Day 23 #28daysofQuickTips 2018 – Drag in media for a quick import into your NLE

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While all the three major NLEs have a tool made for importing media into a project both Final Cut Pro X and Avid Media Composer tend to like to have (or want you to use) managed media in that you can move or transcode into an FCPX library or transcode into an Avid friendly OP Atom format stored in […]

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Panasonic AU-EVA1: RAW output is coming

Panasonic AU-EVA1: RAW output is coming

RAW output and All-Intra recording and 2K at 240fps RAW output and additional interlaced HD recording formats are some of the new features available to the Panasonic AU-EVA1. Panasonic launched recently a firmware upgrade, version 1.12, to its AU-EVA1 5.7K cinema camera, expanding the camera’s compatibility with six more Sigma ART lenses and correcting a […]

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Day 22 #28daysofQuickTips 2018 – Group and Ungroup in Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro Group

Day 22 is another reader QuickTip that comes to us all the way from Jamaica. Twain Richardson is an editor and post-production pro in Kingston (and a longtime Twitter user) and he sends us a note about Grouping and Ungrouping in Adobe Premiere Pro. Take it away Twain: My quick tip is Group and Ungroup. This is […]

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Panasonic AK-UC4000: raising the bar for 4K HDR

Panasonic AK-UC4000: raising the bar for 4K HDR

Available March 2018, the new AK-UC4000 joins the current AK-UC3000 4K HDR capable-camera and the AK-HC5000 1080p 4x high-speed HDR capable-system. The introduction of the new AK-UC4000 studio camera, which brings together the features of both the AK-UC3000 4K HDR and the AK-HC5000 1080p 4x high-speed HDR, represents for Panasonic a solution to raise the […]

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Sound for Philip K. Dick’s – Electric Dreams

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Electric Dreams is an apt title for the new anthology series for television, created from the short stories of Philip K. Dick. Dick’s works offer a sci-fi worldview about the intersection of humanity and technology that is perhaps even more relevant today than when they were originally written. A prolific author, lost to an early […]

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Your camera does not have a color gamut

Your camera does not have a color gamut 3

Yes, it’s true: your camera has no color gamut. Don’t believe me? Good, ’cause I’m going to try to lay it out for you. I’m not sure I’ve got it all down yet, but let’s see how far I get. Ready? Brace yourself. SPECTRAL SENSITIVITIES A camera is a measuring device. That’s not sexy, but […]

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KODAK announces a scanner and three projectors

KODAK announces a scanner and three projectors

Bring film to the digital age with the KODAK Scanza scanner, or take your home theater anywhere, with the new projectors, which connect to a phone, computer or other device to project images and video onto any surface. The new KODAK Scanza Digital Film Scanner recently introduced by C+A Global, the North American brand licensee […]

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Day 21 #28daysofQuickTips 2018 – Use DaVinci Resolve free to test your XMLs and conforms

Resolve import XML

If you’re an editor who has to send out your projects to a colorist (besides being one of the lucky few in this age of one-man-bands) you want that project conform on the colorist’s end to be smooth and trouble-free. Often a color session is being charged by the hour so if the colorist is […]

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Split SDI ports, or: how to hack an Arri Mini

Split SDI ports, or: how to hack an Arri Mini 9

“My assistant says it’s impossible,” said the Steadicam operator over coffee at Arri headquarters in Burbank. “The DIT wants a LogC output, but I need a Rec 709 feed to see what I’m framing.” A bunch of us were hanging out during a training break. Arri was bringing us up to speed as instructors for […]

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Panasonic AU-EVA1 5.7K compatible with six more Sigma ART lenses

Panasonic AU-EVA1 5.7K compatible with six more Sigma ART lenses

The six new Sigma ART lenses added to the long list of lenses compatible with the Panasonic AU-EVA1 5.7K  are one of the reasons for the firmware 1.12 upgrade. A lens interface issue has also been resolved. The list of lenses compatible with the Panasonic AU-EVA1 5.7K handheld cinema camera continues to grow, and the […]

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