A Panaflex on a Silent Cat slider? It must be Cine Gear Expo time! Cine Gear Expo, “the film, video, and digital expo with focus”, offered the usual kid-in-a-candy-store experience, and introduced new light-emitting plasma (LEP) instruments, new cameras, and a revolutionary new electronic shuttering device that gives digital cameras better motion portrayal capabilities than […]
I was the post supervisor on the SCCE (Single Chip Camera Evaluation) for the past several months – we shot on 12 cameras (Alexa, film, F35, Red, AF100, Sony F3, Phantom Flex, Weisscam HS-2, Canon 1D MkIV, 7D, 5D Mk II, and Nikon D7000), and ran them through an extensive battery of tests – sharpness, […]
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If you’re in LA and a shooter, you should come to CineGear. And while you’re there, come see me talk about my shoot with the F3 in S-log mode shot on Leica Summilux-C lenses – perhaps the best lenses EVER. So at the tail end of NAB back in April, I ran into my friend […]
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In part one of Audition: Made for Video, I demonstrated how developing a workflow can save you time and money – when time is of the essence. We explored how to bring single clips, multiple clips, and complete sequences from Premiere Pro to Adobe Audition – with and without video. We took a look at […]
Premiere Pro: Frequently Asked Questions is a new free workshop from Videobrain and Adobe Technical Support Lead Todd Kopriva. It makes quick work of many common questions about Premiere Pro, from codecs (not the Adobe ones) to the red yellow, and green render bars and what they mean (see also his in-depth blog post on […]
I just received the very cool GoPro 3D Hero System. I first saw this gem when GoPro’s Rick Loughery showed it off a bit at NAB 2011. I have been anxiously awaiting its arrival ever since, (see the video below). I’m really excited about it because this is the first self-contained 3D system available at a […]
We geeks are pixel pushers, and we love charts and scientific testing of camera systems. It’s an essential part of understanding where the system breaks, and it informs your creative freedom on-set. That said, it is sometimes refreshing to see a comparative test from a common real-world shooting situation – working with available light. This […]
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When Adobe introduced CS4 they also introduced a new feature that many thought would be the suite’s first real killer feature: Speech Transcription. I think the fantasy might have been this: gone was the day of paying a human to transcribe footage as the machines could finally do it for us. That wasn’t the reality […]
Read More… from Adobe’s Speech Analysis is still chugging along in Premiere Pro CS5.5
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Sony’s BVM-E170 and E250. The place: Palm Springs. The time: February. The audience: a generous portion of the world’s best informed, most demanding users of professional monitors all gathered for the HPA Tech Retreat 2011. It was here that Sony chose to introduce our second-generation […]
Steve Forde, Adobe product manager for After Effects, shares a tip for object removal (roto) using the Warp Stabilizer options for Synthesize Edges as a pseudo content-aware fill in After Effects. See also Using Photoshop’s Content Aware Fill for After Effects by Luisa Winters. For older techniques see posts on the AE Portal archive. For […]
