Video

NAB Video - Cameras

Sony SRW-9000 PL, Aaton Penelope Digital, and the GoPro Hero.

By Adam Wilt | April 21, 2010

From the sublime to the silly... high-end digital cine cameras, and a $300 crash cam, along with the sorts of footage it shoots.900x506 QuickTime movie, 1 Mbit/sec h.264. Read More

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NAB Video - Camera Support

Sliders and Stabilizers

By Adam Wilt | April 21, 2010

Several camera sliders, and Cinevate's prototype small camera stabilizer system.900x506 QuickTime movie, 1 Mbit/sec h.264. Read More

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NAB Video - microRemote

Redrock Micro's remote lens controller.

By Adam Wilt | April 21, 2010

Redrock Micro's Brian Valenti shows off the new microRemote and microTape.Click here to see Adam's video about the Redrock microRemote and microTape (900x506 QuickTime movie, 1 Mbit/sec h.264). Read More

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NAB Video - Lighting

LED fresnels, dedolight innards, active diffusion, and a wet HMI.

By Adam Wilt | April 21, 2010

LitePanels LED fresnels (yes, that's Rodney Charters fiddling with the Sola6); why dedolights make light the way they do; zylight's Active Diffusion panels, and K5600's very damp HMI.Click here to see Adam's video about lighting goodies at NAB 2010 (900x506 QuickTime movie, 1 Mbit/sec h.264). Read More

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NAB Video - DSLRs

All sorts of fiddly bits to outfit your DSLR for digital filmmaking.

By Adam Wilt | April 21, 2010

Support gear for DSLRs as seen (mostly, but not entirely) at the Zacuto booth.Click here to see Adam's video about DSLR goodies at NAB 2010 (900x506 QuickTime movie, 1 Mbit/sec h.264). Read More

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NAB Video - Doddle

A quick demo of the doddle iPhone app.

By Adam Wilt | April 21, 2010

Doddle is a mobile production guide: a website and an iPhone app for finding crew and resources, and managing call sheets. Mobile Imagination's Sean Smith takes us through the basics. Read More

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NAB Video - Cinedeck

A quick demo of the Cinedeck user interface.

By Adam Wilt | April 21, 2010

Cinedeck is a video recorder built into a 7" monitor. Here's how it works.Click here to see Adam's video about the Cinedeck's user interface (900x506 QuickTime movie, 1 Mbit/sec h.264). Read More

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NAB Video - Cameras

Sony SRW-9000 PL, Aaton Penelope Digital, and the GoPro Hero.

By Adam Wilt | April 21, 2010

From the sublime to the silly... high-end digital cine cameras, and a $300 crash cam, along with the sorts of footage it shoots.Click here to see Adam's video about cameras at NAB 2010 (900x506 QuickTime movie, 1 Mbit/sec h.264). Read More

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NAB Video - Camera Support

Sliders and Stabilizers

By Adam Wilt | April 21, 2010

Several camera sliders, and Cinevate's prototype small camera stabilizer system.Click here to see Adam's video about camera support systems at NAB 2010 (900x506 QuickTime movie, 1 Mbit/sec h.264). Read More

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TecnoTur’s new English audio channel is live in iTunes

First English episode includes the NewTek TCXD300 and a conversation with Elements Post in Connecticut, USA

By Allan Tépper | April 20, 2010

We are glad to announce that TecnoTur's new English-language audio channel has joined the original Castilian-language one. Now, many other interested people -even those who don't speak Castilian- are able to become TecnoTuristas too, as well as being guests on the TecnoTur program. The TecnoTur program will continue to invite industry professionals from throughout the planet to be interviewed. Now, with the English channel, TecnoTur will expand both its number of listeners as well as its scope of interviewees. As of today, TecnoTur's new English channel is live on the iTunes store, and as with the original Castilian channel, listeners may subscribe -free of charge- to receive new episodes automatically in the iTunes application. It is also possible to listen to an individual episode without subscribing, or to subscribe to the RSS feed using other applications. The first English episode includes: Read More

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Citidisk CFR Flash Recorder

They Are On The Flash Memory Bandwagon...and More

By Bruce A Johnson | April 13, 2010

I've reviewed a lot of non-tape recording "solutions" in the past - some good, some lame. It's good to see Citidisk moving ahead in this space.

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A Fresnel Lens On An LED Light?

You Want To Know What Litepanels Is Thinking

By Bruce A Johnson | April 13, 2010

You can't swing a dead cat here at NAB without hitting LED lighting. What was an emerging trend last year is a full-fledged phenomenon this year. But 99% of the lights have one thing in common: They are open-faced - unless you are visiting the Litepanels booth. Read More

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How Fast Do You Want To Drive your Camera?

Filmotechnic Suggests You Keep It Under 60 MPH

By Bruce A Johnson | April 13, 2010

I've seen car camera mounts before, but this one is a whole new breed of cat. Read More

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NAB2010:  GoPro Goes Nuts

By Bruce A Johnson | April 13, 2010

The picture up there is the GoPro Hero: a waterproof, dustproof, armored full-HD video camera. That one is mounted on the nose of a surfboard, and let me tell you, the footage they showed of surfing, dirtbiking, auto racing, skiing and more is beautiful. And pretty effective, too - Read More

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NAB2010:  The Edit Monitor Of My Dreams

Bigger IS better...right?

