Notes On Video

Blackmagic Cinema Camera Problems Solved? Camera Shipping Update: 11/15 | Grant Petty | Blackmagic Forum The good news is that we got a small shipment of sensors that the sensor supplier had tested with their new test setup and they were all ok when we built cameras with them. This is good because they will now be able to see sensors that are contaminated and not ship us anything that's unable to be used to build a camera. Also, the sensor supplier has done a small run of sensors at the new company that's bonding the glass and they got almost a 100% pass rate, which is also great. This means they finally have a solution to bonding on the glass that looks like it will work. Sony F5 and F55 pricing released, by mistake! | Alister Chapman A rough conversion of the prices gives us the following: PMW-F55 Camera Body £23k/$36k PMW-F5 Camera Body £13.6k/$22k ASX-R5 Raw Recorder £4k/$6.5k Sony not doing well financially | Photo Rumors After their stock hit 32 years

I wrote about the Final Cut Pro X presentation at Tuesday nights BOSCPUG meeting, and completely left out a part of the meeting that was perhaps as educational as Abba Sahpiro’s talk. Because in addition to that talk, several film makers talked about – and some even showed - their films at the event. To start things off, Dan Berúbe invited two filmmakers who had shown their films at last weekend SNOB Film Festival to get up and briefly talk about their films. Steve Riley came all the way from Texas with his film Shooter . Steve is a professional photographer by trade, and this is his first film. You can see the trailer on YouTube : Shooter Noel Barlow said she is a couple of years out of film school, and directed and produced ‘Giddy in Love,’ a story about a quirky librarian who is ‘looking for love in all the wrong pages.’ With a cast of 12, she described it as a labor of love. Film website : Giddy In Love Director Marie Della Croce and DP Ben Consoli showed their s

Last nights Boston Creative Pro User Group  meeting featured Abba Shapiro giving a run down on the new features in the 10.0.6 update to Final Cut Pro X . If you haven’t been following Final Cut Pro X ’s evolution, the latest recent upgrade featured a number of UI changes and enhancements, many of which seem to address the complaints that many Final Cut Pro 7 users had when they first tried Final Cut Pro X: Want a preview window as well as a Timeline viewer? FCP X now offers that as an option. Had problems with multi-channel audio? FCP X now lets you Expand Audio Components and start adjusting the individual channels. Frustrated that FCP X didn’t remember the In and Out points for a clip once you start working with another clip? Now FCP X remembers them for you! Found the Magnetic Timeline a little frustrating? Now you can put clips beyond the end of the timeline – it actually inserts a blank slug. You can also move clips that are linked, without having the linked clips m

A Portrait of Stockholm | Den Lennie | F-Stop Academy Shooting with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Zeiss lenses: Why Zeiss? Several reasons really; I like the metal construction as this makes them extremely durable. The ZF .2 are Nikon mount and have built in aperture ring which really does make a tremendous difference when exposing because you can adjust the aperture ring smoothly rather than in stepped increments when using Canon less with electronic iris control. I had two fader ND’s a Heliopan 77mm and a Genus 82mm and a series of adaptor rings for each lens. I’m also using a cheap nikon to canon adaptor that I bough at B&H earlier this summer. Blackmagic Cinema Camera post workflows | Oliver Peters | digitalfilms After Effects offers another solution. You can open CinemaDNG image sequences, make adjustments with its camera raw importer, and then render out final, graded movie files. Naturally, plug-ins like Magic Bullet Looks add more options for custom styles.

“GAME CHANGERS” PART 3: CAMERA AND LIGHTING | Michael Murie | Filmmaker Magazine The third part of the series about the production of the low-budget indie movie Game Changers , with filmmakers Rob Imbs (director) and Benjamin Eckstein (cinematographer): Eckstein : The thing that surprised me is how we’ve been lighting the film. We’ve been pretty sparse in what we have been doing, and I am definitely not a believer in “don’t light.” I love lighting. I think about lighting all the time, it’s totally the thing I’m most passionate about. But it was kind of surprising how much we were working with practical lights and just reshaping practical lights rather than bringing in a ton of our own fixtures. I think that is something that would have been different with the AF100. Every Little Thing You Love | Overdue Films | Vimeo The BOSCPUG SuperMeetUp took place last Friday. Unfortunately, I was only able to be there for the first half hour, but I did get to see a great short film, &qu