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DIT Station’s Rogue4 Ingests Footage, Processes Files, Fits in Your Overhead Bin

Despite Thunderbolt's sluggish adoption rate, it's often talked up as a revolutionary interface because it offers workstation-caliber throughput in a notebook form factor. But what does that really mean out in the field? At NAB, DIT Station showed its Rogue4 … more »

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Forthcoming Phantom Flex4K Camera Captures High-Res at 1000 FPS

Some of the biggest buzz at NAB 2013 has built around the new Phantom Flex 4K camera from Vision Research, which will have the capability of recording at up to 900 fps at full res (4096×2304) when the company releases … more »

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Mobile Labs Hit the Road with Radar Mobile Studios

Roll by the Assimilate booth (SL12705) to see the latest in high-performance vehicles. Parked next to the booth is the Radar Remote, a mobile post facility built into a Range Rover. For $795 a day, you get the Radar Remote … more »

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Shure’s LensHopper Is a New Mic Option for DSLR Shoots

Shure is showing two new camera-mount condensor microphones at its NAB booth (C2627). Under the LensHopper moniker, the VP83 and VP83F are good-looking ultra-compact mics built on Rycote Lyre shock mounts. The major difference between the two models is that … more »

ARRI Says: Don’t Believe the (4K) Hype

Before outlining the previously announced line-up of Alexa XT cameras at ARRI's NAB press conference this morning, the company's Marc Shipman-Mueller outlined the company's philosophy when it comes to image resolution. Noting that ARRI is showing footage on a Sony … more »

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Cinematographer Claudio Miranda on Oblivion and Life of Pi

Already well-known for his work with director David Fincher, including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, cinematographer Claudio Miranda saw his career reach a new peak this year with an Oscar win for Life of Pi, which he shot in stereo … more »

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Canon Targets ENG Market with Two New Cameras

Canon today announced the XA25 and XA20, a pair of inexpensive, lightweight pro camcorders aimed at news videographers and run-and-gun style shooters. Both cameras have a Canon 20x wide-angle zoom lens (26.8-576mm equivalent) with rocker control and real-time optical image … more »

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Director Adam Lisagor on the Art of the Soft Sell

When Yahoo recently acquired Summly, an iPhone app that uniquely aggregates and summarizes news from across the Web, the sale turned the app's teenaged creator Nick D'Aloisio into an instant millionaire and rising tech star. D'Aloisio launched Summly last fall … more »

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Broadcast Pix to Debut Flint Production System at NAB

Broadcast Pix is going after the low end of the live production market with Flint, a live video production system that incorporates HD streaming, file-based input, and access to cloud-based content. The Flint supports up to six cameras (HD/SD-SDI, HDMI, … more »

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JVC Announces New $2000 Shoulder-Mount GY-HM70

Pushing for more cost-effective HD acquisition, JVC today announced the GY-HM70, a shoulder-mount HD camcorder that shoots at resolutions up to 1080/60p and records AVC HD footage to dual SDHC/SDXC memory cards at up to 28 Mbps. The camera lists … more »