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Featured Article: CasparCG Q&A and World Cup case study

We mentioned CasparCG earlier this year, it's a free broadcast play-out server that offers a mature and stable featureset rivaling commercial packages costing many thousands of dollars. Recently they also posted a short case study on how CasparCG was used to play live World Cup graphics, and they even made those templates freely available for testing on your own CasparCG server. Very cool, and ...

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Featured Article: Conversations with Filmmakers - Bandito Brothers and Shane Hurlbut

FreshDV recently had the chance to meet with a group of Los Angeles-based filmmakers that are at the forefront of the DSLR filmmaking revolution. In collaboration with Bandito Brothers (the creative group behind the amazing doc "Dust to Glory"), seasoned cinematographer Shane Hurlbut has been breaking new ground in DSLR filmmaking for some time now. Bandito is currently in post-production on the Navy ...

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DSLR vs Red vs HPX vs EX1 low light performance comparison

September 2nd, 2010 by: Matthew Jeppsen

Let me tell you, I love me some Adam Wilt. His no-nonsense honest approach to testing is second-to-none, and this article on sensor low-light performance is ...

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4K concept camera and other news from Canon Expo

September 1st, 2010 by: Matthew Jeppsen

Phillip Bloom is at Canon Expo this week, and has posted some pictures and preliminary reports from the event. Canon is showing off a 4K camera ...

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Use Cinema Tools to make smooth slow motion from 60p DSLR footage

September 1st, 2010 by: Matthew Jeppsen

If you don't know how to use Cinema Tools to "conform" your 60p Canon T2i or 7D footage to your editing framerate (23.98 fps or 29.97 fps, ...

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Rarevision 5DtoRGB coddles your delicate H.264 DSLR footage

August 30th, 2010 by: Matthew Jeppsen

Rarevision's 5DtoRGB tool is making the blog rounds this week, and it looks rather amazing. Here's a quick summary of the tool and links to ...

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Canon 5D MarkII Dynamic Range Test

August 30th, 2010 by: Matthew Jeppsen

I hear it all the time...complete novices and non-techies look at the image from a Canon DSLR and say something to the effect of "I don't know ...

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After Effects Rotobrush Tutorial

August 29th, 2010 by: Matthew Jeppsen

At NAB 2010, one of the coolest new features in After Effects was the Rotobrush. We got a peek at Rotobrush in our video coverage of ...

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Redrock Launches Ops - Camo up your support rig

August 29th, 2010 by: Matthew Jeppsen

Today at Shane Hurlbut's HDSLR workshop, Brian Valente and the Redrock crew surprised Shane with a ...

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I’m a live guest on Jtown.tv tonight

August 19th, 2010 by: Matthew Jeppsen

Just a reminder, I'll be on Jesse Miller's live video show tonight at 6:30pm Eastern time. That's in under 2hrs from now. Tune in to watch ...

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Redrock Micro announces new line of nano DSLR rigs

August 19th, 2010 by: Matthew Jeppsen

Redrock Micro has announced a new line of DSLR support rigs, the "nano" line. These are compact solutions aimed at the handheld DSLR user. And they ...

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