Posted By Neil Matsumoto
At last year’s NAB, I got a chance to check out Assimilate’s Scratch Lab, an innovative software tool that allows a DIT or video engineer to be able to create professional production dailies for review. It combines a fast review process, shot, timecode, and LUT metadata, audio sync and fast background rendering – all in one
Posted By Clint Milby
During the the 11th Anual San Francisco SuperMeet, Jen Rappolt-Noyes of Tiffenon hand to show off their latest application, Dfx Version 3.0. The Dfx Digital Filter Suite simulates specialized lenses, optical lab processes, film grain, extracting color correction as well as natural light and photographic effects. The new Tiffen Dfx Version 3.0 has enhanced, multi-processor
Posted By David Willis
Here’s an interesting video story out of Miami-Dade, where a staunch photographer’s rights advocate named Carlos Miller tangled with the police in early February during the ouster of the Occupy Miami movement. Most relevant to videographers is that the police allegedly deleted the video from Miller’s camera of the somewhat benign events that ultimately led
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
As most of you know, the Canon C300 is the most talked about camera on the market. With the announcement of the Cinema EOS system, Canon is going ‘all-in’ on the high-end digital production game, especially with the C300 camera and the new Cinema EOS professional PL- and EF-mount lenses. The C300 is now on
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
Lensbaby made a name for itself in the filmmaking world when world renowned cinematographer Janusz Kaminski used a PL-mount Lensbaby to great effect on The Diving Bell and the Butterfly in which we see a skewed sense of the world from the point of view of a man who has suffered a debilitating stroke. Since
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
Here’s an interesting news release on a new series, Wolfpack Of Reseda, which fits into the ‘Monster in Suburbia’ genre. Produced by Fox Digital Studio, this new series demonstrates the growing trend of series that are bypassing broadcast and being produced just for the web. Episodes will be appearing on MySpace and then later as
Posted By Clint Milby
At the 11th Annual San Francisco SuperMeet, Justin Russo of Drobo, showed off the new Drobo B800i, 8 Bay, iSCSI SAN storage. This unit is optimized for small businesses to provide reliable and high-performance storage to servers running applications like file services, data protection, email, and server virtualization. According to Russo, Drobo has taken RAID
Posted By David Willis
Talented portrait photographer Sandro (aka Sandro Miller) was given the helm recently to introduce the video capabilities of the new Nikon D800 DSLR. You can see more about the exciting and affordable camera in our original blog post on it here, and be sure to check out upcoming issues of the magazines for further coverage.
Posted By David Willis
Irudis is offering two free license keys to the HDVP readership for the 2012 update to their Tonalizer|VFX tonality enhancement and fine-tuning plug-in. Compatible with Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Pro 7, Final Cut Pro Express and Apple Motion 4/5, the video editing software plug-in offers a unique photographic-style approach to working with video with
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
As most of you know, the Canon 5D Mark II was the DSLR that kickstarted a filmmaking revolution and changed indie filmmaking as we know it. But it’s been over 3 years since the 5D Mark II was released and it’s getting, as they say, “a little long in the tooth.” But how many of
