Milpitas CA – November 3, 2011 – Blackmagic Design today announced Desktop Video 9.0, a major new software update with advanced capture and playback for the Avid® Media Composer® 6 family of software including Avid Symphony® and Avid NewsCutter™, for both Windows 7™ and Mac OS X™. Desktop Video 9.0 is available for download now […]
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Canon Inc. today announced Canon’s full-fledged entry into the motion picture production industry with the launch of the Cinema EOS System. Canon’s new professional digital cinematography system spans the lens, digital video camcorder and digital SLR camera product categories. The Cinema EOS System targets a new area of imaging expression for Canon, building on the […]
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In this episode Philip & I cover a series of topics starting with large sensor cameras in production, the November 3 announcements from Canon Professional video, RED and Avid. Then on to the death of film, the cinema experience, and the problems of 3D. We’ve been predicting the demise of the Mac Pro in the […]
Jim Jannard of Red (finally) revealed their next camera – 3K for $3K is long gone – now it is 5K stills & 4K motion for a sub-$10K “brain.” It is everything you wanted in an Epic…but less. Pretty much as expected, Scarlet is Epic’s little sister. That kicks ass. Specs (pulled from here. 5K […]
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Today was the day for the Avid webcast where they announced a new version of Media Composer. Version 6 will ship on November 15 and may be one of the most important releases of Media Composer since … well version 5.0. Version 5 ushered in the big change that is the Smart Tools and caused […]
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This is the final installment of us going through our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects 5th Edition (CMG5) and pulling out a few “hidden gems” from each chapter. (Is a celebration in order?) After Effects features a variety of settings that control importing files, opening multiple compositions, previewing audio, the appearance and interactivity […]
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Today in Hollywood Canon announced their first truly professional cinema class camera – a Super35mm sized 4K sensor in a small, 3.6 lb body available with either EOS or PL mounts, recording to CF cards with an ISO range of 320 to 20,000. That is the good news. Everything else is either as expected or […]
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