Camera accessory company 16x9 now offers Zoe ENG, a new version of the Zoe remote zoom control for full-size HD cameras from Bebob Engineering. The unit offers Variable Stepless Zoom Speed Control, Record Start/Stop Button, Return Function, and Reversible Zoom Direction. The results are smooth zooms and precise adjustments, regardless of speed.... »
Research and development of new high-resolution video projection systems is in high gear, with JVC and Gennum among the manufacturers making significant advancements in 4K x 2K display technology. ... »
EditShare, a provider of collaborative video editing systems, has introduced an improved version of its shared storage technology. Version 5.0 was designed to smooth and extend the workflow process in editing environments with multiple users.... »
There’s high-definition television as we know it, and then there’s super, or “ultra” HD imaging that few of us have experienced. Japanese broadcast/research organization NHK’s groundbreaking new 33-million pixel imager fits in the latter category.... »
Up until recently, hard drive recorders, which are increasingly being used on feature film sets to record high-resolution images as data, have been bulky, kludgey contraptions that necessitated a special rig with wheels to move them around. With the introduction of compact and feature-rich systems from suppliers like Codex Digital, SpectSoft and S.two, that’s about to change dramatically. These new systems free directors and DPs to move around the set more than they ever could before.... »
Big Mug Software, a provider of computer applications for the television and documentary film industries, has introduced Monitor Magic, a new tool kit that allows the simultaneous monitoring of multiple SD and HD cameras.... »
JVC has developed new firmware for its ProHD cameras that enhances the performance by increasing the gain and sensitivity, allowing pristine HD images to be captured at night. And it does so while introducing very little noise into the picture, something low-light shooters have struggled with for years.
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Location veterans know the meaning of the word flexibility. Getting that special shot often requires jerry-rigging monitors, light fixtures, microphones—just about anything in unusual positions.... »
In 2004 Canon introduced a new type of HD studio lens that it predicted would help broadcasters and video professionals make the move to HD production in a cost-effective way. It was called the Compact Studio lens and it combined the best features of large, “box-style” studio lenses in a smaller package for use with ENG-style HD cameras configured for studio use.... »
Magna Mana Production, working with JVC-Germany, has created an interesting video comparing analog versus digital video quality. Using a Convergent Design nanoConnect HDMI to HD-SDI converter, Magna Mana shot HDV (720p25) video with a JVC GY-HD251E ProHD camcorder, played it through a JVC BR-HD50 deck and captured into an HD-SDI based editing system. The analog video clip was initially captured using the HD component analog output from the deck into a popular analog-to-HD-SDI converter. The digital video clip was created by re-capturing the same footage using an HDMI output from the BR-HD50 deck into a nanoConnect, which outputs an HD-SDI signal.... »
Thanks to new tax incentives from the New York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture and Television Development, New York City is once again enjoying an increase in the number of television productions being shot in and around the five boroughs. Most of them then continue production and post in Los Angeles.... »
The first public screening here of footage from Imagica’s new Imager HSR Film Recorder unspooled in the Kodak Theatre, under the watchful eye of Makoto Tsukada, President & CEO, Imagica Technologies, Corp., along with Richard Antley, vice president of Imagica Corporation of America, and new sales manager Jim Connolly.... »
In its continuing quest to reduce the amount of cabling necessary for on set or remote production, Telecast Fiber Systems, based in Worcester, MA, has come up with a new coax-to-fiber conversion box that sits between a dual-link camera and a battery or breakout box and replaces three or four coax cables with one. This signal cable contains four hair-thin strands of fiber-optic cables.... »
