Notes On Video

Technicolor Cinestyle Test 5 - Canon 60D Color Correction - Manual | Braden Storrs | Vimeo Some test with the Technicolor Cinestyle Picture Style for Canon DSLRs: This is TEST FIVE I am doing to see the range of the Technicolor Cinestyle For Canon EOS HDSLRS. So far I have been very impressed. There has been a large increase in detail in the shadows before grading/color correcting, when compared to the default Standard or Neutral Picture Styles or even the Marvels Cine 3.3 Picture Style. In this test I took the Technicolor Cinestyle clips from the first three tests and Manually Color Corrected in Adobe Premiere CS5. The Sony Nex 5N Kicks The Red Scarlet’s Ass! TBOE Opening Sequence Footage | Jared Abrams | Wide Open Camera Ignore the inflammatory headline, the Sony NEX-5N is still a pretty good camera. I honestly bought it as part of my blogging gear stuff, etc but have totally fallen in love with it. It is so small and portable that I am inclined to have it in my hands al...

Jim Jannard’s(RED) thoughts on the Canon C300, Sony F65, Final Cut X, Etc. | Aspect:Ratios News Jim Jannard of RED posted some thoughts to the REDUser forum, but then there were deleted...but nothing is deleted on the Internet, and you can read them at the above link! I'm not too sure I like his diagnosis of the world economy... RED is about budget. If you can afford an EPIC… buy one. If not, buy a Scarlet. If you can’t afford a Scarlet… wait. The world economy is headed for disaster. If you can’t afford a camera… don’t buy one. If you can’t make money on a camera… don’t buy one. Especially don’t buy one that isn’t upgradeable. Rent. Don’t borrow money unless you have an immediate return. The Sony NEX-FS100 and the First-Ever FS100 Lens Shootout | Shawn Lam | EventDV Live Shawn has put together a lens test with the NEX-FS100 , using a variety of zoom lenses. Note, it appears you can only read it online using a Flash player : And then there is image quality. I actually...

Why will Denoiser Be Temporarily Removed? | Nate Sparks | Red Giant Just a couple of months ago the software application "Get' from AV3 software was pulled when the licensing for the underlying technology was ended. Now the same thing appears to have happened to Red Giant's Denoiser : Because of the Google acquisition, Red Giant no longer has the legal right to sell Denoiser. Unfortunately, you will not be able to purchase or download Denoiser from us, as we have to remove all current and past versions from our website and product catalog. With the next update of Magic Bullet Suite in mid-December, Denoiser will no longer ship with the Suite. Red Giant does say that they are working on a new version of Denoiser they plan to release next year, and will offer it free to existing owners: Our Red Giant team is hard at work developing a new version of Denoiser. In early 2012, the new Denoiser II will be included in Magic Bullet Suite and sold individually. [...] NOTE:...

Documentary Shooter Pierre Deschamps Talks About His Work And Using The New Canon C300 | Pierre Deschamps | DSLR News Shooter Pierre got to spend a day with the C300 and use it as a documentary shooter: My interest was in getting specific answers as a documentary shooter. I was on my own for a day. I wanted to see how this camera would react on a shoot. Would it fit my one-man configuration in my future projects. Would I be able to work with this camera and combine it with a lightweight rig and would all the technical stuff work flawlessly? Picking the Path of an Independent Contractor vs. Studio | Ron Dawson | Planet5D First article in what appears to be an ongoing series on working in the video/film industry: One question you need to ask and answer is, “What kind of business do I want to start? Do I want to primarily be a ‘gun for hire,’ or build a studio?” Over the next couple of weeks, I want to address the path of the independent contractor (“IC”). This is the person who ...

Canon EOS C300 = Awesome | Jonathan Yi | Vimeo Canon evidently asked Jonathan Yi to shoot a video with the C300 , but once he finished it they didn't like his sense of humor and decided not to use it. But you can see it on Vimeo. The video shows the use of a variety of different Canon EF lenses and operation of the camera in different situations: I believe that Canon made a beautiful camera that is sensible, reliable and portable in a way that I've always dreamed a camera could be. It prioritizes great skin tone and has higher ISO sensitivity than any other camera out there. I know there's nothing I can say to change the minds of the RED fan club. For the rest of the skeptics, I think once you get your hands on it you'll understand how great this camera really is. Please buy this camera in January and go film some good skin tones in the dark. You'll love it. Jonathan also wrote this piece about the camera that's posted on Canon's Website: EOS C300 for C...

