If you thought that there were more than enough tapeless recording devices already on the market by Focus Enhancements, Edirol and Convergent Designs, you would only be partially right. The AJA Ki Pro sparked a lot of enthusiasm at NAB 2009. While it clearly offers cameramen many benefits, it also provides some opportunities for the [...]
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AJA Ki Pro
Posted in Final Cut Pro, editing, misc, video, tagged AJA, editing, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, video on October 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Blackmagic Design UltraScope
Posted in media, misc, television, video, tagged television, video on October 24, 2009 | Comments Off
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 [...]
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 [...]
RED Post – the Easy Way
Posted in Avid, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, My Projects, RED, color grading, editing, film student, video, tagged Avid, color grading, editing, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, RED, workflows on March 28, 2009 | Comments Off
A commercial case study
Ever since the RED Digital Cinema Camera Company started to ship its innovative RED One camera, producers have been challenged with the best way to post produce its footage. Detractors have slammed RED for a supposed lack of post workflows. This is in wrong, since there are a number of solid ways [...]
