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Adam WiltAdam 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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Pix: Zacuto rig; RED testsA Zacuto support kit for small cameras; Art Adams tests RED build 15 at Chater Camera
Camera porn: some photographs from the past couple of days… more »
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RED? Or Cyan?Why the RED’s highlights went cyan and dark, and how to fix ‘em.
In my unfair comparison of three cameras, I found that RED’s overexposed highlights went cyan and got darker than surrounding, non-overexposed areas. Here’s why it happened, and how to fix it—it’s an easy fix, but you’ll appreciate it more if you see what happens if you don’t use it! more » Working with RED FootageRED’s postproduction tools, and some pitfalls of learning them.
For my unfair comparison of three cameras, I had to process RED clips to a greater degree than I had previously, including dealing with odd overexposure artifacts. I relate my experience, both to describe the steps I took to decide on the processing parameters I did, and to show what I ran into when learning to use RED’s tools. more »
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Daniel García,
Adam Wilt,
Daniel García,
Patrick Renner,
Scott Gentry,
Scott Gentry,
totti,
Sean,
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EX1 Misfocusing ExplainedSome PMW-EX1s show back-focus changes when internal ND filters are used
[Updated 2008.03.29] I noticed in my unfair comparison of three cameras that the EX1’s outdoor shot wasn’t in focus. I was puzzled: I had zoomed in and focused carefully, then zoomed out and shot. Was back-focus that far off? It hadn’t been when I last checked it. Hmm… more »
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Steven Thomas,
Adam Wilt,
Luc Meisel,
Steve Thomas,
Scott Worthington,
Scott Worthington,
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Three three-letter cameras: EX1, F23, REDAn unfair comparison of three entirely different cameras
On March 7th, Tim Blackmore and I visited Videofax, a San Francisco camera rental house. Videofax is unique in the area (as far as I know) in having both a RED ONE digital cinema camera and a Sony F23 HDCAM-SR camcorder. Videofax’s Leigh Blicher kindly invited us to come by and take a look, following the DCS RED Event the previous weekend. How could we refuse? more »
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tai krige sasc,
tai krige sasc,
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an actual DP,
monts,
tai krige sasc,
monts,
tai krige sasc,
Jason,
Boom Boom,
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Exporting stills from FCPCorrecting for FCP’s assumptions, and a surprising discovery.
I recently had a chance to compare the PMW-EX1 with a RED and an F23 (about which, more will be said in coming days). I collected quite a few video clips from the cameras and I’m going through the process of exporting still frames from the two Sonys, using Final Cut Pro. As I want to capture the full exposure range in the stills, there’s more to it than just parking the playhead on a frame and doing File > Export > Using QuickTime Conversion. As it turns out, there’s also a surprise. more »
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PMW-EX1: XDCAM Transfer 2.5.1 for Mac ReleasedFixes clock-mode timecode import bug; qualified for OS X 10.4.11 and higher Sony has released XDCAM Transfer 2.5.1, software used to import XDCAM clips into QuickTime and Final Cut Pro. This version fixes a bug where PMW-EX1 recordings made with CLOCK-mode free-run timecode were not being properly imported, and it is qualified to run both on OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.x.
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Greg Boston,
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