Monday, December 01, 2008

Apple Releases Pro Apps Updates

Richard Harrington | 12/01- 05:17 PM

Be sure to pick up the latest update

Apple has just released a set of Pro Applications Updates which improve reliability add add new features. The applications included in the update: Final Cut Pro 6.0.5 Compressor 3.0.5 Color 1.0.3 Shake 4.1.1. Here are some of the highlights of the updates (the full list is here).

Monday, December 01, 2008

Final Cut Help - Animating Text with Keyframes

Richard Harrington | 12/01- 05:14 PM

Learn to animate Text in Motion

Join Apple Certified Trainer Mason Dixon as he shows you how to animate text with keyframes in Motion.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Events: DCS & MFM discuss CineAlta; FCPUG SuperMeet; Broadcast Video Expo

Adam Wilt | 11/26- 05:20 PM

Three months, three events, in the SF Bay Area and London.

Get out, meet people, see cool things, and learn stuff. December: Learn about CineAlta cameras and different recording gammas in Cupertino. January: party with the FCP faithful at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. February: the UK’s own miniature version of IBC takes place at Earl’s Court in London. Be there, or may your pixels be ever non-square.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Green/Magenta?

Adam Wilt | 11/18- 10:19 PM

Testing RED ONE for green/magenta sensitivity, and what we found.

Art Adams and I have observed here on PVC that the RED ONE seems unusually sensitive to green and magenta colors. The topic keeps coming up on the cinematographer’s mailing list, too, and on reduser.net. I decided to compare the R1 to several other cameras under a variety of lighting conditions. I got more than I bargained for.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

My First Shoot with the Sony F35

Art Adams | 11/16- 06:41 PM

In which a series of tests becomes the fastest spec spot shoot in history

About a week and a half ago I received an email from Leigh Blicher, partner at Videofax in San Francisco. “Just wanted to let you know our F35 has arrived.” My response read something like this: “Ooo! Oh! Oh oh oh! Ooooo oh oh OH! Oh! OHHHHH! Can I come over and PLAY?”

Monday, November 03, 2008

Making “One Man, One Vote”

Adam Wilt | 11/03- 06:19 PM

Production and post for a seven-minute short.

Ten years ago a fellow named Marshall Spight posted a challenge on DV-L called “Throwing Down the DV Gauntlet”, in which he said, “everyone talks about shooting serious dramatic films with DV, but does anyone actually do it?” I responded, and we wound up making a 20-minute short called “The Beautiful Thing” using Sony DCR-VX1000s, the first 1/3” 3-CCD DV camcorders. It came out so well (it was for a time the top-rated dramatic film on iFilm.com, an early and long-defunct predecessor to YouTube) that we set about making a short political drama/comedy (?), “One Man, One Vote”. This one gave us a few more challenges.

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