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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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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Monday, April 11, 2011

NAB 2011 - Sunday Seminars

I sampled several seminars in the Post|Production World and Digital Cinema Summit.

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On Sunday I sat in on several classes and sessions, to get a feel for the non-show-floor goings-on at NAB. Herewith, my fragmented, barely-edited notes.

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

HPA Tech Retreat 2011 Day 4

3D ghosts, camera arrays, etc.; final thoughts.

On this fourth and final day of the 2011 Tech Retreat, we learned about standards activities, 3D ghosts, camera arrays, automated audio “recognition”, a new method for making film protection masters, how bending a cable affects its performance, and a whirlwind tour through TV Tech history. Also: the death of tape… for real this time?

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Thursday, February 17, 2011

HPA Tech Retreat 2011 Day 3

After the fear and trembling yesterday, suggestions of solutions; OLEDs; DSLRs; and more.

Day 3 (by my counting; HPA calls this Day 2, because Tuesday’s Super Session doesn’t count) covered LTO-5, LTFS, IMF, HDSLR, OLED, FIMS, SOA, SLA, monitors vs. displays, file-based mastering, Hollywood in the cloud, and Disney restorations.

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

HPA Tech Retreat 2011 Day 2

Mayhem, confusion, and chaos continue!

Day 2 of the Tech Retreat covered the year in review, CES, cloud storage, broadcasting, pool feed audio, content protection, transcoding, stereo subtitles, and more…

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

HPA Tech Retreat 2011 Day 1

HPA Super Session 2011—Snowflake Workflows

HPA set the stage for the Super Session with these words:

“With all the options in workflow today, it seems no two projects are exactly alike.  Just like snowflakes, our projects begin beautiful, shiny, and a unique wonder to behold. But as they slowly drift to their final destination, they seem to just turn into slush, as we leave them behind searching for our next wonderful, pristine, new way.”

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Sunday, February 13, 2011

HPA Tech Retreat 2011

The industry’s most thought-provoking conference happens this week.

There’s a quiet gathering in Palm Springs every February. Many of the post-production industry’s leading luminaries, along with a gaggle of production folks, hangers-on, and ne’er-do-wells (including your correspondent) assemble for the Hollywood Post Alliance’s Tech Retreat, three and a half days of discussion about where the industry is and where it’s going.

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

RED Visit, 21 September: EPIC!

I hold an EPIC in my hands, and get a glimpse beneath the covers and behind the scenes.

RED Studios

[Update 2010.09.27: Spanish version / versión en español with thanks to / gracias a Carlos Zapater.]

At five minutes to midnight on 13 September, I received a short message from RED Digital Cinema’s Jim Jannard: “Want to come to the studios and get a sneak peak of EPIC and the soon to be famous HDRx?” Eight days later—this past Tuesday, at high noon—I stood at the gates of RED Studios in Los Angeles, not really sure what to expect.

I wasn’t disappointed.

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

Edit and Optimize 2D Stereo Pairs from a 3D Video Camera or Twin Cameras with a Modified Stereo 3D Rig in After Effects CS5.5

How to get the “24p” look for your live-switched multicam shoot
Allan Tépper

A contracted article, sponsored by Datavideo Corporation.

Gear In 60 Seconds – Nauticam NA-60D
Matt Jeppsen

Getting watery trick shots with this DSLR housing

Any Way You Want It
Mark Spencer

Setting Up a Rig in Motion 5 on MacBreak Studio

Editing with Final Cut Pro X
Mark Spencer

7 Professional Editors Share Their FCP X Experiences

Another week in After Effects
Rich Young

A news roundup

Redrock Micro’s ultraCage for the C300
Clint Milby

New Cage Fits New Camera Like A Glove

Q and A with Bunim/Murray’s Mark Raudonis about their recent Avid switch
Scott Simmons

If you haven’t heard they have moved from FCP7 to Media Composer

Kicking the tires on the Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 Multicam update
Scott Simmons

The ease of setup and managing multicam clips makes this the best FCPX update yet

25 Camera Angles in 25 Minutes
Mark Spencer

Multicamera Editing in Final Cut Pro X

Expression Shorts - Numerical Readout
David Torno

Create numerical readouts for use in HUD style graphics.

If You Make Your Living In Post, Don’t Miss The HPA Tech Retreat
Terence Curren

The best event for keeping up to speed in the post production world.







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

Jeff Foster | 02/10- 06:09 PM

Edit and Optimize 2D Stereo Pairs from a 3D Video Camera or Twin Cameras with a Modified Stereo 3D Rig in After Effects CS5.5

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.

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How to get the “24p” look for your live-switched multicam shoot

Allan Tépper | 02/10- 04:23 PM

A contracted article, sponsored by Datavideo Corporation.

Our friends at Datavideo recently asked me to write an article called How to get the “24p” look for your live-switched multicam shoot. The article covers many factors involved in accomplishing that goal, including framerate, aperture, shutter speed, depth of field, and menu settings in Datavideo’s digital HD video mixers (“switchers”) and recorders, and also the menu settings in several pro cameras from Canon, Panasonic, and Sony. The included chart explains which of the cameras have a direct HD-SDI output, and which require an optional converter to go from HDMI to HD-SDI to connect to the Datavideo digital HD video mixer. As you’ll see in the article, the approach is quite different from the workflows I normally cover, which are more appropriate when programs are to be edited, as opposed to when they are shot —and potentially broadcast— live. The graphics for this article were done by Victory Elliot of Datavideo Corporation.

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