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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. 
NAB 2012: Assorted SnapshotsNAB 2012: REDNAB 2012: Camera SupportNAB 2012: Unmanned Aerial VehiclesNAB 2012: RecordersNAB 2012: New EVFsNAB 2012: Cameras & LensesNAB 2012: Canon C300 Image ProcessingNAB 2012: Is BMD the new RED, Part 2?Is BMD the new RED?$3000 BMD Cine Camera?NAB Sunday: Canon’s PresentationNAB Sunday: Panasonic and Sony Press ConferencesFS700: Fire & IceTesting the NEX-FS700 at Meets The EyeAn NEX-FS700 Amuse-BoucheQuick Look: Sony PVM-740 OLED DisplayQuick Look: Alpha A-mount Lenses on the FS100Review: Sony NEX-FS100 “Super35” LSS AVCHD CamcorderQuick Look: Variable ND FiltersThird-Party Accessories for the FS100Quick Look: Sony F65 4K Digital Cine CameraReview: Panasonic AG-AC160 and AG-HPX250 1/3” 3-MOS camcordersAffordable PL-mount Primes ComparedQuick Look: Three New E-Mount Primes
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Maelstrom - Production (part 1)Shooting “jazz style” on a Rob Nilsson feature
Day 0 - Finishing up our preproduction for Rob Nilsson’s film, “Maelstrom”, Tim and I head up to San Francisco and Emeryville to pick up gear. Videofax has an EX1 with wide-angle adaptor to back up ours and serve as a B camera, and Chater Camera has two Lectrosonics wireless systems with Sonotrim mikes to supplement my two existing Sony WRR/WRT-28 wirelesses with ECM-77s. more »Random RED RevelationsStuff we learned during testing and Art’s spec spot shoot
The more we work with RED ONEs, the more we learn about what they do and how to work with them, thus the following grab-bag of observations and experiences. more »
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Schneider IR Filter TestsUsing the 486 UV-IR Cut filter to improve imaging.
Last week, Art Adams, Tim Blackmore, Ted Allen, and I tested the Schneider 486 UV/IR cut filter on a RED ONE and on a Sony PMW-EX1. Tim wore his famous “doesn’t look anything like that in real life” “black” shirt, and we lit him with IR-rich incandescent sources. more »
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RED on location: Art Adams shoots a spec spotArt’s first chance to use a RED ONE on a location shoot.
We arrive on location at 4:00pm. The shoot occurs at the elegant Craftsman-style house of Craig and Diana, an unsuspecting Oakland couple. more »
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Snapshots - NAB 2008 Day 4Stuff I saw on the final day of NAB 2008
Softron Media Systems demoed their suite of fully Mac-native broadcast automation apps, with OS X compliant user interfaces. Their capture and playout apps use AJA or BlackMagic cards, standard codecs, and are AppleScriptable. Never heard of Softron? They’ve been in TV Stations in Europe and Asia for several years; in Russia this past year; they’re just now coming into North America. If you’re interested in Mac-flavored broadcasting, dowload demo software or the user manuals and see for yourself. Of course, there are other Macintosh broadcast apps—BUG.tv is also Mac-centric, and Building4Media‘s front ends are cross-platform—but I thought Softron deserved a look since they’re new to our market. more » Review: Camhandle camera supportRenegade tripod handle makes handheld shooting smoother.
The $220 Camhandle looks like a tripod handle gone AWOL from its tripod. Its attachment plate bolts to the underside of the camera, and it hangs off the left front side. It looks goofy, but it works surprisingly well. I tested it for two weeks on the notoriously hard-to-handhold PMW-EX1. more »
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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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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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Compositing in FCP X
On this week’s MacBreak Studio
On this week’s MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training a few things I’ve discovered in my exploration of the compositing features in Final Cut Pro X.
David Atkins Enterprises and Digital Pulse use Adobe software for record-setting arena projection
Australian production studio delivers animation for the 12th Arab Games, on record-size projection space, using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.
In December 2011, the 12th quadrennial Arab Games took place in Doha, Qatar at Khalifa International Stadium. As part of the planning process for the Doha games, the world-renowned event production agency, David Atkins Enterprises (DAE), was commissioned to conceive and produce the opening and closing ceremonies. Following this commission, DAE contracted Australian digital design and video production specialists, Digital Pulse, to produce the animated visuals for the opening ceremony including the athletes’ parade and cultural segments. Far from a conventional production canvas, the animated visuals that the Digital Pulse team were to produce for the event would have to play seamlessly across the stadium’s two different playback systems: a contiguous LED system installed behind all stadium seats and an 86-projector projection system that covered a world record 12,600 cubic metres of on-field projection space.
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