Notes On Video

THE WEEK IN CAMERAS: CANON GOES MIRRORLESS, BDCC ACCESSORIES AND A NEW SONY CAMERA | Michael Murie | Filmmaker Magazine A look at the Canon EOS M , a little update on the Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera and the Sony PMW-200 : Canon this week announced the Canon EOS M, a small camera that takes an APS-C sensor and stuffs it into a smaller body by doing away with the DSLR mirrorbox and using a new lens mount. The EOS M follows a trail blazed by Canon’s competitors — namely Panasonic and Sony. Sony has had a hit with their NEX- series cameras, and obviously Canon has been watching. July Color Correction | SpliceVine Patrick Inhofer did a series on color correction this month on Splice Vine , and it's wrapped up with an interview conducted with Patrick: The BBC documentary, Do You See What I See? and how it was talking about how a banana tends to always look yellow even under different colored lights. That’s right. Because we imbue meaning to these objects. These are thin...

Continuing from yesterday’s Part 1 , here’s the rest of the notes from this week’s Adobe Presentation by Adobe's Al Mooney at the Boston Creative Pro User Group meeting. Trimming Al explained that they had been told that trimming wasn’t very good, so they completely redesigned it. You can now select an edit point and trim using the keyboard; previously you could only select clips and then trim in the Trim Monitor. Edits can be done by keyboard, or by mouse and you can even select and edit multiple trim points at the same time. There's a check box in Preferences under Trim that you want to turn on: " Allow Selection tool to choose Roll and Ripple trims without modifier key. " This allows you to choose multiple edit points, and it will also make Premiere choose between modes as you move the cursor left and right over the edit point, "it’s clever, it says 'I think that needs to be a ripple in, that needs to be a roll, that needs to be a ripple out.'...

It was a tough room at this weeks Boston Creative Pro User Group meeting, with over half the room putting up there hands when asked who was still using Final Cut Pro 7 . But Adobe sent their headliner, Al Mooney , Adobe Product Manager for Premiere Pro , to explain and demo all the new features: Ladies and gentlemen, The Comedy Styling’s of Al Mooney. “It’s really nice to be able to say BOSCPUG and not BOSFCPUG; number 1 because BOSFCPUG is almost impossible to pronounce and number 2, you’ve dropped the F, and let’s face it, there’s no F in NLE. I thought that was going to work, never mind.” Al proceeded to go through the Creative Production Suite, first highlighting the new tools in the suite including; Story , Prelude and SpeedGrade . “We are giving you a suite of tools designed to give you a perfect workflow from your very initial idea, all the way through to your final delivery.” When he asked who had ever used Adobe Story , only a handful of people put up their hands. “The...

Blackmagic Design Acquires Assets of Cintel International | HD Magazine Some are questioning why Blackmagic would buy a film scanning company, but they do make software for cleaning up film scans, so that's the connection: This acquisition gives Blackmagic Design the ability to combine our vision and expertise with Cintel technology to provide the best technology for artists using film, more efficient and affordable ways to bring film into a digital workflow and better ways to archive and restore existing archive film worldwide. Canon EOS M Video Roundu p | PetaPixel Links to some videos from around the web: It’s been less than 24 hours since Canon announced their first mirrorless camera, and already the Internet is filling up with samples, commercials and hands-on videos for those interested in buying it when it arrives in October. Here’s a video roundup for the new Canon EOS M mirrorless ILC: Mixing Formats: Arri Alexa, Canon 5D and C300 on a New Mexico DOT Spot | Shan...

Matching Sony F3 and FS700 | Alister Campbell | XDCAM User Alister explains how he went about trying to match footage from the Sony PMW-F3 with footage from the NEX-FS700 : So once I had a neutral starting point on the F3 I then turned to the FS700 which I think is very blue. The matrix settings on the FS700 are quite limited so I wasn’t able to get an exact match to the F3, however the setting I came up with get them close enough for most jobs, it’s not perfect but it will do. Why Short-Form Video Is The Future Of Marketing | Kerrin Sheldon | Fast Company Study after study after study shows that more people are using the internet to consume video. In April 2012, ComScore reported that the average viewer watched nearly 22 hours of video in a single month. Most likely, those 22 hours were broken into many short-form videos, each being watched for just a few minutes at a time. Encoding for YouTube: How to Get the Best Results | Jan Ozer | Streaming Media Telestream Episode p...

I first used Premiere back when it was Premiere 1.0 , and 320x240 video at 15 frames per second was pretty awesome. I stuck with the program up through Premiere Pro 1.0 , when Adobe stopped Mac development, and though I had Premiere Pro 1.0 for Windows, I switched to Final Cut Pro (which at that point was at version 4.) I’ve been a happy Final Cut Pro user ever since, and infact I’m still happily editing projects using Final Cut Pro 7 . If I convert material to ProRes first, I can edit footage from AVCHD camcorders and H.264 DSLR footage quite comfortably, and really, at the moment that’s the only thing that makes me want to consider switching; saving some time on Log & Transfer. But Log & Transfer is a known quantity. I tried Final Cut Pro X , and went back to FCP7 , but I’ve continued to evaluate other options. I’ve had Creative Suite 6 since it came out, yet apart from using Photoshop , have been holding off on diving into it. But last week I was starting a new ...

