Q&A: John McDougall, Producer/DP
05|20|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Shot mostly handheld with two JVC GY-HD250U HD camcorders, the movie features an impressive cast and a crazy plot about doing what it takes to become U.S. president.... »
Schneider Intros Classic Soft Filters for High-Definition Video
05|20|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Schneider Optics has introduced HD Classic Soft filters, created in response to requests for better softening filters for small-format high-definition camcorders.... »
HPVIDEO Offers New Video-Assist Briefcase
05|20|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
HPVIDEO, a maker of motion-picture production equipment, has incorporated Fast Forward Video’s board-level Recon DVR board-level digital video recorder (DVR) into its new Briefcase portable video playback system.... »
Panavision Seminar Proposes New Parameters for Selecting HD Cameras
05|20|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
When trying to select the right camera for your next project, perhaps it’s time to throw out all of the specs about pixel counts and instead look at the difference between optical sampling from the camera’s imagers (where resolution is totally determined) and its digital sampling.... »
New JPEG 2000 Conversion Software for Thomson Grass Valley Infinity Camera
05|20|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
CineForm has developed a new plug-in for a real-time post-production workflow for the Thomson Grass Valley Infinity Digital Media Camcorder that preserves the 10-bit precision of the camera’s recorded JPEG2000 files.... »
Sony Unveils New Multi-codec Blu-Ray Encoder
05|07|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Sony has a new fast and cost-effective solution for Blu-ray Disc encoding. The BAE-VX1000 multi-codec video encoder provides real-time processing of MPEG-2 or H.264/AVC primary and secondary video streams suitable for the Blu-ray Disc (BD) format.... »
Anton/Bauer Raises the Power for Digital Cinema Production
05|07|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Anton/Bauer has expanded its line of battery power products to include the CINE-VCLX and new VCLX/2 products, which offer dual simultaneous output voltages and a high-wattage performance level suitable for digital cinema production.... »
Doremi Intros the GHX-10 Cross-Converter
05|07|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Doremi Labs has introduced the GHX-10, an HD video cross converter that features HDMI, DVI, and SDI connectors that allow for any input to be converted to any output format or scan rate.... »
Imagine Gets Data Off SxS Cards Fast with ShotPut EXpress
05|07|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Imagine Products now offers ShotPut EXpress, an automated offload application for EX SxS cards used with Sony’s XDCAM HD EX cameras. It’s available for both Macintosh and Windows computers.... »
Retrofitting CompactFlash Recording on the Camera
05|07|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
The declining price of CompactFlash storage components and sleek new product designs saw the advent at this year’s NAB of several camera-mounted tapeless recording units not possible even three years ago.... »
Q&A: Benjamin Cook, sound effects editor/mixer
05|06|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Cook used the Holophone H3-D Surround microphone for on-location sound effects work in remote parts of Australia. The H3-D provides 3-D surround audio via six discrete channels from a single unit with no external mixing or signal manipulation needed.... »
Q&A: Jimmy Hanks, Director/Actor/Filmmaker
04|22|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Not one to stand on ceremony, Jimmy Hanks is constantly involved in a number of projects—from small independent features to big-budget productions—and says that the new generation of compact HD cameras from Canon helps him affordably bring ideas to the screen. “There’s no reason not to use these cameras,” he said. “Instead of sitting around, people should be out shooting.”... »
New Lenses Bring Full Spectrum of HD Into View
04|22|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
It was a big year for ENG and field lenses at NAB, with some models getting lighter, some sharper and others more data intensive then ever before.... »
Server-Based Editing for Maximum Throughput
04|22|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
At NAB a company called Maximum Throughput, known for its Sledgehammer network storage arrays, showed a server-based workgroup editing solution called MAXedit Server Edition that allows small broadcasters to cost-effectively set-up multi-seat HD/SD editing workgroups. While the software is no substitute for an Avid, Quantel or Thomson workgroup solution—as Giovanni Tagliamonti, the company’s chief executive officer will quickly tell you—it does allow someone to use standard laptops and desktop PCs to handle frame-accurate editing of compressed or uncompressed multi-resolution content.... »
HD Cameras Everywhere, For Everyone
04|22|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
As of NAB 2008, we’ve reached the milestone at which cameras can now be considered high-definition without having to belabor the point. HD acquisition is no longer a luxury; it’s a necessary cost of doing business.... »
- Keisoku Giken Offers Uncompressed Recording in Stereo
- Panasonic Makes the HPX300 a Studio Camera
- The Foundry Releases RollingShutter Plug-in for CMOS Artifacts
- Envivio Knocks HD IPTV Bitrate Requirements Below 6 Mbps
- TPMGEnc Adds 1080p DivX Support
- NetBlender Adds AVC Encoding to Blu-ray Authoring Package
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