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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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Sticky: Traveling with batteries, Pro Apps Updaters, etc.

Stuff to watch out for; tips ‘n’ tricks

FAA rules on lithium battery transport
Apple Pro Apps - save those updaters!
PMW-EX1: XDCAM Transfer 2.5.1 for Mac Released; fixes CLOCK-mode timecode import bug.



Monday, June 08, 2009

SxS Joins P2 in the Dustbin of History?

The new 13” & 15” MacBook Pros drop Expresscard34 for SD

Here at the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference, Apple announced a new lineup of MacBook Pros. The 13” and 15” models drop the Expresscard34 slot, in which we stuck our SxS cards for reading (or our Duel Systems P2 card adapter), replacing it with an SD card slot. The 17” keeps Expresscard34, for now.

Remember when, not so long ago, SxS boosters derided P2 as a reflection of the past, based on an obsolete card format (PCCard, or PCMCIA, which stands for People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms)? Glass houses, meet stones: looks like SxS, which fits in Expresscard34 slots, is also too backward-looking for the new low-end and midrange MBPs.

So what now? SD is the solid-state format of the future (or at least of today)? Should we be looking to Duel Systems to make an SD slot adapter for our SxS cards?

Then, of course, when we need to read P2 cards, we plug the P2 adapter into the SxS adapter into the SD slot… making the new MacBook Pros the turduckens of the data-capture world! 


Cameras
Hardware • (29) Comments • Most recent comments by: IEBA, Brad Fortner, aschin, Philip Bloom, no_spam, Philip Bloom, no_spam, Daniel Weber, Snow, Nino, • Permalink


Sunday, June 07, 2009

Cine Gear Expo 2009

Tools and toys of the trade, on the Paramount lot in Hollywood.

The “expo” part of Cine Gear Expo took place on Friday and Saturday last week (there were also Master Classes and film screening starting Thursday and ending Sunday). This year it was at “the Studios at Paramount” in Hollywood at Gower and Melrose. It was a balmy 70ºF (21º C) under cinematically cloudy skies, a far cry from the 100+º F of last year.


Cameras
Hardware
Lighting
Production • (3) Comments • Most recent comments by: IEBA, Adam Wilt, Jeff Kreines, • Permalink


Sunday, May 31, 2009

RED+FCP+Color: Making It All Work

Lessons learned in RED FCP/Color roundtripping, and a suggested FCP/Color workflow for RED clips.

I had previously reported that 2K REDCODE footage (2048x1152), shrunk to 93.75% to fit an HD timeline in FCP, came back from Color as 1920x1080 footage shrunk once again by another 93.75%. I’ve since explored this further and found out what was going on—as well as run into and characterized one of the oft-reported “softening” issues in Color. With these and other minor surprises in mind, I’ve developed a RED+FCP+Color workflow that works for me; maybe it’ll work for you, too.


Editing
Post Production • (7) Comments • Most recent comments by: bongiben, luca immesi, Adam Wilt, Charles Angus, mkhsfz, Adam Wilt, Charles Angus, • Permalink



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Sunday, May 03, 2009

Review: Sony RM-1000BP LANC Remote Control

Full—and I mean full—remote control of compatible Sony camcorders.

Sony’s US$1200 (street price) RM-1000BP Remote Commander is a LANC remote control. It connects to any Sony camcorder with a 2.5mm LANC (a.k.a. Control-L) jack, which means most consumer/prosumer Sonys built in the past two decades. 

On most of those camcorders, it’ll do pretty much what any other LANC controller does: start and stop recording, zoom the lens in and out, and (maybe) change focus or white balance. But on the latest generation DV camcorders—the HVR-Z5U, HVR-Z7U, and HVR-S270U—it gives you full access to just about every button and control on the camera, including menus and picture presets. 


Cameras
Hardware • (6) Comments • Most recent comments by: Adam Wilt, IEBA, Adam Wilt, Scott Gentry, Adam Wilt, IEBA, • Permalink


Sunday, May 03, 2009

Review: Sony VCL-HG0872K wide-angle lens for HVR-Z5U

This 0.8x lens widens the view and improves geometry.

The US$1000 VCL-HG0872K is a 0.8x wide lens designed specifically for the HVR-Z5U HDV camcorder; it bayonets in place of the Z5U’s lens hood. It widens the view nicely with negligible sharpness loss, and it actually improves image geometry through much of the zoom range.


Cameras
Hardware • (5) Comments • Most recent comments by: Adam Wilt, concertpix, IEBA, Adam Wilt, IEBA, • Permalink


Friday, May 01, 2009

If you read my NAB 2009 wrap-up in Firefox…

...you didn’t see all there was to see!

Just a quick update: I had some HTML comment lines in my NAB 2009 Wrap-up article. They caused Firefox (but not Safari or IE) to redact the sections on Storage, JVC, and Sony.

I’ve removed the comments and now Firefox sees the whole article. You may need to refresh those pages if you have ‘em in cache.


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Friday, May 01, 2009

Review: Sony HVR-Z5U 1/3” 3-CMOS HDV Camcorder

The Z5U can be thought of as the Z7U’s fixed-lens half-brother.

“When Sony bought Konica/Minolta”, says Sony’s Juan Martinez, “we suddenly became a major lens manufacturer.” One of the results of this acquisition is the HVR-Z5U, an HDV/DVCAM camcorder with a 20x fixed “G lens”. Consider it the wide-zooming half-brother of the HVR-Z7U, which shares much of what comes behind the lens.


Cameras
Production • (6) Comments • Most recent comments by: Gerry Fraiberg, bob r, Adam Wilt, bob r, Adam Wilt, bob r, • Permalink


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