That wide-open aperture… in full sun-light… I love it. F/2.8, and lower, gives us the feeling of intimacy and helps us achieve the “film” look. How much Neutral Density does it take to reach that look? More importantly, how much Neutral Density can one use before Infrared pollution changes the color of your blacks? SUBTLE […]
Month: April 2014
The Foundry launches MODO 801
Leading software developer The Foundry has announced the release of a brand new version of its popular 3D content creation application, MODO. In MODO 801, nearly every element of the end-to-end 3D workflow has been improved upon and tweaked in response to extensive customer feedback from a wide range of industries. This version […]
Advice and Insight Around Cinematic & Dramatic Lighting from August Bradley
August Bradley creates distinctive portraits, conceptual images, TV commercials and short films with an artistic feel and a sense of drama and mystery. As such, he’s someone who knows a thing or two about achieving dramatic lighting, and those insights are relevant to professionals no matter what sort of project they’re working on. We talked […]
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World’s First 3-Axis Hand-Held Sub-Pixel Stabilizer for Smartphones!
The world's first 3-Axis smartphone hand-held stabilizer has arrived! This is NOT just another Kickstarter campaign for a hopeful product – this is a real device designed and in production now from DSLRPros. DSLRPros 3-Axis Smartphone Stabilizer April 24, 2014 6:32 PM PDT I just confirmed with DSLRPros that the 3-Axis Smartphone Stabilizer is currently […]
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AJA converts PsF-to-progressive with new Hi5-Plus converter
At its press conference at NAB, AJA launched its new US$395 Hi5-Plus converter which —in addition to converting from SDI to HDMI— can also convert PsF to true progressive, which I love. Frequent readers know that I am extremely intrigued by this topic. I am the same guy who —so far— has published 10 chapters […]
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PVC at NAB 2014 – FCPWORKS and their demo suite
If you were watching PVC during the Monday of NAB 2014 you probably saw a series of videos posted about our visit to the FCPWORKS suite that was setup outside of the Las Vegas Convention Center. We were one of the first to take a tour of this suite dedicated to Final Cut Pro X […]
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PVC at NAB 2014 – G-Technology
I couldn’t go to NAB without stopping by G-Technology and see what’s new in their storage options. These guys will always hold a special place in my heart as there were some of the first firewire drives that I ever owned. Firewire is long in the past and Thunderbolt is their thing now. The new […]
PVC at NAB 2014 – Autodesk and the changes coming to Smoke for Mac
Autodesk was on many people’s minds at NAB 2014 as they were wanting to see the next advancement with Smoke for Mac. Autodesk didn’t make a huge feature splash with Smoke for Mac 2015 but instead announced a subscription model (yet another!). They also surprised many (and didn’t surprise others) with a new product called […]
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PVC at NAB 2014 – NewBlue FX and Titler Pro 3.0
While in the plug-in pavilion at NAB 2014 I dropped by the NewBlue FX booth to take a look at Titler Pro 3.0. This is a big update to their popular Titler Pro product that includes one very nice, very helpful thing: templates. Titler Pro 3.0 isn’t shipping yet (but you can read about it […]
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PVC at NAB 2014 – Perform at Your Peak with the D4S from Nikon
Steve Heiner talks to us about Nikon's D4S camera which is a brand new pro camera for still and multimedia photographers. It has a full compliment of HD video setting for videographers as well though. The D4S builds on the success of D4 with 30% faster image processing and substantial energy savings with enhanced noise […]
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