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NAB 2013: Freefly Systems Movi M10

2013-04-09T06:32:00+00:00

Their demo video took the world by storm last week, and now here is the Movi M10 live and in person.

HPA Tech Retreat Wrap-up

2013-02-25T02:24:00+00:00

The 2013 HPA Tech Retreat has concluded. In my final report, I offer some observations, look at a few items in the Demo Room, and show Mark Schubin’s post-retreat treat.

Observations and Comments

4K and the cloud were in, 3D was out.

Sony has apparently had F55 4K...

HPA Tech Retreat Day 4

2013-02-23T06:52:00+00:00

The Tech Retreat is an annual four-day conference (plus Monday bonus session) for HD / Video / cinema geeks, sponsored by the Hollywood Post Alliance. Day 4 offered a SMPTE update, lens metadata, lightfield cameras, new encoding paradigms, Ethernet AVB and video, upconverting to 4K, and the...

HPA Tech Retreat Day 1: Super-sized Session: More, Bigger, but Better?

2013-02-20T05:37:00+00:00

The Tech Retreat is an annual four-day conference (plus Monday bonus session) for HD / Video / cinema geeks, sponsored by the Hollywood Post Alliance. The program for this year's show is online at http://www.hpaonline.com/2013-program and the opening "Super-sized Session" was on "More,...

San Francisco Super Meet 2013: Cinema 4D

2013-02-11T13:09:00+00:00

There was a bevy of software companies at the San Francisco SuperMeet 2013, and beyond who you’d expect to see, including Adobe and Avid and newcomer Technicolor, (look for coverage of their new product later), it was my pleasure to get up close and personal with...

3D HFR and the Immersive Experience

2013-01-04T18:00:00+00:00

There seems little doubt that display technology and the way we experience media today won't necessarily look the same throughout the 21st century, any more than Downton Abbey looks like Enter the Void, or a zoetrope resembles Call of Duty. There are, for example,...

The Hobbit in 48p 3D - Technological Hero or Flop?

2012-12-29T21:08:00+00:00

There has been much anticipation for this holiday release of The Hobbit - not only in bringing this classic novel to life from the team that brought us a success of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but to experience the new technological advances of 3D on the big screen at 48p. But is HFR (high frame rate) really ready for "prime time" or are we just not ready for it? I share my first reactions after seeing it myself and connect with other sources/opinions in attempting to make sense of it all... and this is going to be a heated debate for years as subjectivity and viewer feedback will win out in the end.

The Hobbit: Back to Middle Earth

2012-12-14T21:29:00+00:00

Almost nine years have passed since the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King during which loyal Tolkien fans speculated whether its literary prequel The Hobbit would ever make it to the silver screen. The adaptation was originally supposed to be a marriage of...

Create and animate 3D cogs in After Effects - Part 2

2012-09-03T16:31:00+00:00

Thanks to the new 3D capabilities of After Effects CS6, you can create and animate 3D cogs and gears inside of After Effects without the need for a true 3D program.

Create and animate 3D cogs in After Effects - Part 1

2012-09-03T16:11:00+00:00

Sometimes jobs turn out to be more complicated than you expect them to. Animating cogs and gears can be like that - it sounds like a nice idea, it's easy enough to arrange some stock photos of cogs together on a storyboard, but as soon as you try to animate them then things can turn pear shaped. This quick video tutorial shows you how to create your own cogs inside of After Effects, and demonstrates a simple technique to ensure they animate together seamlessly. Thanks to the new 3D capabilities of After Effects CS6, you can even create and animte 3D cogs and gears inside of After Effects without the need for a true 3D program.

Element 3D: new After Effects plug-in [updated]

2012-07-11T01:55:00+00:00

Video Copilot has released Element 3D, an After Effects plug-in that lets you import and animate 3D models, even as a particle array, and extrude text and mask shapes in real time. It's useful for all of us, for newbies and old hands & for straight 3D and more abstract experimentation, at least if you have a more recent OpenGL graphics card.

My lengthy Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 review now online

2012-05-26T20:08:00+00:00

Last week Studio Daily published my Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 review. It’s a longie but a goodie as I tried to go into detail about what I really like and what I kinda don’t like about this brand new Premiere Pro. I had been pounding it hard on several projects before writing the review. I have had a few questions about exactly what kind of jobs I’ve been working on with it.

NAB 2012: Assorted Snapshots

2012-05-09T07:38:00+00:00

I got this fisheye lens, y'see, and by gosh and by golly I'm a-gonna use it.

