Adam Elmakias, a 22-year old with a romantic, lyrical-sounding name, is an inveterate foodie – and incidentally is becoming a major player in the music photography scene world wide. There’s no doubt; this guy’s got a gift, and not just for great images. At an amazingly young age he’s mover into sensitive and prolific use […]
Month: August 2011
HowcanItieperformancetoDAMuse?
Recently, a reader explained to me how they have half of their DAM users happily using the DAM, but asked how could they get the other half to use the DAM as well? In previous posts, I discussed how a DAM solution can report on just about every aspect of the its use and users […]
Blackmagic Design Announces UltraStudio 3D With Thunderbolt Technology™ Is Now Shipping
Blackmagic Design today announced the world’s first video product with Thunderbolt technology. UltraStudio 3D which allows portable capture and playback with full resolution dual stream 3D support, 10 bit hardware architecture, dual link 3 Gb/s SDI, support for up to 1080p60 in SDI and component analog and HDMI 1.4a connections, as well as full SD, […]
Videoguys End of Summer Report
We want to let you know that Hurricane Irene came through and while she brought down a bunch of tress, everyone at Videoguys is doing fine and we didn’t have any damages to our main offices or warehouse. We are open for business as usual! Back to School! http://tinyurl.com/3gwjmw7 Did you know that Students and […]
Unboxing: FloLight’s MicroBeam 256
I recently had the opportunity to get my hands on the FloLight MicroBeam 256. This light is a fantastic light for mounting on to your camera’s shoe or where ever you want it. […]
No sweat! Video interview how to be FCC compliant with Sennheiser mics
No, you won’t get a traffic ticket from the FCC, but you will find more and more of your wireless mic transmissions stepped on by content from new owners of the bandwidth, or even white noise that is strategically put there to prevent your usage: Signal squashing. If you’re like us and many independent videographers […]
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Where did my PICT go?
You may be surprised to find that images you used in your Motion 4 projects no longer appear in your Motion 5 projects. Or, when you look for images in Motion 5’s File Browser that you KNOW are there, they just don’t appear. Well, it’s likely that those images were saved with the PICT format […]
CMG Hidden Gems: Chapter 37 – Expressions
We’re going through our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects 5th Edition (CMG5) and pulling out a few “hidden gems” from each chapter. These will include essential advice for new users, plus timesaving tips that experienced users may not be aware of. Creating expressions – the ability to tell one parameter to follow another, […]
ATTO Technology Announces Certification for vSphere® 5
ATTO Technology, Inc., today announced its Celerity line of 8Gb/s Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) support of VMware’s vSphere® 5 cloud operating system. vSphere is VMware’s latest cloud operating system and is available for both small and mid-size businesses as well as enterprise-class users. It helps manage both virtualized software and hardware applications and […]
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New Sachtler Telescopic TT 75/2 CF Lightweight Tripod
Sachtler, a Vitec Group brand, introduces a new lightweight 2-stage carbon fiber tripod ideally suited for HDV and video enabled DSLR cameras. The TT 75/2 CF features a 75mm bowl and 3-section single carbon fiber tubes. This fully-professional support offers Sachtler’s hallmark stability and easy setup. Varying leg angles can be quickly deployed and adjusted. […]
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