From Canon’s Press Release: Canon today pre-announces the release of a firmware update for the multiple award-winning EOS 5D Mark II. Originally announced in late 2009, the update adds 24* and 25 frames per second (fps) recording to the camera’s EOS MOVIE video function, and will be available as a free download from the middle […]
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Tutorial: Adding Pulldown
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In an earlier tutorial, I addressed removing pulldown from 3:2 and 2:3:3:2 (24pA) sources. You can find this information all over the web pretty easily. But recently I found that I needed to ADD pulldown to a 23.98 edit to deliver it in NTSC SD. Many modern video cards like the AJA Kona 3 can […]
Read More 29.97, 3:2, Creative Cow, DG Fastchannel, HDCAM, Pulldown, TwixtorVisa Black Card Commercial – Brain Farm Digital Cinema
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Check out the 2 minute version of a kick ass commercial produced by Brain Farm Digital Cinema for Visa Black Card Brain Farm Digital Cinema website
Read MoreHyBrid Disk with SSD and spinning drive – P2 Store deja vu?
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Raidon has announced a SSD/Spinning hard drive combo called the HyBrid Disk. From Macworld: Designed to replace 3.5-inch hard drive mechanisms, users read and write files to the SSD while the hard drive mirrors the SSD contents at scheduled intervals, creating a back up of the data. Seems like an interesting concept, but I see […]
Read MorePanasonic Taking Orders for View-Master-ized P2 Camcorder
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Look at this thing! It’s a HPX171 with goggles. Panasonic has started taking reservations for this $21,000 HD 3D camcorder that’s supposed to ship this fall. They’ve also announced a full line of 3D equipment including monitors and switchers: http://pro-av.panasonic.net/en/3d/ I’ve really been surprised by the explosion of 3D this year. I don’t know if […]
Read MoreSony Announces Compact Interchangeable Lens Camera at PMA
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Following in the footsteps of Panasonic and Olympus with their Micro Four Thirds format, Sony has announced a line of compact cameras with APS-C sized sensors and interchangeable lenses. It will shoot 1080p video, which makes it direct competition to the Panasonic Lumix GF-1 and GH-1 cameras. Look at the image to see how big […]
Read MoreChanges to the Blog
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I was having dinner the other day with Tate (blog: DeathCookieEntertainment.com) and Courtney (Court, you need to get a blog!) and we were talking about our websites, what was working and what wasn’t, and about the other blogs that we read regularly. I admitted that the biggest problem I encountered was that I was using […]
Read MoreFinal Cut Rendering Glitch
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I noticed an interesting (read: incredibly annoying) glitch in Final Cut’s rendering today. I’m color correcting some commercials for Quiksilver. There’s a part where one portion of a shot cross dissolves into another. They are the same shot, but the first clip was rendered out of After Effects, and it’s cross dissolving into a clip […]
Read MoreWoah, it’s been awhile
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I just noticed that I haven’t posted to the blog in over a month. I’ve been adding to the Current Recommendations page though, so check that out. Here’s a quick rundown of what I’ve been up to lately: Ethernet SAN at Brain Farm – All 25TB are in. We’ve only been using it for a […]
Read MoreLooking for some Twits
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So it’s with much apprehension that I’ve decided to join Twitter. Twitter is probably one of the most abused silken threads of the massive web we call the Internet. I personally know a few people that post up to and over 10 times a day. And those posts run the gamut from the banal “at […]
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