Movie debut: How Canon's C300 camera was created | Olivier Laurent | British Journal of Photography Olivier Laurent interviews Peter Yabsley , Canon Europe’s manager of the business development professional, video division, about the C300's features and evolution: The C300 doesn’t offer 4k resolution, an increasingly popular format in Hollywood, but Yabsley says Canon is getting there. “The basic gist of it is that we felt it was the most appropriate way to go to start with. This is a camera that is going to be used for a lot of different purposes – especially in broadcast. For that broad market, it made sense to have an HD product [as opposed to one offering a resolution of 4096 × 3112 pixels].” Even so, he adds, the Cinema EOS system is here to stay. “As we explained in Hollywood, this is not a one-shot deal. The C300 is just the start and, while we’re launching with this camera, we’re already looking at what will be the next step and how we’re going to go forward.” The...

CANON EOS CINEMA INTERVIEW | Mat Gallagher | Amateur Photographer Interview with Peter Yabsley, Canon Europe's business development manager for professional video, Michael Burnhill, Canon Europe's professional support specialist and Kojiro Yoshikawa, professional business manager for Consumer Imaging, Canon Europe: MB: The Holy Grail for video cameras is to have a 3-chip design, which is difficult with a large sensor. This is the best solution to give us a 3-chip output from a single chip. There's also a design consideration because, while anything is possible, if you make a bigger chip it uses more power, needs more circuitry and cooling and therefore a change of body design. So when we're considering that we want this to be a small unit, and HD, the question is how we put it all together. We think what we've done with this one is the best overall balance. Canon showcases Cinema EOS System at European Launch | Canon On this page there's a short video wi...

Sony F3 4:4:4 RGB uncompressed workflow | Christoph Tilley | _mxr blog Christoph explains the capture workflow he's using with the Sony PMW-F3 : I am capturing the 4:4:4 output of the F3 into the Ultrastudio 3D connected via Thunderbolt to a 17″ MacBook Pro. The Blackmagic software running on the MacBook Pro is capturing in 10-bit uncompressed RGB and saving the files on a Promise Thunderbolt RAID5. Because the Thunderbolt RAID is so fast I can run an additional task while capturing. Adobe Media Encoder is watching the incoming folder on the RAID and is encoding the uncompressed files to ProRes4444. The finished ProRes files are saved on a 3,5″ SATA HDD docked in an eSATA dock. The dock is connected to the MacBook Pro via an ExpressCard eSATA adapter from Sonnet (that’s why it has to be a 17″ MBP for now until Thunderbolt to eSATA adapters are available). First Short Subject Shot On RED Epic - Austin Orth - Frontside Coffee | Tom Guilmette | Blog Tom writes about how he appr...

Canon EOS C300 Price Drop Already? [CR1] | Canonrumors When Canon announced the C300 they gave an approximate price of $20,000, though some reporters have said that it seemed like Canon hadn't really finalized the price. Canon still hasn't confirmed a price, but now there's reports that the price will be closer to $16,000, though there had been speculation that the street price would be about $16,000 when it was announced... A hands on look at the Canon C300 | Philip Bloom | Blog Philip Bloom got to spend some time with Canon reps discussing the C300 and reports: Honestly the Scarlet and the C300 seem like two different cameras for two different markets to me. The Scarlet is aimed squarely at the lower budget narrative crowd (though not the micro budget as it still costs a lot) whereas the C300 feels to me like a great large sensor broadcast camera. The specs meet the minimum broadcast standard for the majority of big HD broadcasters. 422 50mb/s in camera which t...

Since I bought a Steadicam Smoothee for iPhone 4 I can't very well look down on the mobislyder ...can I? And unlike the Smoothee , this will work with any phone, and some small camcorders too. I mean, it might be kind of fun and useful in some situations, particularly if you have a phone that does 1080p video!? It's supposed to start shipping December 12th, and will cost about $135. Mobislyder: The New Star of Video Production in the Mobile Age MOVE OVER Spielberg and Tarantino, the cinematic style of big movie making has gone viral with the launch of mobislyder - the world's first portable dolly designed specifically for smartphones and compact cameras. The mobislyder, a new innovation from Glidetrack, the world's leading camera slider company, is set to revolutionise mobile device video production. Stylish and ultraportable, the mobislyder has been designed from the ground up to suit a broad range of small video-enabled devices - including iPhone, Android sm...

