Jim Geduldick, GoPro’s Cinema, Broadcast & Photo Marketing Manager explains the new GoPro OMNI spherical camera rig and the GoPro 360 video content server platform: (Don’t forget to watch the 360° video using the Google Chrome browser at the highest resolution you can – ideally 4K 2160s. If it doesn’t run smoothly at 2160s come […]
Cloud editing had been a buzzword for a few years at NAB and this year was no exception. While there’s often the mention of cloud editing in a big keynote like that from Avid there are other small booths around the NAB show floor that specialize in cloud editing. As a single freelance editor I […]
Read More… from NAB 2016 – Forscene and their Cloud-based Video Production Platform
This week on MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training one method for creating flickering neon lights in Motion. The technique I use centers around using the 3D text capabilities of Motion. I start with a font that mimics the look of neon-shaped letters, then I use a 3D text object for the […]
One of the highlights of my NAB show has been sitting down in the giant glass “fishbowl” in the Central hall to participate in the Teradak Live Show live stream. For the second year I have hosted on of the PVC sessions and I’ve been able to chat with industry folks who are a lot […]
Read More… from NAB 2016 Teradek Live Show PVC Panel – Where We Are Now
Compact Servo Zoom Canon’s new Compact-Servo zoom 18-80mm T4.4 EF-mount lens is smaller than a 70-200mm L lens and weights only 2.7 lbs. If you’re a C300 or C100 shooter I think Canon designed this lens specifically with you in mind. This lens is for shooters moving up from EF Still Lenses but aren’t fulling […]
Read More… from PVC Talks To Canon About 18-80mm Compact-Servo Lens: NAB 2016
The new monitors from BenQ for video professionals promise to offer uncompromising color accuracy and high resolution, up to 4K UHD on the first and QHD on the second. With the PV3200PT reference BenQ presents its first monitor designed specifically with video post-production engineers in mind. According to the company, this wide-angle 32” IPS monitor, […]
If you have ever been, or currently are, a news photographer your first light kit may have been a Lowel light kit. Lowel lights are workhorses and tough. I literally had a music video shoot where only Lowel lights worked on the suspect power found on location. Those lights saved the day. From Rifas, Totas, […]
A digest of last week’s news is a selection of some of the news from week 16 from 2016 related to the worlds of photography and video, covering multiple topics, always rounded up with a reading suggestion. NAB 2016: final numbers With 103012 registered attendees, 26,893 of them international, 1,874 companies spanning 1,063,380 net square […]
Read More… from A digest of last week’s photo and video news – Week 17
Usually when a product is announced at NAB the manufacturer has one or two prototype display units that remain in their booth under a plexiglass box, but this year when mega-drone manufacturer DJI announced the release of the Z-Axis adapter for their popular Osmo handheld gimbal stabilizer, they allowed a few test units to be […]
Last Monday, April 18, an hour before NAB 2016 opened, Craft Camera’s website started taking reservations on a new, modular camera system, offering Super16mm HD or Super35mm true 4K resolutions, and a “buy it by the slice” design similar to recent RED models. [Corrected 25 April: the 4K sensor is (or will be) Super35mm size, not […]