VIDEO INTERVIEW: KINERAW S35 – THE CHINESE DIGITAL CINEMA CAMERA | Dan Chung | DSLR News Shooter Dan got to play with the prototype of this Super35 sized sensor video camera: In my mind there are still question marks about how this camera will perform and only time will tell if it is really as capable as the paper specs promise. Image quality and reliability need to be tested. While the price may be competitive there also needs to be comprehensive global service and backup before I would consider this camera a professional tool. China does not have a history in the digital cinema camera field so I think this company still has a lot to prove. The End of Final Cut Pro 7? ronsussman ‏ @ronsussman  | Twitter Apple has NOT tested FCP7 (studio 3) for Mountain Lion. This could be the straw that breaks the camels back, so to speak The Basics - An Introduction to Exposure & Skin Tone | BackMagicUser A short tutorial on skin tone in DaVinci Resolve: "Sometimes you may wonde...

3 Minute Short Film Challenge BTS | Aaron Strader | Vimeo I already wrote about the 3 Minute FIlm Challenge ( Filmmaker :  INSIDE A THREE-MINUTE FILM COMPETITION ) but Aaron Strader made a Behind-The-Scenes video: I was asked at the beginning of the day to shoot a BTS by Paul Antico and Rick Macomber. Shot everything with my Canon 60d. Big thanks to Todd Mahoney for supplying me with great GoPro video! Part of the July 1, 2012 "Under 3 Minute Film Challenge" sponsored by Anticipate Media and Macomber Productions. For this challenge each cinematographer, using a pen as a prop, had to produce a narrative script and shoot it in a few hours on location at The Willows Park in Salem, MA. In addition the phrase "This isn't going to be easy" also had to be used in the story. 3 Minute Short Film Challenge BTS from Aaron Strader on Vimeo . Interview with the creator of the Automatic Speech Alignment feature in Audition CS6 | Ellen Wixted | Adobe Brian King ...

The next BIG THING is coming | Sony Professional | Facebook Sony Professional has posted the following graphic on their Facebook page and invited people to guess what's coming. Given that they say to stay tuned to www.sony.com/xdcam , it would appear to be some sort of professional video camera. Could it be a new version of the PMW-F3 ? Or 4K support for the NEX-FS700 ? Or something else entirely? Preparing for Battle as a No-Budget Filmmaker | LEWIS MCGREGOR | Dare Dreamer Lewis documents his low-budget production: There is a high chance that a no-budget filmmaker will have 3 things — a DSLR, a pirated copy of Adobe’s software, and an overall amount of knowledge of special effects from Video Copilot. When you start the film you start at the very bottom, once your cast has been cast, locations found and it comes to the end of your pre-production as a no-budget filmmaker you may have noticed you have solely inherited these responsibilities Epic Slow Mo with the Sony FS70...

INSIDE A THREE-MINUTE FILM COMPETITION | Michael Murie | Filmmaker Magazine I finally finished the write-up of a recent gathering of local DPs and actors to shoot some quick projects. It's up on Filmmaker's site: Freelance videographer/filmmaker Sean Meehan had connected with Rick just two months earlier when Jared Abrahms had retweeted that Rick was looking for a shooter to assist on a documentary. For this event, “Rick put out that he was looking for some actors,” said Sean, “and I responded to him on Twitter asking, ‘What age range are you looking for? I might have some people.’ He told me the age range, and then in the second tweet right afterwards he said ‘Also, do you want to work with the C300 in a little while?’, and I jumped at it.” EXCLUSIVE: Blackmagic Answers Your Questions about Their New Cinema Camera | FilmmakerIQ An interview with Blackmagic President Dan May on the forthcoming Blackmagic Digital Cinema Camera : [BMD] We are just waiting finish a few ...

14-year veteran of the Saturday Night Live Film Unit, Alex Buomo will share how shooting with Canon DSLRs, along with the new Canon C300 has revolutionized the way he works. 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

“THE SOLAR ODYSSEY”: SHOOTING WITH THE SONY NEX-FS100, PART TWO | Michael Murie | Filmmaker Magazine The second part of an interview I did with Todd Mahoney about his experience with the Sony NEX-FS100: You were using the kit lens? Yes. The only problem with the kit lens is if you are trying to do a zoom pull, it’s very tight. It’s not smooth enough; that was the only downside of the lens. I think that with the FS700, when they make a lens for the rocker, that will solve that. Overview of Miller Compass series of tripods | Philip Bloom Philip looks at just some of the tripods he uses: A good tripod should be right up at the top of your list when you buy kit, along with some basic lighting and basic sound gear. Before a camera, before lenses. Why? Because these are not camera specific. They will also last you through multiple cameras. A good tripod will last a hell of a long time, that is if you spend money. I had been asked to recommend a good tripod recently for $100. I could...

Adobe SpeedGrade CS6 provides powerful, advanced video color grading | Jeff Foster | MacWorld While it’s a powerful color grading and filmic effects creation tool with 3D stereographic finishing capabilities, it may not be for everyone, or practical to use on every video production you edit. The workflow takes some getting used to, but if its effects are needed, the learning curve will prove worthwhile. Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Review | Ron Risman | CameraTown Premiere Pro is not a consumer piece of software, and as such, it really shines when it has the necessary power, ram, and storage to let itself go. While Premiere Pro CS6 will run on most computers with a minimum of 4GB of memory, there are some basic hardware requirements that your PC should have to really allow the software to shine. First, your PC needs to have a 64-bit processor (most of the computers in the past 3-4 years do). Why Can't We Have Beautiful Digital Cinema Cameras? | Joe Marine | NoFilmSchool Article...