In an earlier tutorial, I addressed removing pulldown from 3:2 and 2:3:3:2 (24pA) sources. You can find this information all over the web pretty easily. But recently I found that I needed to ADD pulldown to a 23.98 edit to deliver it in NTSC SD. Many modern video cards like the AJA Kona 3 can [...]
Read More 29.97, 3:2, Creative Cow, DG Fastchannel, HDCAM, Pulldown, TwixtorCheck out the 2 minute version of a kick ass commercial produced by Brain Farm Digital Cinema for Visa Black Card Brain Farm Digital Cinema website
Read MoreRaidon has announced a SSD/Spinning hard drive combo called the HyBrid Disk. From Macworld: Designed to replace 3.5-inch hard drive mechanisms, users read and write files to the SSD while the hard drive mirrors the SSD contents at scheduled intervals, creating a back up of the data. Seems like an interesting concept, but I see [...]
Read MoreLook at this thing! It’s a HPX171 with goggles. Panasonic has started taking reservations for this $21,000 HD 3D camcorder that’s supposed to ship this fall. They’ve also announced a full line of 3D equipment including monitors and switchers: http://pro-av.panasonic.net/en/3d/ I’ve really been surprised by the explosion of 3D this year. I don’t know if [...]
Read MoreFollowing in the footsteps of Panasonic and Olympus with their Micro Four Thirds format, Sony has announced a line of compact cameras with APS-C sized sensors and interchangeable lenses. It will shoot 1080p video, which makes it direct competition to the Panasonic Lumix GF-1 and GH-1 cameras. Look at the image to see how big [...]
Read MoreI was having dinner the other day with Tate (blog: DeathCookieEntertainment.com) and Courtney (Court, you need to get a blog!) and we were talking about our websites, what was working and what wasn’t, and about the other blogs that we read regularly. I admitted that the biggest problem I encountered was that I was using [...]
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