Mark your calendar: Saturday, June 7th, at 2:45pm, in the Sherry Lansing Theater at Paramount. Adam Wilt and I will spend an hour discussing “The Sony F55: Swiss Army Knife of Cameras.” We’ve got videos to show and slides to…
This is a sponsored message from LG Electronics. In the world of 16:9 monitors, those who needed more screen space to get their work done had to be creative… by putting two monitors together and letting the CPU handle it.…
[Updates 22 July 2014: Audio Buzz fix; 14 June 2014: dynamic range is 11+ stops; details to come in a follow-up report. 17 May 2014: added another video link; clarified dynamic range estimates (~7 stops ungraded, ~10 stops if you stretch…
Due to the success of last year’s lighting class Abel Cine has asked me to come back and do it again. So I am: “How to Light Faces: Hard Light, Soft Light and Damage Control” It will be held on…
Last Wednesday, Videofax in San Francisco hosted Arri’s Snehal Patel, who showed off Amira, “the new documentary-style camera” with the heart of an Alexa. Amira is a tasty package: backlit physical switches and controls, so it’s tactile like a broadcast…
A gaffer once called me a “picky lighter.” I take pride in that designation, but I also take pride in working fast. Here’s a new soft light trick I’ve been thinking about. I have one goal when it comes to…
Adobe has announced a major update to Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC and Media Encoder CC. As expected, there are many under-the-hood improvements that affect Mercury Engine and now Mercury Transmit, but the incredible thing for me about this upgrade is that Premiere…
Rather than bloviate, I’ll just fling the pertinent slides at you: Interestingly, the GH4 wasn’t discussed. It appeared unheralded on a single slide, but wasn’t a topic of discussion, though it’s on the booth. Disclosure: There is no material relation…
Among other announcements at the TVLogic press conference was this new 5.5″ camera-top monitor, the VFM-058W. It builds on the widely-used VFM-056W with several useful enhancements: Full 1920×1080 resolution. This is the trend even for the smallest monitors; it won’t…
Black Magic Designs introduced the new URSA Camera Line at NAB 2014. This new Cinema Production Platform comes in four configurations and according to Black Magic CEO Grand Petty this is the worlds smallest broadcast camera with the worlds biggest…