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  Atomos Ninja V2.0 firmware

  Published September 29, 2011 - No Comments

  The guys at Atomos continue to deliver new functionality to their breakthrough product at an unprecedented rate. Here is AtomOS Version 2.0
stepping up Ninja’s production power!

Smooth ProRes playback with cool navigation tools, multiple timecode modes, and an improved file naming ...

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  Our building

  Published May 28, 2009 - No Comments

  Until 1999 the old mill we inhabit was a printers. Interestingly they printed a lot of the material for Granada TV while I was working there! So we have Newton and Ridley beer mats and copies of the Weatherfield Gazette around. Great old character in the place, don’t you just love the pr ...

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  Atomos Ninja and HV20

  Published June 20, 2011 - No Comments

  Why did I buy the Atomos Ninja? Well as you can see from my intro on About me, I am a Yorkshireman and I like a bargain. During my time as Head of Technical Operations at Mersey TV (now Lime Pictures) we were always striving to get pictures into files as quickly as possible, time [...]

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  Grand Rapids Amazing Video

  Published May 29, 2011 - No Comments

  The city of Grand Rapids in America was accused of being a dying city and so they responded with this amazing video. Watch it in HD because there is so much going on in the background. The facebook page is here http://www.facebook.com/GRLipDub?sk=wall It was shot on a JVC camera with a ste ...

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  Want a digital Bolex?

  Published March 13, 2012 - No Comments

  What an interesting project, you can support these guys through kick starter or check them out on their website www.digitalbolex.com. Basically this gives amazing 2K RAW footage for $3000, I hope it gets made as it would really sell I am sure, it does not follow the current “I want a ...

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  What do you do with an old G5?

  Published February 25, 2012 - No Comments

  I know it is a little too soon for a spring clean but I am working on organising our kit and post setup into a more efficient operation. We are exposing the editing work we do for external clients by setting up a new web site; www.sublimepictures.tv and we are opening an operation in Liver ...

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  Red Dwarf

  Published April 16, 2009 - No Comments

  I was so excited to hear that they had made some more episodes of Red Dwarf and shot it on the Red Cam…I couldn’t wait to get them on Dave so I watched on crappy You tube! They have struggled a bit with the original chemistry and it is almost as if the timing is [...]

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  ARCHIVE

  Published January 19, 2012 - No Comments

  Here you can access the back catalogue of my musings, there will be some gems and some rubbish but rest assured there will be lots of it.

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  Magic Bullet-Plot Device and BTS video

  Published August 10, 2011 - No Comments

  I have not really used magic bullet, I think my prejudice came from the very early version that didn’t seem to give much more than other tools in Avid and Final Cut. But of course the world moves on, the film made to promote the versatility of the software is fab and as usual I [...]

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  Praise for the GH2, myths busted!

  Published September 29, 2011 - No Comments

  I really enjoyed this article on the GH2 by EOSHD anything that reassures me about my purchase is good but the myth busting is great. Andrew Reid has a great site and his ebooks on the GH2 are great value. http://www.eoshd.com/content/4279/how-the-gh2-is-still-top-dog-for-video-quality Whe ...

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