THE WEEK IN CAMERAS: SONY NEX-EA50 AND ZACUTO SHOOTOUT | Michael Murie | Filmmaker Magazine I look at the Sony NEX-EA50 , and the controversy over the Zacuto shootout: What is the Internet without a bit of controversy? Last week Zacuto released the third and final part of their “Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout.” The second episode had already created controversy when Gizmodo reported that no less than Francis Ford Coppola preferred the Panasonic GH2 over the Sony FS65. Tutorial - After Effects Part 5 - Windows and Tabs | Chris Fenwick | One On One Many people get confused when they accidentally close too many windows in After Effects and can’t get stuff back to where it was, let alone where they want it. This video will show you around how to customize your windows and tabs. Mac Pro RAID setup | Paul Joy | Blog Paul documents setting up a new RAID: It took 15 hours for the RAID 5 set to build. Once complete the common ‘This Disk needs to be initialised” appeared on my ...

Ep. 9 - Notes On Video | Need Creative Podcast | Anticipate Media I'm on the latest episode of the Need Creative podcast. I have to say, Paul does an amazingly great job on this show; how does he manage to talk so long without going 'umm' or 'ahhh' and soud so coherent? I don't know how he does it. Anyway, it was fun to chat with him and Jason, and talk about the new Sony NEX-EA50 , the Zacuto shootout, this blog, and my acting tips: In this ninth episode of the NeedCreative Podcast, your co-hosts Paul Antico and Jason Sidelinger were joined by Special Guest via Skype (a very clean connection this time), Michael Murie of the Notes on Video Blog, to discuss the past week's events in indie filmmaking and technology, and to discuss universal themes in storytelling. CAMERAS: The Zacuto Fallout Continues | Art Adams | ProVideoCoalition Art continues documenting the reporting from Zacuto's camera shootout: The other problem is that every article firs...

I'm very interested in the just announced Sony NEX-EA50 ; partly because of the form factor (an ENG layout is more useful for the kinds of things I shoot) and partly because of the price. That said, I do have some questions about it that I hope will get answered soon. Some are important, and some are just out of curiosity: What sensor/processor is in there? Is it the same as the NEX-5N , or is it upgraded? It's obviously not the same sensor as the NEX-FS100 , which is a 3.43MP sensor, vs the NEX-EA50 's 16.1 MP. It seems likely that the low-light performance won't be quite as good and there will be more moire effects. What is the sensor size? Sony uses Super35 designation for the NEX-FS100 and APS-C for the NEX-EA50 , though the two are very close. I've seen the EA50 quoted as being 23.6 x 15.8, yet other numbers are often quoted for APS-C. The NEX-FS100 is quoted as being 23.6 x 13.3 mm. Is it just that APS-C adds more pixels for the still picture aspec...