Thursday, September 02, 2010

Redrock Micro Unveils Redrock|ops HDSLR Support

Clint Milby | 09/02- 02:42 PM

Much More Than Meets The Eye…

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One of the highlights of attending Hurlbut Visuals HDSLR Bootcamp was getting a sneak peek at some new and exciting camera support gear by the sponsors.  One such treat was Redrock Micro’s new line of camera support gear, Redrock|ops.

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Monday, August 30, 2010

The Best of Stunning Good Looks

Art Adams | 08/30- 02:31 PM

A directory of my best articles, sorted by topic.

This entry is a guide to my best articles, sorted by topic. Enjoy!

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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Shane Hurlbut’s HDSLR Revolution

Clint Milby | 08/26- 12:32 PM

Legendary ASC discusses how the HDSLR changed his life, and how it will change yours…

When I called Shane Hurlbut, he was just returning from a shoot with the US Marine Corps in North Carolina. Shane is one of the most visible and vocal proponents of using the HDSLR for cinematic applications. From the first time Shane held the 5D Mark II, he instinctively knew the technology would not only change the film industry, but the world as well.

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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Canon Strikes Back!

Clint Milby | 08/26- 11:27 AM

New 60D Boasts Improved Audio and Adjustable LCD at $1099.00

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In the face of an HDSLR uprising with Sony and Nikon leading the way, Canon strikes back strong with the announcement of the highly anticiapted 60D.  According to Canon, the 60D represents the culmination of many requests from HDSLR shooters.  Yuichi Ishizuka, vice president and GM of Canon USA’s Consumer Imaging Group says “The EOS 60D has been designed to offer the image-capture and the Full HD video features customers are looking for as they continue to expand their photographic skills…”.

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Sony’s Full Frontal Assault On the HDSLR Market Continues…

Clint Milby | 08/24- 10:32 AM

Two new cameras with truly innovative features

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If there is a war between manufacturers for the greatest share of the HDSLR market, then Sony is launching a shock and awe campaign with no end in sight. Their latest assault, the second in a month, is the announcement of two new DSLRs, the α55 and α33. These two cameras seem to aggressively target the Canon T2i and 7D head on.

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

AdobeCS5 and nVidia:  First Impressions Part 3

Bruce A Johnson | 08/21- 10:06 PM

It Ain’t All Skittles And Beer…

Well, I’ve been editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and the nVidia Quadro CUDA video card for about six months now, and it has been an interesting ride.  You can check out my starting impressions in blog posts here, here and here.  But what’s the latest?

I recently had one of those Tevye “Fiddler On The Roof” moments - you know, when he sings “Sunrise, Sunset” and weeps about how quickly his children grow up?  Well, the summer of 2010 has been like that for me.  It seems like yesterday that I was sliding the nVidia card into my fairly-new HP z800 eight-core Xeon edit workstation.  Blink twice and it is the end of August.  To say this has been a busy summer of editing is a gross understatement.  I’ve shot and edited around 25 videos of varying length for the craft industry, did multi-cam shoots and edits for several concerts, did a commercial for a Vermont bed & breakfast and managed to pack in a a wedding shoot and edit to boot.  I would love to say that the experience was flawless…but I can’t.  I’ve had almost as many crashes with Premiere CS5 as I did when I was running CS4 with what was usually a fairly buggy Matrox RT.X2 card. 

Two of my larger projects consisted of lots of HDV footage that was shared between several different timelines.  One of the projects had over 300 different HDV clips.  If you have edited with Premiere for long, I’m sure you had a project that, when loading, just grinds to a halt.  In this case, what seemed to be the offending clip was always a Quicktime .MOV file, and when you load up 300+ clips and the machine freezes at “12 clips remaining” to load, it’ll make you pull your hair out.  Interestingly, even shiny-new CS5 still offers the workaround that it’s predecessors did:

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Redrock Launches New “nano” Line of DSLR Rigs and Accessories

Clint Milby | 08/19- 12:25 PM

Compact, Economical Rigs Deliver Professional Quality on a Budget

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Hollywood, CA - Redrock Micro, the recognized leader in affordable professional-quality cinema accessories, today announced the new nano line of accessories and rigs for video DSLR cameras. 

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Add eSATA to a 27” iMac and untap RAID speeds of 3.3 times faster than FireWire 800

Allan Tépper | 08/18- 01:44 PM

OWC’s new eSATA modification for 27” iMac (mid 2010 models) makes it much more attractive for serious video editing systems

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Although it has been in existence for many years and is known to be among the best and fastest ways to connect local external hard drives or disk arrays to a computer, Apple strangely has been the only computer manufacturer to my knowledge which has not yet offered a direct eSATA port on any of its computers. Even way back in the Apple G5 tower era, I used to add eSATA ports to high-end video editing systems I integrated, and this of course has continued with the MacPro (Intel) era of Apple towers. The lack of direct eSATA port on all other Macs Mac, MacBook(Pro), and Mac Mini] has sadly meant that video editors have had to settle for slower FireWire 800 speeds… until now. The highly respected OWC (Other World Computing) is now offering a US$169 custom modification to iMac 27” (mid 2010 models) to add eSATA, which untaps 3.3 times faster performance with an external disk array or SSD, compared to FireWire 800. This article will cover what the extra speed means to a video editor, how eSATA has been added to Macs before (with compromises), the advantages of OWC’s new official upgrade plan, and how to do critical video evaluation monitoring with an iMac.

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