Can the Author Really Help? Mike Shatzkin A very experienced former book packager who has moved on to become an industry observer and critic of some note pushed back on my suggestion on Friday that authors could be involved in tagging content for contextual meaning. “Not in this lifetime,” was his comment, and he suggested […]
Day: January 16, 2009
Color Correction Tutorial #11
After a brief hiatus, my color correction tutorials are back. This tutorial is about 8 minutes long and provides a glimpse into how to use the Color FX Room in Apple’s Color. The Color FX room is very cool. It is a “nodal” or “process tree” based process where you add nodes (effects) together by […]
HDMI capture in live multi-camera production
Thanks to the new HDMI input interfaces like Blackmagic’s Intensity and Intensity Pro, it is feasible to connect certain HD cameras with HDMI output live to a computer, and even dissolve between them without genlock. Just install two Intensity (US$249 x 2) or Intensity Pro (US$349 x 2) cards into a MacPro tower computer, with […]
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eyeon Fusion Brings Max Manus to the Big Screen
Toronto: January 15, 2009 … Max Manus represents a breakthrough in Norwegian cinema, and Fusion(tm), the award-winning compositing application from eyeon Software Inc., played a key role in the success of the production. Directed by Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, Max Manus tells the story of the famous saboteur who fought the Nazis during the […]
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The Sony F35 and ND Filters
While testing the Sony F35 recently at Chater Camera I performed my usual IR test and stacked a bunch of ND filters in the matte box while shooting a sunny day exterior. The image turned bright magenta/red, and it wasn’t IR contamination because we were able to white balance the color cast away. At the […]
