Mike over at HD For Indies put up an incredibly long post including a ton of links with information about RED. Getting ready to leave this shoot in Iowa now, but I’ll probably spend the week digging though it! The cameras ship today, oh joyous day!
The AJ-HDP2000 processor uses JPEG2000 compression, the same compression scheme specified by the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI) for cinema release, to convert film to digital data for subsequent processing in advanced DI environments while maintaining its core resolution. The processor’s advanced encoder ensures that images remain faithful throughout the recording process, minimizes distortion and resolution degradation, and offers optimized bit rate control and increased error tolerance for reliable interchange required in editing.
Hmmm…. Sweet….
I recently shot a short film for director Michael Fisher, entitled SHELL. The film was shot approximately 2 weeks ago with an HVX using a Redrock M2 adapter and some sweet Zeiss lenses that I had previously blogged about. The film is up online now so please take a look and feel free to leave comments! I’ll be writing more in the coming weeks regarding the techinical aspects of it.
After perusing some magazines, blogs and online communties I’ve been incredibly angered by inaccurate information provided by people with the improper mental facilities to review or describe what they are talking about. I had almost forgotten a few instances that i had wanted to blog about until I came upon this 2 month old article moments ago. Granted this article isn’t necessarily wrong, it is just retarded, biased and uniformed. People with adversions to new technology and changes in workflow shouldn’t be given endorsement from reputable sources for their opinions. Bloggers have some sort of unspoken freedom to be wrong on occasion, mostly due to that many blog about opinions but also because noone is paying them or endorsing them to blog, but people who right reviews for websites. magazines and industry journals, which professionals turn to for informtion, should be held to higher standards.
Now I’m motivated to go back through and dig out one such instance I ran into recently. Ooh, luckily thanks to the digital revolution the article is also available online so we can oogle together!!!
While reading this review in Digital Content Producer, I was taken aback when I reached the portion of the Final Cut Studio review that focuses on Compressor. Jan Ozer opens the section by stating “Compressor has always been amorphous to me - hard to get my arms around.” What the Fuck? Who in their right mind puts any stock in a review of an application that is written by an author who admits up front they have no idea what they are doing with it? What kind of quality control does Digital Content Producer have that they allow this to go out? Are they that hard up for writers? The section on Compressor also cites compressor’s “reputation for glacial encodes” and then goes on to cite a chart of tests against Episode pro where Compressor is the fastest in 3 out of 4 tests.
I’m thinking, “This is rediculous” , then I look back a page at the opening paragraph. “For this review, I’ll touch Final Cut Studio 2 where I live and practice in the world of DV and HDV — not uncompressed HD and 4K — with an emphasis on getting long-form tutorials, weddings, and concerts done efficiently and well, rather than wreaking the last bit of potential creativity from a well-funded 60-second spot or full-length movie.”
So this article is being written by someone who uses DV footage all the time to shoot weddings and botmitzvahs? No wonder the magazine is free. I find that people who use strictly DV, and maybe a little HDV and know nothing about the actual ins and outs of standards make up 99% of Final Cut Owners. The other 1% are people that are actually editors and weren’t upset by that comment. I find that the majority of people that present themselves to others as editors don’t know what the fuck they are talking about. Then again I’ve seen a handful of amazing cutters who have never worked with anything but mini DV and wouldn’t know what a codec was if it hit them in the head (or rather a book containing information about codecs hit them in the head).
My Favorite line from the article “There’s tons more enhancements in Final Cut Pro, of course, including the new ProRes codec and a number of new FxPlug filters and transitions, including a killer vignette filter I can’t wait to use on my next wedding video.”
WTF. In comparison these aren’t so bad, but I picked out some horrible ones in the other pages of that issue as well as a recent issue of DV. I’ve never actually bothered to read either cover to cover, just recently in my many hours on many planes. I realize why now. They are aimed at “videoguys” and event videographers, nothing against either and they are respectable ways to make money, just not the way I make mine. I probably won’t ever read Digital Content Producer again, I’ll put it on the shelf with all the other Bullshit like the Weekly World News.
I’ve fallen into one of those on the road production slumps, where the world ceases to exist between call times. These things always boggle my mind. Every once in a while I can go almost a month without knowing anything that goes on outside the realm of the job. I hadn’t fully realized that I had fallen into that funk again until moments ago when I discover that Lazlo Kovacs had passed away last month, on Saturday July 21st, he was 74 years old. Laszlo was an inspiration to myself and many others.
Below is an article from the Hollywood Reporter in it’s entirety.
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Yesterday Jim Jannard posted that serial numbers 1 through 25 will be shipping next friday and 26-50 will ship the following Friday!
Now if I only had $50k for a complete package and a reservation.
Just in case you didn’t see this from NAB…
We’re in the process, so bear with us. Right now is that awkward puberty stage where the voice is changing and pimples are popping up everywhere. You’ll be happy you stuck by our side through it when the acne clears up and you see the hot stud that we really are.
kisses
This is slightly old news at this point since the update has been available for a couple of weeks. I’m a little out of the loop since I’m not a gamer, just a movie hound. The best part about this update is the ability to play AVCHD-format video files. You can see a full list of the updates here, but the ones that usually interest me include added video support.
Fresh DV links to a set of tips on how to set up your OS for best use of Final Cut. The list isn’t that incredibly useful, as most of the stuff you have to do just to use Final Cut appropriately in the first place and the other half is the default at install. I also agree with the Fresh DV author about the System Update comment. I think it’s worth leaving the System Update notification on automatic, just make sure you can pick and choose what to install.
Just picked this up from HDFORINDIES during a little render downtime. Looks like another huge bump in the Format Wars. Paramount and Dreamworks have dropped support for Blu-ray!!! Ugh. Man. I was really hoping that Blu-ray would hold strong. Not to mention that this pretty much just leaves Studios with shitty catalogs making Blu-ray movies. At least it will be the best looking, highest-capacity crap.
Read more at Times Online.
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