Chris Hurd
Introducing SlingStudio: The new bar in professional-grade multi-camera production and live video broadcasting
One of the coolest things I saw at NAB2017.
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Chris Hurd
NAB Survival: Is It The Shoes?
At a four-day endurance match with the pedestrian brutality that constitutes NAB, the key word is comfort.
Chris Ward
My Path to iTunes and Beyond
The road to distribution for a low budget independent film is a long and winding one (to paraphrase Paul McCartney), yet we were able to get there. You can get there too, if you avoid the well placed land mines along the way.
Adam Wilt
Review: Panasonic VariCam LT 4K Super35mm Cine Camera
The VariCam LT is Panasonic’s “affordable” large single sensor VariCam, putting the core of the $55,000 VariCam 35 in a more compact package. The LT lists for $18,000 for the body alone, to $28,950 for a full shooting kit with EVF,…
Edward Troxel
What’s New in VEGAS Pro 14
Here At Last And Under New Ownership The Vegas world was excited in April 2014 with the release of Vegas Pro 13 at NAB. With a typical release at NAB or IBC, everyone was waiting for an announcement in April…
DVi Guest
Shooting A Dope Show
Cinematographer Charles Papert creates magic tricks with the VariCam 35 for MTV’s Mary + Jane In MTV’s new scripted series, Mary + Jane, best friends Paige and Jordan (Jessica Rothe and Scout Durwood) navigate the trials and tribulations of being…
Adam Wilt
Thoughts on the Panavision Millenium DXL
On the first of June, Panavision introduced the new Millenium DXL to the world with a showing at the ASC Clubhouse followed by an evening event at Light Iron. Art Adams and I attended the latter, and all my photos are…
Adam Wilt
Wi-Fi WFM: Turn your iPhone into an engineering monitor
Shameless commercial message: I’ve developed a new iPhone app, Wi-Fi WFM. It takes the wireless feed from a Teradek Cube, Clip, or VidiU and displays its picture along with a waveform monitor, vectorscope, and/or histogram. Background: Teradek H.264 encoders take camera feeds and send…
Adam Wilt
Review: Lighting Passport spectrometers
Breakfast foods grow odder and odder: It’s a wise child that knows its own fodder. — Ogden Nash, “Snap, Crackle, Pop” As with foods, so with lights: between LEDs, HMIs, plasmas, and fluorescents, it’s hard to know exactly what you’re…
Adam Wilt
NAB 2016 Thoughts
Despite being a demo-dog for DSC Labs for most of NAB, I did manage to get around and see a few new toys and/or discuss things with those who did. Herewith, a slightly disjointed tour of timely topics, plus some…