Sunday, April 13, 2008

Long, AWESOME interview with James Cameron about shooting 3D

EXCELLENT interview with James Cameron, all about shooting 3D, in Variety. Detailed, GOOD, and dovetails/contrasts nicely with my notes from the 3D panel at NAB I attended yesterday.

James Cameron supercharges 3-D - Entertainment News, Technology News, Media - Variety

John August has a lengthy commentary as well where he calls James Cameron the Steve Jobs of 3D (and explains why he calls him that).

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Mike’s Notes from Saturday’s Digital Cinema Summit

Panel on 3D moviemaking

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Mike on the scene at NAB

Checkin’ it all out

Hey all - just a quick note to let you know I’ll be at the NAB show - today is Saturday, and I’m just sitting down at the Digital Cinema Summit to take notes on...whatever they are going to talk about next.

I’ll be bouncing between this and the Digital Tech Guru panels today/tomorrow, with maybe some DP panels as well - gotsta get me 5 minutes to see the schedules, work has been INSANELY busy this week (another post entirely).

Monday morning first thing I have an interview with Ted Schilowitz in the Red booth, and with anticipation of Scarlett ("professional, handheld camera"), 4K displays, 4K projectors, 4K distribution system, and a new Red reel I’ve been seeing pieces of for a few months, should be a helluva show.

I’ll be abusing my access priviledges to get in bright and early...for your benefit.

I’m also, through work, going to be spending some time with the Codex and S.two booths, they should both have some very interesting announcements, and other stuff as well of course.

It’ll be an interesting show with both Apple and Avid off the floor. I noticed Apple shipped Final Cut Server quietly last week, and Avid had some good announcements too.

: )

-mike

UPDATE - aaaaaaand then work intervened. I took some demo footage over to the Band Pro booth, and Randy Wedick and Michael Bravin gave me a quickie look-see at the new Sony F35 camera. It is the Genesis sensor (striped CCD) 35mm sized, with a PL mount, on what is otherwise an F23 body. Better brains behind it, so some image enhancements in the circuitry. More later.

I also got a quickie looksee at the Angineux Rouge lens, I will HAFTA check me out that! Aimed at the Red camera crowd.

-mike, yet again

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Friday, April 11, 2008

Red “Mythbusting” Video

Ted shows off how 4K footage can be dropped into a timeline for 2K offline editing

RED / RED Mythbusters

Ted Schilowitz sat down with Michael from Plaster City and did some mythbusting, to show that:

1.) You can play back on a Mac straight from the footage from camera
2.) You can drop that footage straight into Final Cut Pro
3.) You can play it back in Final Cut Pro without transcoding, and
4.) You can edit that footage, straight from camera

They shot it with two cameras, and walk you through the whole thing in real time. A good demo to see how it really does.

Caveats - you need a FAST machine - 8 core Mac Pro strongly recommended. You don’t get much in the way of realtime performance - you can play and you can cut.

BUT...it works! It is quick and easy if you need to cut stuff in a hurry AND have a fast box.

Link at top of article takes you to page on Red’s site that has small and large versions.

-mike

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