Editor's Choice | HD/Studio

Director Lynne Ramsay on Photography, Filming Novels, and Europeans in the U.S.

01|12|2012 – By Steve Erickson

Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin is an unconventional look at American violence. The first 20 minutes of the film are a radically nightmarish montage. While the rest of We Need to Talk About Kevin is somewhat more conventional, it never loses its dreamlike feel, enhanced by a combination of 35mm and Canon 5D Mark II DSLR video.... »

Cinematographer Francis Kenny on Justified

02|09|2011 – By Bryant Frazer

“I rarely talk to actors, because I don’t want to interfere with their performances,” says cinematographer Francis Kenny, ASC. “I know them, I like them, and sometimes we joke around. But not during the actual shooting.”... »

Sony Introduces XDCAM PMW-500, Recording 4:2:2 HD to SxS Memory Cards

09|10|2010 – By Bryant Frazer

Sony's new XDCAM PMW-500 records either MXF or MP4 files to SxS solid-state memory cards. The camcorder is Sony's only memory-based shoulder-mount camera that records 4:2:2 HD video at 50 Mb/s.... »

Canon Builds Stereo-Alignment Features Into Newest Camcorders

08|31|2010 – By Bryant Frazer

On the eve of its Canon Expo event at Javits Center in New York, Canon announced two new camcorders, the XF105 and XF100, that it said would allow for "easy" 3D video capture when paired on a 3D rig. Both cameras also have infrared image-capture built in for shooting in the dark.... »

Image Metrics Makes a Human Hybrid for Splice

06|11|2010 – By Bryant Frazer

Splice, the new biohorror movie from director Vincenzo Natali, is a 21st century update of the Frankenstein story. Putting life-creating power in the hands of two callow geniuses (played by Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley), it explores what happens when scientists lose control of a living experiment that they have a too-personal interest in. Their creation is Dren, a not-exactly-human little girl who grows up very quickly.... »

Gone Phishin' with CineForm Neo3D

05|26|2010 – By Bryant Frazer

As an early user of CineForm’s Neo3D editing workflow, Don Wilson was one of the guinea pigs who helped CineForm make Apple’s Final Cut Pro stereo-friendly. F&V talked to him about his career, his stereo workflow, and why he thinks cutting concerts in 3D is actually easier.... »

**How the AJA Ki Pro Took Repossessed Tapeless**

03|30|2010 – By Bryant Frazer

Now that the AJA Ki Pro boxes have been in the field for a while, users are stress-testing them. One of those early users is Bradley Levin, director of the National Geographic Channel documentary series Repossessed.... »

Tapeless Workflows and Gigabit Ethernet at Crawford Communications

11|05|2009 – By Bryant Frazer

“The challenge is that each client wants to feel special,” says Ron Heidt, a senior editor and HD specialist at Crawford Communications in Atlanta, GA. He’s talking not only about the range of projects that find their home at Crawford — commercials, corporate marketing, independent filmmaking, episodic television — but about the technological demands different clients make on a facility that handles telecine, graphics, 3D, creative editorial, online conform, audio and Blu-ray all in one place.... »

Quantel First in the World to Release RED Rocket Support

10|23|2009 – Press Release

Quantel has just released a new version of software for its eQ, iQ and Pablo systems which, among a number of other useful new features, also includes support for the RED Rocket accelerator board.... »

**Making Glee Sing on Fox**

10|22|2009 – By Dan Daley

Glee has a split personality, says supervising sound editor John Benson, who spots the show at Technicolor Sound Services with co-supervising sound editor Gary Megregian and producer Alexis Martin. “The show is a constant contrast between the fantasy of the musical performances and the reality of a high-school drama,” he explains, emphasizing that the two never overlap. That makes the transitions from reality to fantasy and back as critical to the show’s audio as the music itself.... »

Offhollywood Expands to Support Red Production as Well as Post

09|10|2009 – By Bryant Frazer

Offhollywood made a play for the New York market in a big way last month, when it expanded its operations to include a full-fledged camera rental and service facility dedicated to the Red Digital Cinema Camera.... »

The Foundry Releases RollingShutter Plug-in for CMOS Artifacts

08|25|2009 – By Bryant Frazer

The Foundry's New RollingShutter plug-in is a $500 tool that helps straighten out your CMOS footage.... »

NetBlender Adds AVC Encoding to Blu-ray Authoring Package

08|25|2009 – By Bryant Frazer

NetBlender is shipping the DoStudio Workflow Edition (DSW), a significant upgrade that adds integrated Blu-ray-compliant AVC encoding.... »

TPMGEnc Adds 1080p DivX Support

08|25|2009 – By Bryant Frazer

Pegasys updated its popular and inexpensive video transcoding software, TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress ($99.95), by adding 1080p DivX HD support. The upgrade is free to users already running version 4.0; upgrades from v3.0 are $59.95.... »

Panasonic Makes the HPX300 a Studio Camera

08|25|2009 – By Bryant Frazer

Following up on a promise made when it announced the $10,700 AG-HPX300 P2 camcorder in February of this year, Panasonic last week revealed details of its new Camcorder Studio System, which is slated to ship in October in several configurations that make the HPX300 and other P2 HD and DVCPRO HD camcorders studio-ready, starting at $9,900.... »

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