NAB 2011 Video – Sunday Night at Sony

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Sunday night, Sony lets a few journos in to see what’s new before the doors open Monday morning. Sony’s Juan Martinez shows off some of the features of the NEX-FS100 “NXCAM Super35” camcorder, as well as a new viewfinder attachment for the PMW-F3. I also grabbed a quick pic of the dustproof / splashproof HXR-NX70 […]

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NAB 2011 – Sunday Seminars

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DP Brian Pearson wields an EPIC as RED’s Ted Schilowitz watches. On Sunday I sat in on several classes and sessions, to get a feel for the non-show-floor goings-on at NAB. Herewith, my fragmented, barely-edited notes. DP Discussion Gary Adcock leads a discussion by DPs. Gary Adcock hosted a panel of DPs—Geoff Boyle (Dark Country, […]

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After Effects CS5.5 in Production

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It’s only been a year since After Effects CS5 was released, which brought the application to 64-bit and introduced Rotobrush. With the announcement today of After Effects CS5.5 we are looking at the most rapid upgrade since Adobe unified all of its applications into one dancing,kicking line of graphical chorus girls known as the Creative […]

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Coming to NAB? Come see results of our 12 camera test Tuesday night

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Hey all – One of the (many) reasons I haven’t been writing lately has been I’ve been up to my neck in the SCCE. What’s that? The Single Chip Camera Evaluation. Zacuto started the idea and Bob Primes ASC designed and supervised all the testing. I was one of the planner/organizers, as well as post […]

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NewTek Reveals LightWave™ 10.1 Stereoscopic Camera and Interactive Production Workflow Enhancement

LAS VEGAS – NAB 2011 – April 11, 2011 – NewTek, a worldwide leader of 3D animation and video products, will showcase NewTek LightWave™ 10.1, the latest version of its Emmy® Award-winning 3D software, at NAB 2011 in Las Vegas. With advanced modeling and animation tools built to integrate into any production pipeline, LightWave 10.1 […]

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AE CS 5.5: New Creative Techniques Introduction

Chris Meyer introduces his favorite new features in AE CS 5.5 in the first of a complete training series hosted by Adobe, AE CS 5.5: New Creative Techniques Introduction. How do you spell woohoo?! I’ll skip the sexy stuff with multiple tutorial movies, and just include ETLAT here. […]

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Avid announces FCP cross-grade, other stuff at NAB

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Avid held their press event on Sunday evening of NAB at the beautiful Aria hotel. The stage was decked out in Avid purple and we heard from several Avid executives including CEO Gary Greenfield. While there weren’t many big announcements that really fit into the world we cover here at the Editblog they did announce […]

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