A big update just hit the Final Cut Pro / Adobe After Effects world this week with Noise Industries FxFactory 3. This update to the popular plug-in architecture introduces not just a lot of new effects but a new interface to the actual FxFactory program. This release sees an interesting new color correction tool from […]
Day: January 12, 2012
Lytro is the new RAW?
If you aren’t familiar with Lytro, they are an innovative company that is very close to releasing a Light-Field Camera. This affordable consumer stills camera has the unique ability to calculate the angle of light hitting the sensor, and store that data along with the image data. Later, in post, you can refocus the image […]
JVC Unveils World’s First Handheld 4K Camcorder
JVC Professional Products Company, a division of JVC Americas Corp., today announced the GY-HMQ10, the world’s first handheld 4K camcorder, which captures, records, and plays video images at four times the resolution of high definition television. Powered by JVC’s Falconbrid large-scale integration (LSI) chip for high-speed signal processing and a 1/2-inch CMOS imager with 8.3 […]
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The American Society of Cinematographers Nominees
LOS ANGELES, January 11, 2012 – Guillaume Schiffman, AFC (The Artist), Jeff Cronenweth, ASC (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Robert Richardson, ASC (Hugo), Hoyte van Hoytema, FSF, NSC (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), and Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC (The Tree of Life) have been nominated in the feature film category of the 26th Annual American […]
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Emitters and Image Sequences
On this week’s MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin some fancy card tricks you can play when you create particles out of an image sequence. […]
A Look At JVC’s New 4K Camera And The Future Larger Sensor Interchangeable Lens Version
At CES JVC officially launched the GY-HMQ10 which is said to be the world’s first handheld 4K camera. A walk through the JVC booth also yielded a further surprise though, tucked away in a corner, behind glass was another 4K camera but this one had a Nikon F-Mount. This is the first time the camera […]