NAB is too big a show in too short a time to see more than a fraction of it. I've covered a few things in some depth (as have other PVC folks), but there's plenty more that slips by without proper coverage. Here, I have a few photos of interesting things that I saw in passing, with pointers for more info should anything catch your fancy.

Adobe Reveals Future Areas of Focus at NAB 2012

2012-04-19T05:28:00+00:00

Provideo Coalition- Adobe Video- NAB 2012 from RHED Pixel on Vimeo.

Richard Harrington discuss the future of Adobe Video with Bill Roberts the Director of Video Product Management for Adobe. They discuss future areas of focus that Adobe has and where Creative Suite is going.Richard has had a long history with Adobe including producing official Adobe books and training. He also runs his own shop using Adobe software.

NAB Sunday: Panasonic and Sony Press Conferences

2012-04-16T11:13:00+00:00

One of many GH2s being used to record the Panasonic press conference.

When big companies hold press conferences, they're a mix of marketing / sales encomiums from happy customers, and some actual useful information about technologies and products. I'll mostly focus on the tech stuff that Panasonic and Sony announced today (and adding my own snarky commentary in [square brackets]).

NAB 2012: Sony Press Conference

2012-04-16T09:56:00+00:00

Alec Shapiro hosting the 2012 Sony Press event. Sorry about the poor picture, but that's a cellphone for ya.

The annual Sony NAB press conference was held at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel, with a setting that seemed to be a bit less grandiose than previous years. Perhaps this is fitting considering that Sony recently announced as many as 10,000 layoffs coming in the near future. But even without that hanging over the festivities, the announcements made by Senior Vice President for Broadcast & Production Systems Alec Shapiro were less than stellar, and at times even seemed pretty out of touch, at least to an old broadcast hand like me. The overarching theme was "Believe Beyond HD," and near the end of the presentation the spectre of 4K acquisition did rear it's head. However, the first three items presented were not 4K productions, but 3D. Clips from the upcoming programs "Stormsurfers" and hip-hop competition "Battle Of The Year" were projected on a mid-sized screen, but oddly, even with the provided RealD glasses neither clip looked very 3D at all. (And seeing one of the "Stormsurfers" surfers very obviously holding a GoPro camera on the end of a stick suggests, at least, that not *all* of the footage was shot on Sony cameras.) Shapiro opined that 3D was growing by leaps and bounds, but at least in the home TV market, the just isn't true, and might well be a big part of Sony's current financial malaise. The third 3D production mentioned was ESPN's coverage of the X Games, but oddly, no clips were played - and I would REALLY have liked to seen those.

2D Footage with a Stereo 3D Rig in After Effects CS5.5

2012-02-11T07:09:00+00:00

Adobe included a 1-step option to create a 3D Stereo Camera Rig in After Effects CS5.5, to everyone's enthusiasm for a simpler workflow in 3D space. Great if you are working in 3D space in After Effects, but what about an easy option for 3D Stereo pairs captured by a 3D camera or twin cameras on a rig? In this tutorial I'll show you how to quickly modify the Stereo 3D Rig in After Effects to quickly mux your L&R video files and adjust the convergence for anaglyph, interlaced or stereo pairs output.

Stereo 3D Video Production with GoPro

2012-01-29T15:15:00+00:00

Whether you love it or hate it, 3D Stereography is here for awhile. And if you're totally into it like I am, you quickly realize that there are few turnkey workflows out there to capture and process 3D Stereo video that's easy to setup, shoot and edit Stereo pairs. Sure, there are a lot of high-end (expensive to rent) systems for two cameras to shoot, software to sync/mux the footage and rigs you can build to edit it, but GoPro has brought it together with a fun and easy-to-use system that anyone can use.

Lytro is the new RAW?

2012-01-12T23:07:00+00:00

If you aren't familiar with Lytro, they are an innovative company that is very close to releasing a Light-Field Camera. This affordable consumer stills camera has the unique ability to calculate the angle of light hitting the sensor, and store that data along with the image data. Later, in post, you can refocus the image however you wish. It's amazing technology, and there's literally nothing like it in the consumer market. After watching an interview with Lytro's CEO, it really got me thinking about the future possibilities of this technology as a creative tool for professionals...

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Creating 3D Objects using Adobe Repoussé

2011-11-21T21:00:00+00:00

As we mentioned earlier, we've been busy this year creating an extensive, multi-course video training series based on our popular beginner's book After Effects Apprentice. Each course has two or more movies that are free for all to view; we're re-posting those videos here on PVC to make sure you don't miss them. This movie explains the ins and outs of using Adobe Repouss© to create 3D objects that may then be imported into After Effects.