Mike Curtis

Mike Curtis writes and runs HD for Indies, a consultancy and website dedicated to using affordable digital technology for independent filmmaking. Mike started HD for Indies after a 15 year digital media career making content for everything from cell phones to cinema screens for clients such as Ford, Dell, Compaq, etc.. As a consultant, he focuses on production and post production hardware, software, and workflows to achieve maximum results at a variety of budget levels.

NAB 2012: Motion Control Systems - CamBLOCK
Top Ten Trends of NAB 2012
Arri Booth NAB 2012
BlackMagic Design’s Cinema Camera - Supermodel Backrub with Ninja Claws?
Miss me? I hope so. Here’s what I stayed up all night writing.
So…where’ve I been?
Red (finally) takes the wraps off new camera - Scarlet-X
Canon’s new EOS C300 digital cinema line - competition for Red or Sony?
Single Chip Camera Evaluation screening tomorrow morning at CineGear
Come see my footage from F3 S-log & Leica Summilux-C lenses TONIGHT at CineGear
Mike finally gets to play with an Epic-M and HDRx
Mike’s NAB 2011 Day One Part One
Coming to NAB? Come see results of our 12 camera test Tuesday night
Yo, Creative Pros—Apple Doesn’t Love You Any More. Here’s why.
Did Apple actually lame out on the new Mac Pros?
New Quad Cores: iMac or Mac Pro?
Apple Releases New iMacs - good enough for video editing?
Apple Announces New 12 core Macs….for $5000
I went and saw nitrate prints and Soderbergh on the same evening…
Arri Alexa - look out Red!
Mike’s iPad rant-good device, bogus marketing
The Return of Blogwad
Aperture 3.01 update released, update on my iPhoto ‘09 migration
Another good article on color correction from Stu
On iPhoto to Aperture 3 migration difficulties and new hard drives
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Sunday, May 01, 2011

Mike finally gets to play with an Epic-M and HDRx

First impressions, what works, digging into HDRx

This week my friend Eric Ulbrich that I met while working on the SCCE (Single Chip Camera Evaluation) got his Epic-M. He was nice enough to invite me over to play with it on Friday, here’s some first impressions on the camera and its HDRx mode. Notes and pics follow.

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Cameras
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ProVideo Coalition • (1) Comments • Most recent comments by: RC Fisher, Permalink


Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Apple Announces New 12 core Macs….for $5000

Coming in August, starting at $5000….ouch!

The good news - Apple today announced new 12 core Macs that are up to 1 1/2 times faster than the current speedy Nehalem 8 core Macs.

The bad news - “Coming August” and starting at $5000*

So after the jump for the full info and breakdown.

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Editing
Hardware
Post Production
Final Cut Pro • (5) Comments • Most recent comments by: Mike Curtis, mikeburton, Paul Conigliaro, Synaptic Light, IEBA, Permalink


Friday, November 21, 2008

TRULY native Red support in Final Cut Studio…finally!

Well, rewrappered QTs - as native as P2 is…

Apple and Red have teamed up to support native (OK, rewrapped QTs, akin to how P2 is handled) .R3D support in Final Cut Pro 6.0.5 and Color 1.0.3. Red has a plugin to work with those new versions, including access to the 12 bit RGB data within Color…even letting you manipulate exposure, white balance, etc. on the native R3Ds in a 32 bit floating point space. Keep reading for either:

a.) to understand WTH all that means, or

b.) all the gory details if you do

....after the jump.

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Cameras
Post Production • (9) Comments • Most recent comments by: mikeburton, billS, mgilna, Scott Simmons, Permalink


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