CAMERAS: Food Fights with the FS700

When Adam Wilt and I shot “Fire and Ice” together on a prototype FS700 we had no idea that it would be shown at NAB… and that it would be hit. We wanted to do more, so we pitched Sony a commercial concept for a local company that involved high speed “veggie baseball.” Guess what: they sent us an FS700 again. Edible baseball never looked so good.

How to get good production dialogue

Here’s a short and sweet video with a tip on the best way to get good production dialogue audio from your talent. Watch below.

The HPA Tech Retreat, Technology’s Leading Edge

I attended this year’s Hollywood Post Alliance retreat that touted the theme “Snowflake Workflows”. In this episode of “The Terence & Philip Show” we cover some of the more interesting things I learned there.

Besides covering some cool new technology previews, we had a side discussion on how disruptive technologies often come out of the consumer divisions of the large conglomerates rather than their professional product division.

So click below and join the conversation.

CAMERA MATH: The Importance of Ratios

I remember very little math from my high school days, but what I do remember are the tricks that I was able to apply to my daily life. One formula, determining ratios, has served me better than any other. Here’s how I’m using this formula to create custom frame lines for an upcoming web banner shoot.

NAB 2012: Motion Control Systems - CamBLOCK

I’d already heard about CamBLOCK before NAB, and sought out some information, but I never expected them to come seeking ME at NAB.

Lowel Prime LED Lights

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RHED Pixel producer Pamela Berry talks with Lowel about their location lighting solution.

For broadcast news, “Starbucks is the new microwave!”

If you’re involved in traditional broadcast news, you know that the most popular established way to send your urgent remote stories back to the TV station is via microwave. For those unfamiliar, I’m not talking about a microwave oven, but a microwave transmitter often installed inside of a news van (OB truck), and often with a parabolic antenna on top. At NAB 2012, a recurring theme was: “Starbucks is the new microwave!” or some variation thereof, for urgent (but not live) news packages. Of course, if you’re in broadcast news in Colombia, South America, then the phrase might be: “¡Juan Valdez es mi nuevo transmisor microonda!”. Obviously, this refers to the free WiFi service available at Starbucks (at least in their USA locations) and at Juan Valdez in Colombia, together with the comfort of editing (optionally) and uploading raw news footage or edited packages from a very cozy environment. Let’s review a couple of such examples from NAB, and compare Internet café WiFi upload speeds to that of “4G” LTE in the USA.

Canon Confirms 5D Mark III and 1DX will NOT Get Clean HDMI Out

ProVideo Coalition - Canon - NAB 2012 from RHED Pixel on Vimeo.

Canon’s Chuck Westfall discusses what’s new in DSLR video.  He also confirms what the fate is for HDMI output on some Canon cameras.

Richard Harrington owns a Canon 7D and is thinking Nikon may have fewer limitations these days.

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