FOX Sports is using Sony’s F55 professional 4K camera to give television viewers a better look at close plays during the 2013 World Series. For each game, one manned F55 camera is positioned high over first base to cover all three bases and home plate.The camera signals are sent over fiber to the game production […]
Month: October 2013
Special Upgrades for Avid Editors to Mojo DX and Nitris DX hardware with Media Composer 7
Special Upgrades for Avid Editors to Mojo DX and Nitris DX hardware with Media Composer 7 Videoguys.com has just announced special upgrades for owners of any previous version of Avid Media Composer. Now you can add either the Mojo DX or Nitris DX hardware digital non-linear accelerators and upgrade to the newest version of Avid […]
Nikon: the Return of the F3
On the 6th of November, if all information is correct, Nikon will launch a new DSLR camera. To hint at what the camera is, Nikon has published some information, one video that will be a series on the next days, and opened a new space on the line up of cameras on their website. The […]
Entertainment Technology Expo Set for November 6-7 in Burbank
The 13th Annual Entertainment Technology Expo (ETE), the West Coast's premiere exposition for content creators across all fields, is set for November 6th and 7th at the Los Angeles Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel in Burbank. Sponsored by Createasphere, ETE features technology demonstrations from more than 50 leading software and hardware developers, as well as a […]
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Find Out How You Can Smoke the Competition with Free 3D Effects Templates
Autodesk recently released five free 3D effects templates created by Smoke master Brian Mulligan in Autodesk Smoke 2013 Extension 1. Each template comes as a ready-to-use Smoke archive and provides a great introduction to working with animated 3D elements, textures, reflections and 3D lighting to create motion graphics in Smoke. Video tutorials demonstrating how VFX […]
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First Look: DJI Phantom 2 Vision
DJI first introduced a prototype “shell” of the Phantom Vision back in April at NAB in their tradeshow booth, but they're finally gearing up to ship them in early November. I've had the chance to test a prototype over the past couple of weeks and am more than impressed with it's stability, maneuverability and overall […]
An Interview with the Hearts and Minds Behind Dell’s M3800
Back in July at SIGGRAPH 2013 I stopped by the Dell Whisper Suite to check out a couple of the new products that were on display and one of them was the Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation. The folks there shared some key details around what the product would eventually look like but were gearing […]
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Red Giant Films presents Run Like Hell
Stu Maschwitz and the team at Red Giant software are at it again with their newest Red Giant Films short, this time paying homage to a video game that I remember from the PS2, and I'm talking about RUN LIKE HELL, a clever film that leaves me eagerly waiting for a full length follow up. […]
Digital Asset Management Conference: Metadata Deep Dive
How do the mechanics and tools of metadata impact your work? Metadata underpins DAM with a vast array of tools and processes, and the more that you understand it, the greater opportunity for DAM success. Joseph A. Busch, Taxonomy Strategies, discussed how metadata works and what business problems are solved during this seminar. He talked […]
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Ríchard Izarra covers my book launch with his Canon XA20
Last night, Ríchard Izarra of PRODU quite unexpectedly materialized in Miami to cover my dual book launch (The Castilian Conspiracy and La conspiración del castellano) with his Canon XA20 camera, which he received recently. Ahead you’ll see a 1:53 (under 2-minute) video package which he edited and published with FCP X early this morning, before […]
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