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Hands-on review: JVC GY-HM100
This light-weight professional camera records high quality native QuickTime files direct to solid-state media which can then be edited straight away inside of Apple's Final Cut Pro. There is no need to transcode or change the files from one format to another. The media is ready to edit immediately, either from card or by bringing the files straight into Final Cut Pro, or by copying direct to hard drive.
Latest blog entries
Amazing what can be achieved with the most basic of equipment
My 15 inch MacBook Pro is in meltdown - still hanging on but barely able to do work of any significance. I've ordered the 17 inch - which has arrived, awaiting for me to return home after close to three weeks away. I'm overseas and with me is a 3 year old black MacBook - and the dieing 15 inch.
Hear today, hear tomorrow...
I often film parties as part of the events I cover. Parties have bands and acts, and bands and acts have PA stacks, and PA (Public Address - speaker) stacks make a good place to get shots because not many people are stupid enough to stand in the veritable breeze of moving air beside these things. That’s right, I’m stupid.
PMW-EX owners: WOOT!
Ross Hereweni has done it again. His company, E-Films, produce the MxR adaptor designed to enable the use of inexpensive SDHC cards inside the Sony PMW-EX line of cameras. With a couple of relatively inexpensive 32GB SDHC cards, you're good for almost 3 hours of shooting without swapping cards.
Betting the Farm
MacWorld is but a fading memory. NAB has come and gone. WWDC is over. MacBook Pros are being booed at. Still no FCP. Not even a whisper. Where's the beef?
My 15 inch MacBook Pro is in serious trouble: time to upgrade
My 15 inch MacBook Pro is in serious trouble.
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Movie of the Week
Ladies and Gentlemen, Walter Murch (part 1)
At the FCPUG Supermeet in London, June 25th 2009, Walter takes to the stage to talk about Tetro, the latest film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The conversation extends to other work Murch has done and reveals the heart of modern day filmmaking using Final Cut Pro as the editor. Walter has won three Academy Awards: best sound for Apocalypse Now (1979) and a double Oscar, best sound and best picture editing, for the English Patient (1996). He has been nominated for Academy Awards on six other occasions.
Latest Videos
Interview of the Week
Step into the 3rd Dimension with Lenny Lipton
In part 3 of the interview with Lenny Lipton - Lenny talks about 3D video production, an area which he is an expert in. Lenny is credited with having created the world's first 3D flickerless stereo field sequential system, which means the stereo image is projected out of a single source. His work in the area of 3D video production is used at the highest levels, including blockbuster 3D Hollywood motion pictures. In 1982 he published his book, Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema, which provides a wide ranging analysis of many stereoscopic topics.
Latest Interviews
Editing
News > Alex Gollner offers six new free Final Cut plugins
Transitions with curve controls
Working with Final Cut Pro - if you want more control over how transitions start and finish, try these six transitions. Depending on the nature of the effect, you might want transitions to ease in and ease out. In other cases, you might want the effect to start quickly and finish slowly.
Reviews > Abaltat Muse - music creation software
Royalty music, custom-scored to your images, written by a computer
Can a computer write music - the answer, according to the creator of Abaltat Muse is definitely yes. Using artificial intelligence this music creation software analyses the colour information in a video piece and scores music defined by band selection, rhythm, tempo, and use of jingle. A fascinating way to create music which is neither loop or music library based.
Motion Graphics/VFX
News > Stu Maschwitz Joins Red Giant Software as Creative Director
Original creator of the Magic Bullet Suite of plug-ins
Red Giant Software announces that Stu Maschwitz is now the new Creative Director for Magic Bullet products. Stu Maschwitz is the original creator of the Magic Bullet Suite of plug-ins.
Reviews > Red Giant Software buys video plug-in range from Digital Anarchy
Acquisition adds six new products to Red Giant product-line
A look at the video plug-ins made by Digital Anarchy which have now been purchased by Red Giant. Demonstration by the man behind Digital Anarchy, Jim Tierney, who shows off the former Digital Anarchy video filters and the incredible results which can achieved.
DVD Authoring
News > Roxio intros Roxio CD Spin Doctor 6 for Mac
Record, convert, identify and clean audio from vinyl and tape
Roxio, the makers of Toast, have announced Roxio CD Spin Doctor 6 for Mac.
Reviews > Step into Blu-ray - for less than £200
Affordable Blu-ray provides storage solution on the Mac
None of the modern Macs ship with Blu-ray writers which is incredibly frustrating for video editors/camera people, especially those shooting to tapeless formats. What we need is a reliable and affordable way to archive our media. In this report we take a Blu-ray writer, specified to work with Windows XP or Vista, and plug it into a Mac to see what happens. The results are not only surprising but inspiring. We now have that archiving solution we have been looking for.
Encoding
News > iPhone 3GS causes 400% rise in YouTube uploads
Clips uploded in last six months increases by 1,700%
Video-sharing site YouTube has reported that uploads to the site have increased by 400 percent since the iPhone 3GS was launched earlier this month.
New features include BluRay VC-1 support, improved MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding, H.264 support
As ever more video content is uploaded to the Web, the number of compression applications has exploded. With so many budget alternatives, is Squeeze still worthy of consideration?
Camera Technology
News > Kodak Retires KODACHROME Film; Celebrates Life of Oldest Film Icon in its Portfolio
Classic film stock phased out
Eastman Kodak Company announced today that it will retire KODACHROME Color Film this year, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.
Reviews > Hands-on review: JVC GY-HM100
Solid-state camera records to SDHC cards in QuickTime native format
This light-weight professional camera records high quality native QuickTime files direct to solid-state media which can then be edited straight away inside of Apple's Final Cut Pro. There is no need to transcode or change the files from one format to another. The media is ready to edit immediately, either from card or by bringing the files straight into Final Cut Pro, or by copying direct to hard drive.
