I just love quick tips! It’s so much fun to see a blog post, Tweet, comment or image that gives me a little piece of editing / software knowledge that I didn’t know before. I read the tip for a minute or so, try out the tip and then it’s stuck in my brain from […]
Last year I wrote a review of various software-based waveform/vectorscopes. In that review I included my praise and criticism of Adobe OnLocation, though technically it’s a lot more than just simple wave/vector software. Since that time, Adobe has released the CS4 collection, upgrading most of their apps with significant features and – probably more importantly – […]
BoinxTV is a new product from Boinx Software Ltd. in Puchheim, Germany. You may have seen other products from Boinx, like FotoMágico, iStopMotion, iVeZeen, Mousepos©, and PhotoPresenter. BoinxTV was first launched in November 2008 and was quickly updated to 1.1 at the beginning of December. Like the infamous Video Toaster from NewTek, BoinxTV offers to […]
All of us use gain at one point or another. Positive gain saves us when we end up shooting in a dark location, and negative gain makes us feel slightly superior because we’re giving our client an image that is remarkably noise-free. But nothing is for free – you should definitely think twice before you […]
Quicktip #1 (February 1, 2009) Use that CAPS LOCK! In Final Cut Pro, when working on an edit sequence with lots of graphic layers, it can take a few seconds to render the current frame for display (especially if working in HD): Use the CAPS LOCK key to temporarily disable rendering and you can do […]
Historians of the future, citizens of the future, will find a black hole in the knowledge base of the 21st century.” Image via Wikipedia The British Library’s head says that deleting websites will make job of historians harder David Smith, technology correspondent The Observer,Sunday 25 January 2009 Historians face a “black hole” of lost material […]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The Twittersphere was a buzz with #googlemayharm news for an hour yesterday Google flagged ever site as a danger to your computer, even there own sites. SaaS has a lot to learn from this experience. Eggs in one basket springs to mind, so have a sky computing plan (cloud […]
Gotta love the DIY spirit! This enterprising coder obtained the Nikon SDK for the D700 DSLR camera, and managed to hack up a way to capture 30fps video from the Live View. Bad news is that it’s not quite 480p, and Nikon’s handling of the sensor information is less than helpful to image quality. Still, […]
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The Sony HDW-650F (US$44,950 list) is a 2/3″ 3-CCD 1080i/1080p shoulder-mount HDCAM camcorder using “Power HAD FX” CCDs, a 14-bit A/D, and a newer generation of DSP for a better image than previous HDCAM camcorders have offered. Yet it costs less, weighs less, and offers more features than the 700-series HDCAMs it succeeds. While it’s […]
