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.... »
FMX is Europe’s most important gathering of VFX and animation people. Folks from every part of the globe descend upon Stuttgart each year in early May to share ideas, techniques and their stories. ... »
At NAB Ikegami teamed up with Toshiba to announce the next step in its quest to get shooters off tape and into the edit suite as quickly as possible. The companies signed a collaboration agreement earlier this month in Tokyo.
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This year’s NAB show could be known as the first year LCD technology was seriously considered as a replacement for high-definition CRT monitors for critical preview, color correction and editing. LCD monitors offer the advantages of lower weight, lower power consumption, and reduced heat generation.... »
AJA introduces the Io HD—natively supporting Apple’s new ProRes 422 format—allowing 10-bit, 4:2:2 full-resolution HD editing on the MacBook Pro and Mac Pro.... »
Telestream, the leading global provider of encoding-based media workflow solutions, today announced major enhancements for its flagship FlipFactory® workflow automation product line. ... »
Sony offers NAB attendees an advanced look at its upcoming XDCAM EX unit, which uses flash memory technology—the higher speed and smaller form factor SanDisk SxS cards.... »
The RED Digital Cinema tent is much bigger this year and the crowds are enormous!
In the midst of the stampede to get to the RED booth at 9:am, I had the chance to sit down with Ted Schilowitz of RED and get the lowdown on the other RED “scoops” not covered in my RED @ NAB, Part 1 article…and they are eye-openers indeed:
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This morning RED Digital Cinema Company rolled out their newly completed RED One camera system, a new line of Super 35mm cine lenses, and projected 4k footage shot with the RED camera by Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson... »
Marvin Hall said the industry is developing hardware and software specifically to comply with DCI 1.0 requirements, but complained that the spec “only addresses the needs of those who wrote it” – not the post facilities that have to work with a myriad of delivered formats on a case-by-case basis.... »
