It is unusual when marketing hype matches reality; more so when “full HD” is the primary selling point. After spending ten days evaluating Panasonic’s recently released HDC-TM700, I’ve had a change of heart — due in part to one new and one improved selling point. The 3MOS 1/4-inch cam is a half step faster than [...]
The release of Adobe’s Production Premium CS5 bundle brings a refined interface, dozens of under-the-hood improvements and several “wow” features to the integrated application suite. This series of reviews will evaluate what is new, improved, and useful in CS5 Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, and onLocation CS5 Mac with video professionals in mind. Also in the [...]
In the first two parts to this series we detailed how to create a bootable Mac OS X install hard drive, and include disc images of pro apps installer DVDs and other programs on it. In part three, we identify a user’s data files, custom files and presets, and folders that should be copied to [...]
Introduction. We saw in part one of this multi-part series the procedure for creating a bootable USB2/Firewire hard disc drive containing the OS X installers. That tutorial can be accessed here or here. In this installment, we will utilize a similar procedure to create DMG images of your application install DVD/CDs.
Although this task takes several [...]
Canon has announced the pending release of a firmware update for the EOS 5D Mark II to add 24p video acquisition and to change the 30p video frame rate to 29.97 to comply with TV production standards. Manual audio level control is now available which increases the audio sampling frequency to 48KHz from 44.1KHz. It [...]
Several internet sites sell royalty free video footage in high and standard definition formats in a variety of categories. Artbeats, for example, sells excellent quality individual clips or in collections in various categories, but at a premium price. An upcoming review here will evaluate HD and SD footage provided by a company in various categories for [...]
Cinedeck has announced for Spring delivery a new direct to edit (DTE) device that records to solid state RAID drives, doubles as a camera mountable color accurate field video monitor, and facilitated simple editing for the captured video. The entire device is packaged in a 4″x5″x8″ unit. It records 10-bit 4:2:2 or 12-bit 4:4:4 files [...]
Panasonic Broadcast has introduced a single-slot P2 solid-state memory card drive, the AJ-PCD2. Joining the company’s growing line of P2 workflow tools, the PCD2, with two USB 2.0 cables supplied, requires no separate power supply for file transfers and offers total compatibility with Mac and Windows desktop and laptop computers.
In contrast to other single-slot [...]
Software developer app4mac is now shipping Sequence 2.5, an update to the company’s screenshots and screencasts capture for Mac OS X. New in version 2.5 is support for background processing, a new menubar icon to launch the app, improved audio management, updated user interface, support for USB microphones, new video formats including [...]
Canon has entered the pre-beta stage of a plug-in to facilitate easy transfer of video footage captured on one of its EOS DSLR digital stills into Final Cut Pro.
The plug-in will utilize Final Cut Pro’s ‘log and transfer’ modal box to transfer footage captured from the 5D Mark II, the 7D and the EOS-1D Mark [...]