Blog Posts For The ‘HD Video’ Category



 DSLR Filmmaking Post Workflows Webinar Extra Questions Answered

  By Scott Simmons

Scott Simmons answer many more questions that were not answered during our DSLR Filmmaking Post Workflows webinar. He gets very detailed and in-depth. A must read for any DSLR filmmaker.

 
 

 Magic Bullet Grinder Grinds Your DSLR Footage Into A More Editable Format

  By Scott Simmons

Red Giant Software has just dropped a new tool into the family of Magic Bullet products and it might be of great interest to the DSLR shooter. Magic Bullet Grinder.

 
 

 DSLRs For Filmmakers – One DPs Perspective

  By James Mathers

So what are some of the pros and cons of using DSLRs for Cinematography? For the purposes of comparison, I will consider the Canon 5D Mark II, the model which has so far gotten the most traction for motion photography.

 
 

 Save, Revert, Restore in Final Cut Pro – Oh My!

  By Diana Weynand

In the Final Cut Pro File menu, there are 5 different options you can use to either save your changes in open projects or bring a project back to life. Let’s take a closer look at these options.

 
 

 Minimum Specs To Successfully Run Autodesk Smoke on Mac OSX

  By Barry Goch

Event though Autodesk lists some heavy specs required for Smoke on Mac there are ways to run Smoke on Mac with a much less powerful machine.

 
 

 Using X264 Plugin In Compressor

  By Andy Beach

I admit it, I’ve had a love hate relationship with Compressor pretty much since day one. I love the convenience of having an app tied directly to the timeline for encoding, but have always felt a little disappointed by the options and quality of what was offered for encoding that it offered.

 
 

 The World Goes 3D

  By Steve Wright

One of the most stunning trends I observed at the April NAB in Las Vegas is how rapidly the whole world has gone 3D. Everywhere you looked – editing systems, compositing programs, color timing systems, display systems – the 3D production workflow was being supported.

 
 

 Multimedia File Analyzer For The Mac

  By Andy Beach

When you encode video for a living, you invariably spend a chunk of time trying to reverse engineer the work of others. How the heck did they make that trailer? What makes that You Tube clip look so good.

 
 

 CES Shows Us The Future Of New Media

  By Marcelo Lewin

If you look at all the press releases and announcements coming out of CES, they all seem to be related to “Web videos” or “Internet Apps”. The convergence of home entertainment systems and the web is finally happening and it’s happening very quickly.

 
 

 Canon Announces The New EOS 7D Video…Err…Photography Camera

  By Marcelo Lewin

Canon announced today the release of the new Canon EOS 7D, which shoots 30P, 24P and 25P…oh yeah…and it shoots 18 megapixels photographs at ISO speeds of 100 to 6400 expandable to 12,800.