Blackmagic Design’s UltraScope gained a lot of buzz at NAB 2009. In a time when fewer facilities are spending precious budget dollars on high-end video and technical monitors, the UltraScope seems to fit the bill for a high-quality, but low-cost waveform monitor and vectorscope. It doesn’t answer all needs, but if you are interested in [...]
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Blackmagic Design UltraScope
Posted in media, misc, television, video, tagged television, video on October 24, 2009 | Comments Off
NAB 2009 – 10 goodies you might have missed
Posted in business, editing, graphics, media, video, tagged editing, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, graphics, NAB, video on April 26, 2009 | Comments Off
By now you’ve probably caught up on all big announcements from NAB 2009. If not, then hop over to Videography or DV for the NAB coverage supplied by my colleagues and me during our blogs and wrap-up stories for the magazine. In this post I’d like to focus on 10 relatively inexpensive items that will [...]
What’s wrong with this picture?
Posted in film student, media, misc, television, video, tagged media, television, video on April 16, 2009 | Comments Off
“May you live in interesting times” is said to be an ancient Chinese curse. That certainly describes modern times, but no more so than in the video world. We are at the intersection of numerous transitions: analog to digital broadcast; SD to HD; CRTs to LCD and plasma displays; and tape-based to file-based acquisition and [...]
IllumiNations 2000: Reflections of Earth
Posted in Avid, My Projects, editing, media, special venues, tagged Avid, Disney, editing, EPCOT, IllumiNations, Reflections of Earth on November 28, 2008 | Comments Off
One of the coolest projects I’ve ever worked on is about to enter its tenth year. In 2009, the nighttime lagoon show at Walt Disney World’s EPCOT theme park enters what may well be its last year in this current version. Many theme park attractions are refreshed or changed periodically and I suspect that, the [...]
Adobe Creative Suite 4 – A First Look
Posted in editing, graphics, media, misc, video, tagged Adobe, editing, media, video on September 27, 2008 | Comments Off
Hot on the heals of last year’s huge Adobe software release, the company has quickly turned around another batch of impressive updates in its new Creative Suite 4 line-up. Once again, these products can be purchased individually or as part of various collections for web, video and print. Plus the all-in-one Master Collection. All CS4 [...]
