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Mike CurtisMike 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 - CamBLOCKTop Ten Trends of NAB 2012Arri Booth NAB 2012BlackMagic 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-XCanon’s new EOS C300 digital cinema line - competition for Red or Sony?Single Chip Camera Evaluation screening tomorrow morning at CineGearCome see my footage from F3 S-log & Leica Summilux-C lenses TONIGHT at CineGearMike finally gets to play with an Epic-M and HDRxMike’s NAB 2011 Day One Part OneComing to NAB? Come see results of our 12 camera test Tuesday nightYo, 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 $5000I went and saw nitrate prints and Soderbergh on the same evening…Arri Alexa - look out Red!Mike’s iPad rant-good device, bogus marketingThe Return of BlogwadAperture 3.01 update released, update on my iPhoto ‘09 migrationAnother good article on color correction from StuOn iPhoto to Aperture 3 migration difficulties and new hard drives
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Single Chip Camera Evaluation screening tomorrow morning at CineGearThe 12 cameras you might shoot on compared in depth - dynamic range, resolution, rolling shutter, skin tones, etc.
I was the post supervisor on the SCCE (Single Chip Camera Evaluation) for the past several months - we shot on 12 cameras (Alexa, film, F35, Red, AF100, Sony F3, Phantom Flex, Weisscam HS-2, Canon 1D MkIV, 7D, 5D Mk II, and Nikon D7000), and ran them through an extensive battery of tests - sharpness, sensitivity, over and underexposure latitude, low light performance, compression artifacts, color reproduction, skin tones, and the best shutter artifacts test I’ve ever seen. Saturday June 4th at 10:15am. more »Come see my footage from F3 S-log & Leica Summilux-C lenses TONIGHT at CineGearI shot world class Arabian stallions on an F3 in S-log on the best lenses I’ve ever used. Come see it tonight.
If you’re in LA and a shooter, you should come to CineGear. And while you’re there, come see me talk about my shoot with the F3 in S-log mode shot on Leica Summilux-C lenses - perhaps the best lenses EVER. more »
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Mike finally gets to play with an Epic-M and HDRxFirst 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. more »
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Mike’s NAB 2011 Day One Part OneI visited Blackmagic, AJA, Red, Arri, Canon, Fujinon, Abel Cinetech, and others Hey all! I’m here at NAB and am wandering the show checking out what interests me. My coverage will be based on what I saw in the order I saw it. Today I visited: Blackmagic Design, AJA, Red, Arri, Canon, Abel Cine, and Sony. So here we go: more »
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Advertisement Coming to NAB? Come see results of our 12 camera test Tuesday nightSCCE=Single Chip Camera Evaluation - all the cameras you’d care about on Tuesday
Hey all - One of the (many) reasons I haven’t been writing lately has been I’ve been up to my neck in the SCCE. What’s that? The Single Chip Camera Evaluation. Zacuto started the idea and Bob Primes ASC designed and supervised all the testing. I was one of the planner/organizers, as well as post supervisor and ran around and did a bunch of stuff on set. Tuesday night, 6-8 pm Content Theater. Here’s the press release after the jump: more »
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Yo, Creative Pros—Apple Doesn’t Love You Any More. Here’s why.Not the way they used to - like the ascendant rock star’s old girlfriend, we are yesterday’s news
After writing this piece on whether Apple lamed out on the new Mac Pros, I got to thinking more about Apple and where we, as creative professionals lie in their priority list. Read that article for a detailed analysis of how Apple wasn’t aggressive with new technology, was late to market, skipped a bunch of new technology, and MIGHT potentially have decided to stiff-arm Adobe with the lack of NVIDIA GPUs at user expense. So where do we rank with Apple these days? Lets look at their motivations and actions. more »
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Did Apple actually lame out on the new Mac Pros?FW1600/3200, PCI 3.0, 10GigE, eSATA, NVIDIA, Blu-ray, 1st to market, $3500 “Big Macs” - wherefore art thou?
Apple rolled out new Mac Pros Tuesday, so of course I wrote about’em. Impressed by the power at first, after the warm fuzzy glow of new Macs wore off, I started noticing some things. Or rather, noticing some things that weren’t there - PCI 3.0, USB 3.0, eSATA, faster FireWire, 10GigE networking, Blu-ray burners, NVIDIA GPUs, and a $3500 price point for the “Big Mac.” What gives? Read on for what Apple giveth and taketh. more »
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New Quad Cores: iMac or Mac Pro?As an editor, should you get an iMac or Mac Pro? How different in price and performance?
New Quad core Macs: high end iMac or low end Mac Pro? Apple today announced new Mac Pros (coming sometime in August) and new iMacs (available now). Both have available Quad Core (4 processor) models. The iMac has a built in screen which the Mac Pro lacks, but the tower has scads of easy expandability. Which to buy? Read on for the deets and analysis. more »
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My lengthy Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 review now online
Studio Daily posted the review last week after pounding the thing on a number of edits
Last week Studio Daily published my Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 review. It’s a longie but a goodie as I tried to go into detail about what I really like and what I kinda don’t like about this brand new Premiere Pro. I had been pounding it hard on several projects before writing the review. I have had a few questions about exactly what kind of jobs I’ve been working on with it.
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