For Tom Zweibel, digital video producer for the New York Knicks, the workday doesn’t end when the final buzzer sounds. When the game’s over, it’s time to edit all the footage he’s just shot for delivery to any of the Knicks’ internal or external platforms. Zweibel shoots about 12 to 14 hours of video every […]
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This article would be unnecessary if Apple would simply do the right thing and license its OS X operating system to HP, as I covered in Will the new HP ZBook Studio be the next legal Hackintosh? in November 2015 (link ahead). This article covers motivations to Hackintosh, along with legal and moral/ethical issues and […]
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In my view, a video pro who is looking for a portable workstation with a laptop form factor should be seeking a few key features: the fastest possible speed to handle the latest video formats; state of the art connectivity with external peripherals & networking; a high-quality matte 16:9 screen with good off-axis viewing; easy […]
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A digest of last week’s news is a selection of some of the news from week 18 from 2016 related to the worlds of photography and video, covering multiple topics, always rounded up with a reading suggestion. Canon patent for an anamorphic lens Canon filled an optical patent for a new lens to join their […]
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VR technology is here…sorta. Storytelling, though, has taken a back seat to technology. That’s a big problem. Recently I attended the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality (SVVR) Expo at the San Jose Convention Center. While most things related to entertainment exist in places like LA and NY, my stomping grounds—the San Francisco Bay Area—are where it’s […]
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There are a lot of misconceptions about transcoding, and discussions on transcoding pop up in forums and groups quite often. This is an attempt to bring some facts and practical advice on the table. The Myth we’re busting: Transcoding your 8-bit source material to 10-bit will magically make it more robust, so you can do […]
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If you’re in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 14 then join other filmmakers and post-production aficionados at the first ever LA Post Fest. PVC’s own Woody Woodhall and the Los Angeles Post Production Group was part of the creative team behind this video editing and post-production competition. The contest is closed for this year but […]
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This week on MacBreak Studio, returning special guest Sam Mestman shows our host Steve Martin from Ripple Training how he uses the Tangent Element to control Final Cut Pro X. Sam, who is behind the shared storage solutions from LumaForge, has figured out how to map Final Cut Pro’s keyboard commands to the buttons, knobs, […]
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Speed ramps used to be rare, and before that, nonexistent. Slow motion has long been a part of cinema—it mirrors the psychology of how we recollect powerful or traumatic moments—but the ability to swoop gracefully in and out of slow mo belongs to the era of Phantom cameras and now, camera phones that can record 250fps […]
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