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Featured Article: NAB 2008 - Redrock microMattebox Video Podcast

One year ago at NAB 2007, Redrock Micro showed off a pre-production version of their forthecoming mattebox system. Quite honestly they promised a host of features unheard of at an affordable price point. This was a tall order, and we were cautiously hopeful that they would be able to deliver everything as promised. Now a year later, Redrock is showing off their finished mattebox system, and we believe that it is everything they ...

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Featured Article: Using A Light Meter as Cinematographer

In the past we have walked through how to setup and calibrate a light meter with a given video camera, but once that's done now what? Just walk around and randomly spout f-stops? While that may appear cool its not a very productive approach. As I mentioned in the original tutorial metering is mostly a carry over from film and while video cameras over much more intuitive tools such as histograms, waveforms, and ...

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IDX Cam-Wave HD cuts the HD-SDI cables

May 8th, 2008 by: Matthew Jeppsen

One of the announcements we weren't able to personally cover at NAB was ...

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Prerequisites for Independent Film Distribution Success

May 8th, 2008 by: Matthew Jeppsen

Norman Hollyn has an excellent summary of a recent Hollywood Reporter article on indie film distribution. The article is a roundtable with industry players David Ansen, Kirk ...

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fxguide Red Camera Podcast with Graeme Nattress

May 8th, 2008 by: Matthew Jeppsen

fxguide has launched a new podcast series focusing on Red Digital Cinema called Red Centre. Episode #4 is an interview with Red guru Graeme Nattress. ...

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FreshDV Review: Cinevate Ballare Dolly

May 1st, 2008 by: Matthew Jeppsen

We recently had the opportunity to check out Cinevate's Ballare dolly solution. The Ballare is almost entirely ...

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AJA Kona 6.0 Adds Red-Specific Output Formats

May 1st, 2008 by: Matthew Jeppsen

Via Reduser comes this note on new features for Kona card users:"...AJA Video is adding RED-specific video outputs for some of the unique frame sizes that ...

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FCP Tip: Cutting to the Beat of Music

April 30th, 2008 by: Matthew Jeppsen

Via Zoom-in Online comes this quick tip on automatically matching images to song beat points (well, more or less automatically). Watch the video tip here.

Cellphone Projectors

April 29th, 2008 by: Matthew Jeppsen

A company called Microvision is working with Motorola and others to integrate "Pico" projector tech into mobile devices like cellphones. Devices are apparently in the works, ...

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Adobe CS3 Interview from NAB ‘08

April 29th, 2008 by: Matthew Jeppsen

Zoom-in has a short audio interview with Adobe's Hart Shafer from the NAB expo floor. They talk specifically about the integration within Adobe Production Premium CS3.

CoreMelt ImageFlow and PolyChrome Plugins for FCP

April 29th, 2008 by: Matthew Jeppsen

Around NAB CoreMelt announced new plugin packages for FCP and After Effects Mac; ImageFlow Fx 1.12 and CoreMelt transitions. ImageFlow Fx is a set of plugins ...

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Million Dollar Look, $1000 Budget Bootleg NAB Keynote

April 28th, 2008 by: Matthew Jeppsen

One of the fantastic panels at NAB 2008 was the A Million Dollar Look on a Thousand Dollar Budget Super Session that featured Stu Maschwitz, Dave Basulto, ...

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