It started in earnest last year and has no sign of abating. Videographers are clearly in the midst of two revolutions: tapeless recording and the use of the hybrid still/video camera (HDSLR). The tapeless future started with P2 and XDCAM, but these storage devices have been joined by other options, including Compact Flash, SD and [...]
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Tips for Small Camera and Hybrid DSLR Production
Posted in business, misc, television, workflows, tagged Canon 5D, HDSLR, media, Nikon D3s, photography, workflows on November 6, 2009 | Comments Off
Edit Suite Design, Part III
Posted in business, editing, workflows, tagged Avid, business, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, workflows on September 18, 2009 | Comments Off
Last year I wrote about designing a cost-effective HD edit suite and compared three budget ranges for both an Avid and an FCP suite. This year I’ve put together one updated spreadsheet (download here). It’s interesting to see that over the course of this past year, some of the numbers have come down and you [...]
Canon EOS 5D Mark II in the real world
Posted in Avid, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, My Projects, RED, editing, misc, workflows, tagged Avid, Canon 5D, editing, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, RED on August 15, 2009 | Comments Off
A case study on dealing with Canon 5D Mk2 footage on actual productions.
You could say that it started with Panasonic and Nikon, but it wasn’t until professional photographer Vincent Laforet posted his ground-breaking short film Reverie, that the idea of a shooting video with a DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera caught everyone’s imagination. The [...]
PluralEyes- Help for that Syncing Feeling
Posted in Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, editing, workflows, tagged editing, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, music videos, plug-ins, workflows on June 20, 2009 | Comments Off
If you’ve ever edited multi-cam shows where the production crew’s attitude seemed to have been, “Sync! We don’t need any stinkin’ sync!” – then this software is for you. Without a doubt, every editor friend I ran into at NAB that happened to pass by Singular Software’s booth raved about this product. “You have GOT [...]
Loader
Posted in Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, graphics, workflows, tagged Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, graphics, plug-ins, workflows on June 6, 2009 | Comments Off
The last 6 – 12 months have seen a bumper crop of new Final Cut plug-ins and utilities that extend its power and functionality. Quite a few have come to light since this year’s NAB. I’m going to spend the summer highlighting a number of these throughout the next series of posts.
The first isn’t really [...]
