Panasonic Announces Delivery, Pricing of AG-HPX600 P2 HD Shoulder-Mount

Panasonic Announces Delivery, Pricing of AG-HPX600 P2 HD Shoulder-Mount 1

Panasonic announced today that its new AG-HPX600 P2 HD shoulder-mount camcorder with 10-bit, 4:2:2 AVC-Intra recording will deliver this month at a suggested list price of The AG-HPX600 combines high cost-performance, easy operation, breakthrough expandability and a future- proof design to meet needs in a wide range of uses, from image production to broadcasting and […]

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Kodak Names 2012 Student Scholarship Winners

The winners of the 2012 KODAK Student Scholarship Awards and KODAK Student Cinematography Scholarship Awards have been selected by a panel of judges led by award-winning cinematographer John Bailey, ASC. This year’s recipients hail from the United States, UK, Germany and Singapore. Kodak’s annual, international competition is designed to recognize superior filmmaking skills and creativity […]

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Rapid Progression in Filmmaking Tech Mirrors Leap for Emerging Cinematographer Awards Honorees

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Another year, another giant leap in progression for the industry’s most prestigious event devoted exclusively to up-and-coming cinematographers. New digital camera technologies, along with traditional film emulsions, were used to produce what ECA Chairman Jim Matlosz calls “the most challenging year yet for our selection committee, due to the extremely high quality of work.” The […]

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“A Liar’s Autobiography” Filmmakers Switch to All Adobe Workflow for Tribute to Monty Python Member

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Justin Weyers faced a challenge: help create an animated movie that integrates the work of 14 animation studios into a holistic 3D stereographic film, to celebrate the life and multifaceted career of deceased Monty Python member Graham Chapman. Weyers is co-founder and director for multi-disciplinary creative agency Made Visual Studio. Switching to an all Adobe […]

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Blackmagic Design Announces UltraStudio 4K with Thunderbolt Technology

Blackmagic Design today announced UltraStudio 4K, an attractively designed rack mount capture and playback device based on Thunderbolt™ technology developed by Intel® with collaboration from Apple®. UltraStudio 4K features full resolution 4K support, dual stream 3D capture/playback, 10bit hardware architecture, dual link 3 Gb/s SDI, support for up to 1080p60 in SDI,component analog and HDMI […]

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AJA Announces Corvid Ultra, Multi-Format I/O Supporting 2K, 4K Workflows and Scaling

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AJA Video Systems today announced Corvid Ultra, the latest product in AJA’s Corvid family of OEM technologies, delivering superior I/O, processing and scaling for complex, multi-format 4K/2K and HD/Dual-link/SD workflows. Corvid Ultra is part of AJA’s OEM program available to partners to incorporate into software applications or hardware systems to facilitate high-bandwidth / high frame […]

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The Foundry Announces NUKE 7.0 at IBC 2012

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Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry is pleased to announce NUKE 7.0, a revolutionary version of its industry leading compositor. The highly anticipated release of NUKE 7.0 is packed with a wide range of new features and substantial improvements. The updated version will be available to purchase this Autumn. Based on feedback from NUKE’s […]

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Digital Vision and MTI Film form Strategic Partnership

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Digital Vision and MTI Film have formed a strategic technology partnership to develop a new digital dailies software solution, built upon Digital Vision’s Nucoda colour grading system and the MTI’s Cortex::ControlDailies solution. Introduced this morning at IBC in Amsterdam, the announcement marks the development of a previously unavailable dailies product in the marketplace, built upon […]

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JuicedLink takes our dynamic mic challenge even further, to a full range of audio tests

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Back in July, I published JuicedLink video illustrates audio quality with DSLRs via RiggyAssist versus an H4n recorder. After that, I asked Robert Rozak from JuicedLink to repeat his test using a dynamic microphone, since that way both preamps (the one in the H4n and the one in the Riggy-Assist from JuicedLink would need to […]

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AJA T-TAP™ for Thunderbolt™-enabled Workflows Now Available

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AJA Video Systems today announced that T-TAP™, its compact, lightweight HD-SDI and HDMI Thunderbolt™-powered video device launched at NAB, is now shipping. AJA’s T-TAP allows video professionals to leverage the power of Thunderbolt to deliver high-quality video and embedded audio output from any compatible Mac system. T-TAP’s simple, single Thunderbolt cable connectivity for both power […]

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