DreamColor from HP: an ideal tool for critical image evaluation

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After several months of waiting, I finally received a DreamColor evaluation unit from HP. Back in May of 2009, I had included the DreamColor in an article called How to connect your HD evaluation monitor to your editing system properly: Let me count the ways! That article included a comparison chart that I had made […]

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Live Sports Production: Argentina’s Boca Juniors Soccer Team

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Introduction In many countries around the world, soccer is THE national sport and it’s a source of huge national pride when teams reach the World Cup. On a local level, most large cities have one or more soccer teams, and these teams play a large part of the everyday lives of local citizens. One such […]

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The Apple Magic Mouse just got a bit more useful

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A few weeks ago I wrote a review of the new Apple Magic Mouse and using it with Final Cut Studio. There’s now a little 3rd party application called MagicPrefs that adds even more functionality to the mouse. MagicPrefs is a “free menubar application for OSX which aims to improve the functionality and configuration options […]

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Seth’s Blog: How to protect your ideas in the digital age

Seth’s Blog: How to protect your ideas in the digital age. If we’re in the idea business, how to protect those ideas? One way is to misusetrademark law. With the help of search engines, greedy lawyers who charge by the letter are busy sending claim letters to anyone who even comes close to using a […]

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Super slo-mo shows how a DSLR shutter and mirror work

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Ever wonder what exactly happens when you press that shutter release button on your DSLR camera? The following video shows the sequence of events in excruciating detail. It’s video shot at 5000 frames-per-second, looking at the internals of a Nikon D3 camera shooting 11fps continuous. As an added bonus, they show the lens stopping down […]

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How many Verizon FIOS users are in violation of new AUP?

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This is a bit off the normal video topics, but deserves some attention as we have the whole comment thing here for each article. Being a bit off-topic, it’s actually rather ironic, considering what follows…I’ll explain. It seems that Verizon has changed the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for FiOS users. And oddly, a good percentage […]

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