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| 09|06|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer
Cinematographer Justin Talley took a wait and see approach to his job on the forthcoming indie film Somewhere Slow, now in production, finally settling on the attractively priced Sony NEX-FS100 as the best combination of performance and ergonomics for the film's needs.... »
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| 07|22|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer and Beth Marchant
Still frustrated by the introduction of Final Cut Pro X? Baffled by the trackless timeline? Flummoxed by the lack of support for XML and EDLs? Irritated by the missing pro features? Evan Schechtman feels your pain. The founder of Outpost Digital and CTO of @Radical Media in New York doesn't think FCPX is ready for prime time, either. But if the widely perceived failings of FCPX are making you consider abandoning Final Cut completely as an editorial platform, he has some advice: "Everybody just breathe. Just chill."... »
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| 06|27|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer
Director Klaus Obermeyer’s Aero Film gets impossible helicopter shots with something called the Klaus Cam — just a three-axis, hyro-stabilized head hanging low on a cable beneath a helicopter.... »
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| 06|07|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer
The new availability of inexpensive but high-end color grading options is also having an effect on set, where savvy productions are using portable versions of the Resolve to set new looks during production without relying on the use of LUTs farther down the pipeline.... »
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| 04|13|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer
To Light Iron Digital CEO Michael Cioni, that iPad you're carrying around is more than a tablet computer. If Light Iron's new LiVE PLAY application takes off, the iPad and devices like it could become the ultimate in next-generation technology — extremely portable, almost absurdly high-quality devices for screening and sharing footage as it's shot.... »
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| 01|13|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer
In November, Imagineer Systems announced that it was combining its range of software tools into a single product, Mocha Pro, which boasted a new interface and 64-bit processing power along with a new price point — $1495 for a single node-locked license. StudioDaily asked CMO Ross Shain to explain the shift in strategy.... »
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| 11|09|2010 |
By Bryant Frazer
StudioDaily shot a few quick questions via email to Ellen Wixted, Adobe's principal product marketing manager for professional video solutions, to get a little more info on what Audition can do for you.... »
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| 10|19|2010 |
By Bryant Frazer
The team behind 127 Hours contacted HD Camera Rentals in Los Angeles not long after the company figured out how to strap an SI-2K POV camera — and a CineDeck recorder — onto an Olympic skier performing a 120-meter jump in an AT&T Winter Olympics 2010 spot.... »
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| 08|11|2010 |
By Bryant Frazer
If you were at SIGGRAPH last month, you may have wondered just what was up with the mechanical bull-riding contests being run out of the back of the exhibit hall. Turns out that was just Fusion-io trying to get the attention of the VFX-and-animation market. The company makes drives based on solid-state NAND flash memory — a memory technology that's similar to RAM, but non-volatile. It's also a little bit slower than RAM, but it runs cooler and is cheaper, meaning that it can be deployed in much higher quantities, the company says.... »
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| 08|11|2010 |
By Bryant Frazer
up its OneFS storage operating system by launching two new data-management applications that can transform the way a facility organizes and oversees its networked storage.... »
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