Razer Phone: your mobile theater experience

Razer Phone: your mobile theater experience

Available for $699.99, the Razer Phone offers an audiovisual experience like no other phone on the market.  RED’s Hydrogen will launch soon. Time to ask: is this the future of mobile theater experience? Although different products, the new Razer Phone and RED’s Hydrogen do share some characteristics, from the processor, the Snapdragon 835 chip (similar […]

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Mavic Air: a smaller, safer and smarter 4K drone

Mavic Air: a smaller, safer and smarter 4K drone

The most portable 3-axis gimbal 4K camera drone has the DJI name on it. The new Mavic Air promises limitless exploration wherever adventure takes you. DJI is now present on every segment of consumer drones. If the small entry level drone we announced here at ProVideo Coalition recently is not a pure DJI drone, it […]

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Google’s Project Fi mobile service is now better than ever

Google's Project Fi mobile service is now better than ever 1

First, I reviewed Google’s marvelous Project Fi mobile telephone & data service. Later, I published two different methods to make Project Fi work unofficially with an iPhone, even though I still use it personally with a certified pure Android phone. Most recently, I included Project Fi as one of four travel tips in a Medium article. […]

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ART OF THE CUT: Cutting The Post simultaneously with Ready Player One

ART OF THE CUT: Cutting The Post simultaneously with Ready Player One 5

When editors talk about the long-term “marriages” between a director and their editor, the discussion probably centers around three “power couples”: Thelma Schoonmaker and Martin Scorsese, Joel Cox and Clint Eastwood, and Michael Kahn and Steven Spielberg. This latter team has added a protege, Sarah Broshar, for their latest production, The Post (and for their […]

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Manfrotto TwistGrip: a new rig for smartphones

Manfrotto TwistGrip: a new rig for smartphones

Lightweight and compact, easily fitting in a pocket, the new TwistGrip from Manfrotto  can be configured to accept a wide range of accessories, to create the rig you need. Do we need another smartphone rig? Manfrotto believes we do, and the TwistGrip System is the company’s answer to those looking for a new solution. Made […]

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ProVideoPlayer 3 will be at 2018 NAB Show

ProVideoPlayer 3 will be at 2018 NAB Show

Featuring a redesigned user interface to form a complete media server, video processor and screen control solution, and including NDI support, the third-generation of ProVideoPlayer (PVP) will be demonstrated in Las Vegas next April, during the 2018 NAB Show. With the 2018 NAB Show next in the calendar, Renewed Vision is ready to demonstrate the […]

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The Accidental CFO: The Section 199A Deduction

The Accidental CFO: The Section 199A Deduction 13

What was Congress thinking, passing major tax reform a week before the holidays when there was still some serious shopping days left? Even if you did take time away from the festivities to read a few details of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the media were so focused on the reduced rate […]

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How to install/update Hindenburg Journalist (Pro) without Soundflower

How to install/update Hindenburg Journalist (Pro) without Soundflower 19

Frequent readers already know that Hindenberg Journalist (Pro) is my favorite multitrack audio editor for storytelling, and I have covered it in several articles. In Hindenburg Journalist (Pro)’s default installation or updater, the open-source Soundflower gets installed to bridge with other audio apps. However, many users prefer to use a commercial product like Sound Siphon, […]

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Fairlight Audio in DaVinci Resolve

Fairlight consoles

New Wave Entertainment (NWE) in Burbank, CA is an entertainment marketing company specializing in post-production and finishing services for broadcast, theatrical and social media advertising of film and TV programming. NWE has been busy with a rush of advertising on year end feature film releases and television programming. Recent campaigns include “Logan”, “All the Money […]

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Review: RØDE AI–1 interface—preamp and A-to-D/D-to-A converter

Review: RØDE AI–1 interface—preamp and A-to-D/D-to-A converter 23

As promised after teasing it in my recent RØDE NT1 microphone review, here is the RØDE AI–1 interface—preamp and bidirectional A-to-D/D-to-A converter. For the newcomers, A-to-D means analog-to-digital… and D-to-A means digital-to-analog. Since you already heard how it sounds with little stress in my recent NT1 microphone review, in this article I’ll share a test […]

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