A 19-day shoot covering more than 35,000 miles requires a very special type of camera. For me that was the FS7 and its servo zoom E-Mount lens (FE PZ 28-135mm F4 G OSS – SELP28135G), which I put through their paces in some very challenging conditions. I was shooting a documentary on pediatric tuberculosis for […]
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Launched at the end of April and running until the end of May, the Camlet Mount campaign is for a project that may interest all those videographers using a DSLR but aspiring to have a bigger and affordable monitor to control images: Camlet Mount lets you use your tablet or smartphone. The people behind Camlet […]
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More than a few experts labeled 2014 as the “year of the breach”, and a list of all the companies that experienced security issues last year would be an entire article itself. Massive organizations are the ones that get the headlines when they experience a security issue, but companies that are infinitely smaller are just […]
With another NAB in the books it’s time to take a look back on what we saw, where we were and what we might remember from the show. Overall it didn’t feel like a big revolution-in-the-making for any one company, product or format. There weren’t any huge surprises but rather more of the expected. The […]
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In this episode of Motion Magic, I demonstrate one way of integrating floating 3D text into a scene using Motion. The same results could be accomplished in Final Cut Pro X. Because the text is floating in the air rather than sitting on a surface, I take the approach of manually judging perspective to match […]
I know several happy users of the Sony PXW-X70 1080p 4:2:2/10-bit camcorder, with its promising 4K Ultra HD future. Those who edit with Final Cut Pro X already had two lingering reasons to consider purchasing a recorder/monitor, be it a Shogun from Átomos, PIX-E5 from VideoDevices, or even an Odyssey7Q from Convergent Design. At NAB […]
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Lily’s first prototype, built by Henry Bradlow and Antoine Balaresque in September 2013, used a Raspberry Pi and an Ardiuno. It was enough to convince investors, and in the Spring of 2014 Shana Fisher and SV Angel made Lily real. For Lily to become more than a prototype, Rob Englin gave it a heart, Rowland […]