I've found my iPad quite useful for recordings meetings, and the idea of using a better microphone with the iPad (or iPhone ) is intriguing. However, while the iPhone might be useable in an emergency, I'm not sure I want to use it regularly as a recording device; for one thing, you have to remember to put it into Airplane mode so you don't get calls while recording! Anyway, Tascam announced this intriguing little add-on: MONTEBELLO, CA (November 21, 2011) – TASCAM, a well known veteran for creating home recording devices, today introduced a pocket sized iM2 stereo mic for iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch. TASCAM’s iM2 turns the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch into a high-quality stereo recorder. A pair of condenser microphones – same high quality as TASCAM’s best-selling DR-series recorders – plugs into the dock connector of your Apple device. The microphones are adjustable over 180 degrees for optimal sound placement. The iM2 contains its own microphone preamp and analog-to-di...

I'm usually wary of Black Friday sales, as I get enticed into buying something that's old or discontinued, and that I don't really need. That said, several online retailers are offering Canon's M400 , M40 and M41 camcorders at substantial discounts through November 26th. These camcorders were released just this year, and have received pretty positive reviews. Features include: 2 x SD/SDHC/SDXC Memory Card Slots 2.37MP 1/3" CMOS Sensor 10x HD Video Lens Dynamic SuperRange Optical IS Canon DIGIC DV III Image Processor Microphone and Headphone Connections The M4x range is Canon's mid-level consumer camcorders, but with the $250 rebate, the M40 now costs as much as Canon R21 , which is in their budget line! Differentiating between them? The VIXIA HF M400 [$329] is the base model. It has only the dual SD SD/SDHC/SDXC slots for recording. The VIXIA HF M40 [$349] adds 16GB of internal memory, and built in HD-to-SD down conversion. The VIXIA HF M41...

Extra Ordinary | Sony Sony UK has Philip Bloom making some movies, and there's a chance to win an NEX-FS100 (though it seems to be limited to people living in Europe): Sony Professional has teamed up with director Philip Bloom to create the 'Extra.Ordinary' series of short films, looking at how to create amazing footage from everyday events. Click here to access our Extra.Ordinary Facebook hub to see the videos as they go live, and discover the techniques Bloom used to shoot these remarkable films. Also, enter your own film idea to be in with a chance to win a Sony NEX-FS100EK, and have Philip Bloom make your idea into film reality! To buy a Scarlet EPIC or not to buy, that is the question… | RedUser There's been some Philip Bloom bashing on the RED forum after his comments about the EPIC . Jim Jannard comes to the rescue: Anyone who suggests that Philip is being paid by another company to write negatively about his own camera is nuts... and the inference...

Paul Antico passed along this link to a post from Mark Forman listing the expected firmware additions to the Sony NEX-FS100 and HXR-NX70U cameras. For the NEX-FS100 : Added 50Hz recording system (PAL): 1920x1080 50p, 50i, 25p and 1280x720 50p. Camera Profile (camera settings can be saved to and loaded from a memory card). Additional 4x and 8x Expanded Focus magnification: (with user selectable focus area). Selectable ISO or GAIN sensitivity display. Selectable Focus indication in FEET or METERS (E-mount lens only). Selectable Shutter indication as EXPOSURE TIME or SHUTTER ANGLE. Added the following Aspect-Ratio markers: 2.35:1, 1.85:1 and 1.66:1. Display ON/OFF button enables Zebra and/or Histogram overlay onto video output. Compatible with the new A-Mount to E-Mount adaptor, model LA-EA2. One push Auto-IRIS and Continuous 15-point, Phase-Detection Auto-Focus operation with most Alpha A-Mount lenses is available. Lens metadata is displayed onscreen and stored real time t...

Red Scarlet, Canon C300, and the Paradox of Choice | Stu Maschwitz | Prolost A very long, thoughtful post that looks at not just the Scarlet and C300 , but the Sony PMW-F3 , NEX-FS100 , Panasonic AG-AF100 and DSLRs as well. It may be better described as a Super35 roundup: But perhaps the most shocking capability of the C300 is its latitude. It’s here that the comparison with the Alexa is most surprisingly appropriate. The C300 simply has a jaw-dropping ability to hold shadow and highlight detail in the same frame. Check out this frame from Mobius, shot in near-noontime sun, with only natural light. Den Lennie Reviews the Cineroid LED | Den & James | Vimeo A video review of the Cineroid.com LED light. The output is super bright and has a CRI of over 90 making it very colour stable and consistent. It has a built in fan also to keep the heat-sink cool and further maintain colour accuracy. You have the option to switch the fan to off/on or auto if you are recording sync sound...