NAB 2009 Video – ASL Rip Kit and UniQ PL Lenses

Air Sea Land was showing off their Rip Kit at NAB, a unique solution that solves connectivity and I/O issues with the Red One, and extends it’s capabilities with a remote breakout box for video and audio I/O. They also talked about their T-Bag splash bag. Very cool stuff. Also near the Air Sea Land […]

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Tip: Play Anything – YouTube included – in QuickTime Mac with Perian

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The QuickTime file format can be the cause of trouble in a production pipeline, with its moving-target gamma and all-or-nothing file integrity (if there’s one corrupted frame in an .mov, forget about opening it and recovering the rest). QuickTime Player Pro, however, has many great features missing from other standalone players (including the fantastic VLC); […]

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NAB 2009 Video – AJA Ki Pro and Io Express

Prior to day one at NAB, there was a ton of pre-show buzz about AJA’s new Ki Pro unit, a unique solid-state + hard disk capture device that also serves as an I/O box for camcorders of all flavors and formats. The online community was also buzzing about the Io Express, the younger sibling of […]

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A whole mess of Apple Pro App technical documents updated

I awoke this morning to find a lot of RSS updates to a number of Apple articles regarding a number of different Pro Apps: Final Cut Pro/Express: Some imported PSD files may only contain the background layerUsing FireWire 400 peripherals with multimedia applications and FireWire 800 portsMotion: Motion quits unexpectedly when exporting to REDCODE (The […]

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NAB 2009 – The Foundry Demos 3 Upcoming Versions of Nuke

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At a private demo on Wednesday, Matt Plec demonstrated several of the major new features that will be in Nuke 5.2 and 6, as well as the new NukeX. Here’s what I learned. Version 5.2 Nuke 5.2 has a few major features for a dot-release, including the first one listed here, which I wish were […]

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