By Bruce A Johnson | April 12, 2010

If you are like me, you can never have too much desktop to edit on. My problem is that I just can't stand the bezels interrupting the free flow of image from one monitor to the next in multi-monitor setups. I found a solution to this problem while I browsed through the B&H Photo/Video stand at NAB2010 - the Ostendo CDM43. It's a single curved screen, 40" wide by 12" high, which offers a native resolution of 2880x900, also known as Double WXGA+. While it isn't the brightest monitor in the world, it is a real treat to have almost 90 degrees of your field of view full of the information you need - and no black lines in the middle. The CDM43 lists for $6500, and can be found at bhphoto.com. Read More

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Look What I Found In The MGM Grand Monorail Station

Best Buy is EVERYWHERE.

By Bruce A Johnson | April 12, 2010

I hear vending machines like this are everywhere in Japan, but are really rare here in the States. So if you find yourself in Las Vegas with a sudden need for an iPod, some headphones or a USB memory key and all the other stores are closed, Best Buy Express to the rescue! Amazing. Read More

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NAB2010:  The CEO Of the NAB Speaks

Gordon Smith Lays Down The Law

By Bruce A Johnson | April 12, 2010

As a broadcaster, I'm always interested in what the NAB has up it's sleeve. And when someone throws a big party for you, it's just common courtesy to liosten to what they have to say.New NAB president Gordon Smith gave his first keynote address this morning, and he came out swinging against the forces that would diminish the over-the-air services in the US. After pointing out that he is a former Republican Senator in a staunchly Democratic DC, he acknowledged that he knows pilkotics inside and out: Read More

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NAB2010:  The Story Of The Number “3” And The Letter “D”

By Bruce A Johnson | April 12, 2010

I would have posted this last night, before NAB2010 actually started, but I refuse to pay the extortionate $13/day that hotels here think is their God-given right to collect for the same (or worse) Internet access that is free virtually anywhere else.In making the rounds of the Panasonic and Sony press conferences on Sunday, I was just dumbfounded to hear the breathless fawning over what is at best nascent 3-D television technology. In a country (the US) where only about 40% of people have invested in HDTVs so far, the cravenness of manufacturers expecting people to rip it all up and buy new equipment already is breathtaking. This is not to say that 3D can't be compelling - in the right hands, and with the right content, the effect is impressive - but let's not kid ourselves. It is just an EFFECT, after all. Have you have seen the recent Samsung 3-D TV ad where a dad cuts a block of water out of an aquarium, takes it home, pushes it into their HDTV and then the family is suddenly awash (ahem) in fully-immersive 3-D fish? That spot verges on fraud, IMHO. The 3-D effect is limited to the inside of the monitor's bezel. And lets face it, not all that much content out there deserves hi-def treatment, much less 3-D.Here's hoping that consumers recognize this latest gimmick as just that - a gimmick - and send the gear manufacturers (and their junkie enabler, the Consumer Electronics Association) the 2x4 to the head they so richly deserve.So am I too much of a curmudgeon? What do YOU think? Read More

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Rolling Shutter:  The Shutter Of The DAMNED!

These shots might make you look at your DSLR a little differently...

By Bruce A Johnson | April 05, 2010

I don't (yet) own a DSLR or a CMOS-based video camera, so to me rolling shutter controversy has been an abstraction at best. I was aware that many people (Anthony Burokas, particularly) often pointed out the curved moving lines CMOS generates in things like drumsticks and the like. But it wasn't until I saw this post on DVXUser by Barry Green that I had a real appreciation of how badly things can go when you combine CMOS and motion. Remind me not to take any prop-plane flights on CMOS Airlines! Read More

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T©pper is glad that the iPad doesn’t support Flash

The whiners need to wake up and understand the message that has already been written on the wall for over two years.

By Allan Tépper | April 05, 2010

I am glad that the iPad doesn't support Flash, and I hope it remains that way. I like efficiency, stability, security, omni-platform compatibility, direct search engine friendliness, truly open-standards, and long battery life. Back in 2008, I published Encoding web video in the age of the iPhone. Among many other topics, the 4-page article talked about how content producers are best served by steering clear of Flash-dependent media if they expect to have it be readable by what I called the fastest-growing computing device segment, which of course was -and still is- mobile devices. Since then, there has been exponential sales growth in that category, including iPhones, iPod Touches, multimedia Blackberries, and a handful of Android phones from several different manufacturers, including the recent Droid, Milestone, and Nexus One. On time for the iPad launch, some of the most important content producers in the world have understood the message that has been on the wall for over two years, and have already made themselves compatible with these Flash-free mobile devices, including Brightcove, CBS, CNN, ESPN, Facebook, Flickr, Major League Baseball, National Geographic, the National Hockey League, Netflix, Nike, NPR, People magazine, Reuters, Sports Illustrated, TED, The New York Times, Spin, Sports Illustrated, Time, the TWIT network, YouTube, Vimeo, Virgin America, and the White House. It's time for the whiners to stop complaining and get the message too. Despite some criticisms about certain details in their products (i.e. their current lack of SFTP support), I love Adobe, and I admire its past, present, and future developments. Flash is perhaps the only thing that we don't need anymore from Adobe, and that simply creates content that is unreadable on multiple millions of devices. My appreciation for Adobe should also be clear by my recent article called: Will Adobe's new Mercury technology provoke a sudden exodus from Final Cut Pro to CS5? Read More

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