4K playback on a MacBook Air!
Those who have been following my blog know I am fed up waiting for a new Mac Pro with Thunderbolt. To some extent this is a block to us mid market video professionals using Thunderbolt but it is frustrating because I can see potential in the technology and I don’t want to invest in iMacs [...]
HyperDeck Shuttle 2 Released
“Time is our most valuable asset in life and business; the smart money must be on recording to a codec that meets your post requirements right away.” Well here it is, Black Magic Design seem to have cottoned on to the fact that truly uncompressed footage isn’t really a mainstream requirement [...]
Connectivity, when to upgrade?
I heard a saying once that a game changing event was when you had a change by a factor of 10. Not sure where I heard that but it seems to ring true. I had a fairly average broadband connection for a while and although I wanted to have a better one there were not [...]
GH2 gets 25P from Panasonic
The new update for GH2 firmware is out, goto the Panasonic site or use this link This is going to be a great basis for more quality hacks I am sure. For now I am going away from the old hacks and using the 25P at 24mbs to see what it is like. 25P at [...]
Broadcast Video Expo North
It is great to finally have a technical broadcast exhibition on our doorstep for a change. The big problem was that I saw so many people that I knew that I spent all the time chatting and not so much looking at the kit! In some cases it was about 20 years since I had [...]
Free Automatic Duck Software
Anyone wanting to move data between Final Cut and Avid or Avid to Final Cut or After Effects could do worse than to use the Automatic Duck software. In fact you could do much worse as it is now free! The guys are not able to support the software at the level they would wish [...]
Zacuto Shootout EP.3
For rolling shutter tests and colour nuances watch The great Zacuto shootout episode 3. One of the shocks for me was just how poor the Arri Alexa is on rolling shutter, the Phantom flex is great, anyway have a watch and see for yourself. I have an idea, how about using CCDs instead of CMOS! [...]
Final cut 7 to Final cut X exchange
Exchange FCP and FCx Not sure if this was written before the add on to FCPX allowing interchange but it is worth a look anyhow for the export to resolve. The article is on FCP.co It shows how you can convert between final cut 7 and final cut X projects by going through Resolve [...]
Variable focus (after shooting) Lytro stills camera
Well here is an interesting toy, the Lytro camera. A camera that takes stills but also stores scene depth information. The software allows you to select what is in focus after the event! Always great in the edit to have control of focus after the shot was taken eh? I wonder if you can do [...]
Great video quality on iPhone 4S
I can’t wait to get my iPhone 4S because the camera in it is fab. Apparently it is capable of 4K according to EOSHD but they use a lot of the video resolution to do camera stabilisation. Here is a video shot on it by Benjamin Dowie and there is quite a creative look in [...]
