Adam Wilt

Adam Wilt has been working off and on in film and video for the past thirty years, while paying the bills writing software for animation, automation, broadcast graphics, and real-time control for companies including Abekas, Pinnacle, Omneon, CBS, and ABC.

Since 1997 his website, adamwilt.com, has been a popular reference for information on the DV formats. He has reviewed cameras for DV Magazine and written its "Technical Difficulties" column, and taught classes and led panels at NAB, IBC, and DV Expo. He co-authored the book,"Optimizing Your Final Cut Pro System", part of the Apple Pro Training series; he hopes you'll buy a copy, as there's still a large advance to be paid off.

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Quick Look: Sony F65 4K Digital Cine Camera

BandPro’s Jeff Cree shows off the F65 at Videofax in San Francisco.

Last week, San Francisco rental house extraordinaire Videofax took delivery of Sony F65 #15, and on Thursday BandPro’s Jeff Cree came up to show off the camera to local DPs, ACs, and DITs. I was able to shoot some photos and take some notes, which I have pulled together and annotated, in a somewhat scattershot manner, for your viewing pleasure.  [Update 2012.01.29: typo & terminology fixes]

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Review: Panasonic AG-AC160 and AG-HPX250 1/3” 3-MOS camcorders

Panasonic delivers full-res, full-function, feature-rich 3-chippers.

While all the attention is focused on large-single-sensor cine-style camcorders, Panasonic has come out with a line of high-quality 1/3” 3-MOS handhelds that leave little to be desired. The HPX250 is a handheld version of the shoulder-mount HPX370, while the AC160 and its simplified sibling, the AC130, bring the same fundamentals to the AVCCAM (AVCHD) world. [Update 2012.01.30: SDI out is 10-bit only on 250, not 160.]

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Friday, January 06, 2012

Affordable PL-mount Primes Compared

85 minutes of lens tests!

If you’re in the market to rent or buy “affordable” PL-mount primes (e.g., under $10,000/lens), you won’t want to pass up this test.

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Quick Look: Three New E-Mount Primes

Sony’s new 24mm, 50mm, and 30mm macro lenses for NEX cameras.

Sony has three E-Mount primes coming out right about now, and I had a chance to play with prototypes of them attached to an NEX-FS100 LSS camcorder. Here are my impressions, and a short test.

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Thursday, December 08, 2011

LSS Notes: Sony F3/FS100 preso at MTE; “C300 = Awesome”

PMW-F3/NEX-FS100 demo Monday 12 Dec; large raster workflow seminar Tuesday 13 Dec; the best demo video ever.

[Update 9 Dec: ASG Large Raster Workflow seminar Tuesday in San Francisco.]

1) Media Solutions and Sony present Sony PMW-F3/NEX-FS100u Demo and Workflow Solutions this Monday, 12 December, at Meets The Eye Studios, San Carlos CA (Northern California, between San Francisco and San Jose).

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Monday, November 07, 2011

Quick Look: Canon EOS C300 LSS 1080p Camcorder

Canon confounds expectations; thinks very differently.

Last Thursday, Canon announced the EOS C300 (EF mount) and C300 PL (PL mount) “Cinema EOS” camcorders in a much-heralded rollout at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. Saturday, I had a chance to visit Paramount and see it for myself. [Update 2011-12-16: fixed malformed movie embed code.]

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Quick Notes: ETE Panel; MTE Open House

Two chances to heckle your correspondent!

Next week I’ll be involved in two public events, one in Burbank (a panel on production technology) and the other in San Carlos CA (our shooting stages open house). Come by to visit, to ask questions, to complain, or to throw things. Also: what’s in the pipeline after that.

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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Caleb Crosby’s FS100 Top Handle

The first aftermarket handle designed specifically for the NEX-FS100.

You can tell a camera has struck a chord when its users start turning out aftermarket accessories that are themselves objects of desire.

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Avid now lets you edit video on your iPad for US$4.99. Should you?
Allan Tépper

A first look at Avid Studio for iPad, and an extrapolation as to what it can mean for pro video editors in the short and longer term.

Marshall Debuts the Orchid, OR-2410
Clint Milby

Grade 1 Monitor Delivers Extreme Color Accuracy On Set

DP Alex Buono Talks C300 At SF SuperMeet
Clint Milby

SNL Veteran, Talks About Using the C300 For Network Television…

Update Alert: Final Cut Pro X goes to 10.0.3
Scott Simmons

A big update adds multicam, manual relinking, broadcast monitoring and the ability to move a project over from FCP7

AJA’s Io XT w/ Thunderbolt is now available, but it is not Riker: What’s the cover-up?
Allan Tépper

Why are William Riker and Leo Laporte involved in a Pegasus cover-up?

Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID5 from PROMISE
Allan Tépper

The high-performance video RAID5 you need for today’s modern Mac-based video editing systems

After Effects Apprentice Free Video: Exploring Shape Effects
Chris and Trish Meyer

An overview of five of the simpler shape operators that can turn your basic outline into something quite twisted.

Last week in After Effects
Rich Young

News on tutorials, scripts, plug-ins, demos, and more.

4K > 1080P?
Matt Jeppsen

Why you probably don’t need a 4K TV in your living room

LIGHTING STRATEGIES: Rough Guide to Illuminating a Bounce Card
Art Adams

Lighting a bounce card is easy, right? Right… IF you know the basics. Here they are.

Stereo 3D Video Production with GoPro
Jeff Foster

Using the GoPro HD Hero2 and the 3D Hero System with CineForm Software

Expression Shorts - Random Words Cycle
David Torno

Create a text layer that randomly cycles through words.







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Revisiting the RED workflow, Smoke 2012 style

Marc-Andre Ferguson | 02/03- 08:21 AM

My love affair with RED Digital Cinema began in 2007, when my brief stint as demo artist in the NAB RED booth turned into a regular gig at events and trade shows. When I joined Autodesk as Product Designer to help bring Smoke to the Mac, I was quickly assigned to construct our first RED workflow. Back then, building a RED workflow meant exploring unchartered territory, but since then things changed rather quickly in the last couple years.

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Avid now lets you edit video on your iPad for US$4.99. Should you?

Allan Tépper | 02/02- 04:33 PM

A first look at Avid Studio for iPad, and an extrapolation as to what it can mean for pro video editors in the short and longer term.

I was privileged to find out a few hours in advance of the public announcement of Avid Studio for iPad, since Avid contracted me to translate and localize the press release, as fortunately they often do. There was something about this press release that really intrigued me. It wasn’t so much the specific advantages that Avid Studio for iPad has over other editing apps for iPad, like offering both Storyboard and Timeline views in a single iPad app, or being able to import source material from anywhere inside or outside of the iPad. It was more the fact that the announcement was coming from Avid, and the spirit of the two quotes that appear at the end of the press release. In this article, I’ll give a first look at the app, define what it is (and what it isn’t), and extrapolate about what this can mean for video editing in the short, mid, and long term. Of course, I’ll include those two quotes that intrigued me so much.

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