Posted by:
gary
September 1, 2010 9:30 AM
I think it's time to start talking more about one of the most cost effective tools you can add to your HD video editing arsenal - the Matrox MXO2 Mini. There are lots of great features in this mighty mite, and I'm going to use this article to tell you all about them. We've had great success in the past using an FAQ format to better explain new products and technology, so we'll keep at it now. ( Read More)
Posted by:
gary
August 17, 2010 9:26 AM
Adobe has added the “Mercury” engine to CS5 for increased performance in Premiere Pro by using Nvidia’s CUDA graphics processing features. This is great work and can be useful in many ways. In fact CineForm may consider using CUDA in the future for some of our non-compression Active Metadata processing. A common question we get is – should I use CUDA or NeoScene for AVCHD content? ( Read More)
Posted by:
gary
August 16, 2010 10:50 AM
Join Dave Helmly as he walks you through a complete workflow for 3D Stereoscopic editing in PremierePro CS5. In this 60 minute tour , Dave will cover various rigs, 3D viewing options, Realtime editing, and export ( Read More)
Posted by:
gary
July 28, 2010 9:38 AM
With Avid’s support of third-party QuickTime codecs in Media Composer 5, more and more filmmakers are choosing CineForm as their online and master codec. The question has come up of how to render CineForm MOVs out of MC5, and here’s a quick tutorial to answer that! ( Read More)
Posted by:
gary
May 27, 2010 12:53 PM
Music-Video Vet Don Wilson Managed a Stereo Workflow for Final Cut Pro
When Action 3D Productions hired an editor to cut the concert film Phish 3D, it made sense that they’d go to Don Wilson's Americana Media. Wilson is an Emmy-winning producer-director-editor whose experience in the industry stretches back to the early days of MTV, when he was cutting promo clips for any number of top-tier acts.
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Posted by:
gary
April 7, 2010 4:30 PM
In this article, I'm going to illustrate how our studio dealt with footage from a multiday shoot using AVCHD cameras (along with a mix of HDV and DV), resulting in a long-form DVD for '80s pop legend and General Hospital alumnus Rick Springfield.
The signature benefit of AVCHD is its compression efficiency as an MPEG-4-based codec, which means it can store more video information at lower bitrates than HDV. But as most of who have worked with it know, AVCHD can be a bear to edit, and the cha (Read More)
Posted by:
gary
March 30, 2010 3:46 PM
For the past 25 years we have been helping customers like you and now we're here to help you get the best & most efficient video editing workflow with your new DSLR!
The past year has been an interesting one in the camcorder market. We have seen more consumer models move towards HD resolutions and watched an influx of new devices for direct video to the web. The professional camcorder market has also changed dramatically and there has been a revolution of sorts combining professional video w (Read More)
Posted by:
gary
March 18, 2010 11:05 PM
While we wait for AMA support of AVCHD there is an improvement that I found that some may know but I thought I would share it here for those that missed it.
Step one - Convert AVCHD (.mts etc.) file to avi using Cineform Neo Scene. This $100 product is gaining alot of attention because other NLEs are beginning to support the Cineform Codec natively. This works with cameras like the Canon 5D/7D too. It converts the color space to 4:2:2, handles 24p correctly and is considered visually lo (Read More)
Posted by:
gary
March 8, 2010 2:49 PM
If Gebbs Wedding Films' Michael Gebben didn't have a strict personal policy against selling clients on technology, you can bet he'd be bragging about the two most significant additions to his arsenal he's made recently: Canon's 5D Mark II and EOS 7D DSLRs. For Gebben, a rising industry star whose demo was recently selected for use in the nationally syndicated TV show Wedlock or Deadlock, these so-called fusion cameras have made his already great-looking same day edits (SDEs)-his studio's special ( Read More)
Posted by:
gary
February 17, 2010 12:41 PM
Buying a Canon 7D is a smart move well done, don't second guess yourself with, should I have got the new 550/T2i for half the price? The Canon 7D can do so much more on the photo side and it is tried and tested on the video side, there has to be some downside to a new camera for half the price. ( Read More)
Posted by:
gary
February 8, 2010 2:38 PM
Besides all the advantages and possibilities shooting with a HDSLR offers, there are some major drawbacks. For me the biggest problems are: rolling shutter (but even the red has it), no audio control and the too contrasty, over-compressed, 4:2:0 h264 output. You can create or download a “flat-look” profile for your camera, which basically eliminates contrast by lifting blacks and crushing highlights when the camera sensor processes the image before compressing it. After playing around and testin ( Read More)
Posted by:
gary
January 14, 2010 11:48 AM
It's hard to believe another year has gone by. I think 2009 was one of the most challenging years for our industry. The troubled US economy created budget problems for videographers, video editors and producers on every level. In today's economy every Penney counts and before we invest in new technology, we have to be sure of the benefits.
In 2009 Tapeless camcorders started dominating the landscape, at every level of video production, each with their own unique wrinkles and complexity. Th (Read More)
Posted by:
matt
January 12, 2010 4:03 PM
It's hard to believe another year has gone by. I think 2009 was one of the most challenging years for our industry. The troubled US economy created budget problems for videographers, video editors and producers on every level. In today's economy every Penney counts and before we invest in new technology, we have to be sure of the benefits.
In 2009 Tapeless camcorders started dominating the landscape, at every level of video production, each with their own unique wrinkles and complexity. The (Read More)
Posted by:
gary
January 12, 2010 11:07 AM
CineForm Neo3D and its First Light 3D engine have been selected by Intel to showcase the power of the
Intel® Core™ i7 processor during the Intel CEO’s keynote presentation at the Consumer Electronics
Show (CES) 2010 this week in Las Vegas.
“CES 2010 will be center stage for Intel to demonstrate the raw horsepower of the Intel Core i7 chip
architecture, and to do this, they will be tapping some of the most compute intensive, complex and
visually exciting technologies from the 3D movie pro (Read More)
Posted by:
gary
November 20, 2009 10:44 AM
Recommendations for Videographers & Editors at Every Price!
In these difficult economic times the one thing that is on everyone's mind is savings and value. We've kept that in mind with this year's Videoguys' Holiday Gift Guide. We've broken the guide into several categories that I think will help make your holiday shopping easier: Gizmos & Gadgets, Blu-ray Disc Authoring, Upgrades, Hardware, Plug-Ins, and Training.
We realize that many of you are shopping for yourselves, but that doesn't ( Read More)
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