Blackmagic Design Acquires Assets of Cintel International

Blackmagic Design Acquires Assets of Cintel International 2

Blackmagic Design today announced the acquisition of the assets of Cintel International, one of the world’s leading researchers, designers and manufacturers of motion picture film scanners. Through this acquisition, following the liquidation of Cintel International earlier in 2012, Blackmagic Design has acquired the intellectual property and all aspects of Cintel’s entire portfolio of film scanning […]

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Quick Review: Canon C300 Super35mm LSS Cine Camera

Quick Review: Canon C300 Super35mm LSS Cine Camera 3

Canon C300 EF with Canon 24-105mm f/4 EF-L IS zoom. The US$16,000 Canon EOS C300 looks like nothing else, and works like it, too: its ergonomics, controls, and menus are rules unto themselves. It’s a fearless re-imagining of how a large-single-sensor camera should be designed, held, and operated, but it doesn’t hurt that the C300 […]

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ClipWrap version 2.5.2 adds conforming and other new features

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USA-based developer divergent media (which prefers that we write their name in all lower case) just released a update to their ClipWrap application, about which I published a complete review back in November 2011. The new palindromic version is 2.5.2 and includes conforming (i.e. to create natural 2.5x slow motion by conforming AVCHD 1080/59.94p to […]

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Volumetric light rays in After Effects

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Volumetric lighting, Crepuscular rays, God rays, and the like are visible rays or even globes of light. You can’t see lights themselves with the built-in lighting in After Effects (for background see Cameras, lights, and points of interest), so plug-ins are used to help make light visible. […]

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AJA KONA Thunderbolt™ Drivers Offer Compatibility with Sonnet’s Thunderbolt Expansion Products

AJA Video Systems announced the compatibility of its KONA family of professional video solutions with Sonnet Technologies Inc.’s family of PCIe Thunderbolt™ expansion chassis. The joint effort allows video professionals to simultaneously tap the processing power and flexible conversion capability of AJA KONA hardware, and the enhanced computer performance and connectivity of the Sonnet expansion […]

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