Notes On Video

Here’s some quick notes from the three speakers at last night’s Boston Creative Pro User Group meeting : Ben Consoli Final Cut Pro WorkFlow Ben Consoli of BC Media Productions started the evening off with a demonstration of Final Cut Pro X. He explained that he intended to show the workflow, not provide a training session as such. He said that the first thing he does when importing new media from a camera or card is create a camera archive of the material. He then demoed creating metadata in Final Cut Pro X , and how to add metadata, create Roles and use Filters. I’ve seen several metadata demos before, and I understand how they can be useful if you work in a certain way. Unfortunately, I have many bad editing habits, and I tend to just throw things onto timelines and start cutting, rather than go through and tag and divide things up before I start. Maybe if I had a production assistant I would be doing that more... That said, Final Cut Pro X can demo well. The Precisi...

ARRI Says: Don’t Believe the (4K) Hype | Studio Daily And just today I got an email from Best Buy introducing Sony 4K Ultra HD TVs Noting that ARRI is showing footage on a Sony 4K display in its booth, Shipman-Mueller encouraged viewers to take a critical look at those pictures."4K, right now, is way overhyped," he said. "What's more important than resolution is overall image quality. Once you have that, you can upres [the images] to 4K, and they look spectacular." (Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera) Footage in your pocket | John Brawley This footage was shot over about an hour at my local market on Sunday morning.  So yeah, it’s just home movies.    I was literally grabbing shots where I could whilst I was shopping !  But, you do get to see what one man can do with a pocket cinema camera and a 12-35 Panasonic m4/3 zoom.  The Why, The Where and The When to Move the Camera | Shane Hurlbut Motion is a very powerful tool in telling your story. It can ...

The Challenges of Shooting Global News Coverage with Matthew Allard on 4.17.13 | Rule Boston Camera | Vimeo I went to this talk last week, and it was really interesting...worth watching: Award-winning shooter and editor, Matthew Allard, shares his 23+ years of experience covering breaking news stories around the world — from major sporting events to terrorist bombings — while shooting almost exclusively with large sensor cameras.Currently based in Kuala Lumpur, Allard works as Team Leader/Cameras for the Asia/Pacific branch of AL JAZEERA, shooting with HD broadcast cameras including the Sony NEX-FS700, the Sony PMW-F3 and the new Sony PMW-F55 as well as a plethora of Canon DSLRs. Six Questions Apple Needs to Answer in 2013 | Scott Macaulay | Filmmaker Magazine Forget the Apple TV, where’s the Apple TV SDK? The iPhone has been Apple’s growth driver since its launch in 2007. But it wasn’t until the following year, when Apple opened up the iPhone operating system iOS to thi...

Sony E 10-18mm f/4 OSS (SEL-1018) - Lab Test / Review | PhotoZone Another review of this E-mount zoom lens, with some highs and a few lows: The build quality of the Sony lens is, again, impressive. It has mostly an all-metal body based on a metal mount. While this may sound like heavy stuff, it is an amazingly light-weight lens of just 225g. The inner lens tube extends slightly when zooming towards the long end of the zoom range. Both the zoom and focus ring operate smoothly. A plastic, petal-shaped lens hood is also part of the package. Mocha Corner Pin Tutorial | VACD | Vimeo This is a tutorial on how you can track motion in Mocha and apply the corner pin data on your After Effects projects. Why the Sony FS700 won NAB Show 2013 | Tony Reale | NextWaveDV Then I headed over to Sony to get the low-down on their 4K upgrade path. Low and behold, they had a Odyssey7Q hooked up to their FS700. That means Sony is embracing this as an option for FS700 owners. While talking abo...

Sony E 35mm f1.8 and Sony E 10-18mm f4: A Very Good Standard and a Wide Zoom | Ben Boswell | DxO Optics Positive review of these two lenses for Sony NEX cameras, note that the scores might not seem that impressive, but they do well compared to similar lenses. I'm intrigued by the 10-18mm f/4 [$848], though the 35mm f/1. 8 [$448] looks good too, importantly, both support optical image stabilization. If you own a Sony NEX camera and are looking for a wide angle zoom lens and a standard then these are the two. To put their quality into context here are the best similar lenses to fit on a Panasonic Lumix, the Panasonic Leica Summilux DG 25mm f1.4 and the Panasonic Lumix G Vario 7-14mm F4 ASPH. With the slightly smaller Micro 4:3 sensor in the Lumix camera these two lenses are equivalent to a 50mm and a 14-28mm, so a very close match. Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC Lens Hands-On Preview | ePhotoZine A look at this just announced lens, but not really a review. The lens is a solidly b...