Hey all – just a quick note to let you know I’ll be at the NAB show – today is Saturday, and I’m just sitting down at the Digital Cinema Summit to take notes on…whatever they are going to talk about next. I’ll be bouncing between this and the Digital Tech Guru panels today/tomorrow, with […]
Day: April 12, 2008
Find me at NAB, part 2
I just received my April copy of HD Video Pro magazine, and there on page 54 is my write-up of Element Labs LED lighting technology for the film industry. When I’m not writing here, or shooting somewhere, I’m writing for HD Video Pro. It’s turning out to be a great magazine, and I’m quite pleased […]
Locking HDMI cables!
Left: normal HDMI cable. Right: locking HDMI cable. Note the cantilevered paddle with two tiny retention hooks. A colleague and I were discussing the sorry state of the physical HDMI connection; we call it a “self ejecting” technology. HDMI cables fall out of HDMI sockets with surprising ease. Fortunately there’s now a solution to this […]
Find Me at NAB
For a bit over a year now I’ve been consulting on a new broad-spectrum LED light for the motion picture industry. The idea is that this light, with six different LEDs, can change color temperate with a simple turn of a knob and dim without changing color temperature. The spectrum on this light is much […]
Red “Mythbusting” Video
RED / RED Mythbusters Ted Schilowitz sat down with Michael from Plaster City and did some mythbusting, to show that: 1.) You can play back on a Mac straight from the footage from camera2.) You can drop that footage straight into Final Cut Pro3.) You can play it back in Final Cut Pro without transcoding, […]