Digital Juice®, the highly acclaimed developer of digital content and professional camera gear and accessories, today announced the release of the Orbit Junior portable dolly system for video-capable cameras. The device allows users to capture smooth curved or straight professional low-angle or tabletop tracking shots on any smooth surface — without the hassle of larger, […]
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The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) announced today that Bob Schieffer, renowned broadcast television journalist for CBS, will receive the NAB Distinguished Service Award (DSA) during the 2013 NAB Show. Schieffer will accept the award at the opening keynote session, sponsored by Blackmagic Design, on April 8 in Las Vegas. “For more than 50 years, […]
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The HPA Tech Retreat, a sold-out event that attracts the industry’s top technologists, visionaries and creators to exchange information, ideas and cutting-edge information, completed a second day of top-tier knowledge-sharing at the Hyatt Regency Indian Wells in Indian Wells, California (Palm Springs area). Highlights for today's agenda include the popular Breakfast Roundtables, a look […]
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The Tech Retreat is an annual four-day conference (plus Monday bonus session) for HD / Video / cinema geeks, sponsored by the Hollywood Post Alliance. The program for this year's show is online at http://www.hpaonline.com/2013-program and the opening “Super-sized Session” was on “More, Bigger, but Better?” Herewith, my transcribed-as-it-happened notes from today's session; please excuse […]
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We’ve been desktop video users since December 1991 when QuickTime 1.0 and the first version of Adobe Premiere shipped. At the time, the results were mostly heavily compressed, low frame rate, postage stamp sized video, but we had faith it would scale up. In late 1992, we started beta testing “Egg” (now know as After […]
It is good that OS X can now offer proper spatial resolution for HDTV monitors at 720p and 1080p on the Mac’s native GPU outputs. It is also good that OS X’s Display Control Panel allows setting the output for different framerates (i.e. 24, 50, or 60), according to the capabilities of the connected monitor. […]
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Since Apple released Final Cut Pro X in June 2011, there have been seven updates and many valuable features have been added. Although FCP X fortunately achieved partial compatibility with professional audio/video interfaces as of version 10.0.4, we are now at version 10.0.7 and it still handles those devices haphazardly. I am not talking about […]
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Every editor at some point needs to get a still image out of their editing application: to email a sample frame to a client, to create a representative shot for a website, or to import into an image editing application for further manipulation. This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows […]
