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19th Oct 2010
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Recent reviews
Impressions of the Panasonic HPX-171
Just spent most of the last week shooting with Panasonic's HPX-171. For those unfamiliar with the Panasonic camera range the HPX-171 is the European model, the equivalent of the US model, the HPX-170. This camera shoots DVCPro HD, or standard definition DVCPro, or DV to P2 card. There is no tape drive on the camera, therefore the only option is to record to card. For those want the ability to record to tape, Panasonic also offer the HVX-201A.
Interviews
From the MacVideo archive: M dot Strange - Ultimate Independent Filmmaker
02/08/2010
Rick Young
A look inside the mind of M dot Strange. Hear from the man himself, just what motivates him, the tools he uses and how this self taught 3D animator has become known for producing a full-blown animated feature film single-handedly. What M dot has achieved would normally take a team of people months or years of work.
Richard Shackleton - The Foundry
10/07/2010
Rick Young
The Foundry is regarded as being world leading innovator of visual effects and image processing technologies that boost productivity in motion picture and video post production. The Foundry's products support a wide range of award-winning host platforms including After Effects, Autodesk® Media and Entertainment Systems, Avid DS, Nuke, Shake and Final Cut Pro. In 2007, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded a Sci-Tech Award® to The Foundry's development team for the Furnace image processing suite.
Stu Maschwitz: DV Rebel (part 5)
21/06/2010
Rick Young
Stu Maschwitz talks about his hugely influential book "The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap." This concludes the interview with Stu Maschwitz is a highly regarded director, writer and visual effects artist based in San Francisco. He has worked as a senior visual effects supervisor on many films. He previously worked at Industrial Light and Magic and also co-founded a company known as The Orphanage.
Stuart Ashton - General Manager EMEA, Blackmagic Design (parts 1 and 2)
04/05/2010
Rick Young
An in-depth discussion about DaVinci Resolve on the Mac: what this means for the world of color correction, different options offered in the DaVinci range, key features which DaVinci offers and the Blackmagic strategy for making high-end tools affordable and within reach of everyone.
Dennis Radeke: Adobe Certified Expert
19/04/2010
Rick Young
In this piece Dennis Radeke talks about the significance of the 64 bit, native cocoa functionality of Adobe CS5, the integration with Final Cut Pro, the Mercury playback engine, and the benefits the latest carnation of the software brings to the users.CS5 is an eagerly awaited upgrade to Adobe's CS5 and is expected to ship within the month.
Stu Maschwitz: DV Rebel (parts 3 & 4)
12/04/2010
Rick Young
Stu Maschwitzis a highly regarded director, writer and visual effects artist based in San Francisco. He has worked as a senior visual effects supervisor on many films. He previously worked at Industrial Light and Magic and also co-founded a company known as The Orphanage. In 2007 he authored the book The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap. In 2008 he became software director of Red Giant software.
Stu Maschwitz: DV Rebel (part 2)
22/02/2010
Rick Young
Why shoot 24P? Stu Maschwitz tells us why. In this, Part 2 of the MacVideo interview with Stu Maschwitz, he tells why shooting and replay at 24 frames per second is so important to the filmmaker. Stu Maschwitz is a highly regarded director, writer and visual effects artist based in San Francisco. He has worked as a senior visual effects supervisor on many films. He previously worked at Industrial Light and Magic and also co-founded a company known as The Orphanage.
Best of MacVideo Interviews 2009 (parts 3 & 4)
02/01/2010
Rick Young
Featuring: Claudio von Planta - War Cameraman/Journalist; Jonathan Walls- Co-Director/Editor; Lenny Lipton - Independent Filmmaker; Michael Wohl - original Final Cut Pro Development Team; Vaughan Smith - War Cameraman/Journalist; Walter Murch - Feature Film Editor; Tom Ohanian - Founding team Avid Technology; Jerry Hofmann - Digital Video Pioneer; Ramy Katrib - CEO and Founder, DigitalFilm Tree; The Ken Stone Sessions (part 1).
Best of MacVideo Interviews 2009 (parts 1 and 2)
28/12/2009
Rick Young
Featuring: Tom Robotham - inventor of Blender light, Noah Kadner - digital video expert; Brian Valente - Redrock Micro; Bob Daniels - CDIA; John Rule - Rule Broadcast; M Dot Strange - filmmaker; Larry Jordan - 2-Pop Founder; Anthony Artis - filmmaker; Arthur C. Smith III - filmmaker; Glenn Kennel - Arriflex.
H.264 - the modern codec for distribution
23/11/2009
Rick Young
Wayne Andrews, Mac Product Manager from Matrox, talks in-depth about the importance of H.264 as a distribution codec and how Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for mobile devices, the web and Blu-ray discs. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with superior speed to the technology used by Apple in the creation of H.264 files.
Blackmagic buys da Vinci
14/09/2009
Rick Young
Blackmagic Design has announced the purchase of all assets of DaVinci Systems LLC. This purchase means Blackmagic Design will now offer DaVinci Resolve DI color correction systems and DaVinci Revival film restoration products for sale worldwide. Since 1984 DaVinci have been, and continue to be, the standard in post production. The acquisition propels Blackmagic to the highest echelons of the production world.
IBC SuperMeet Preview - Dan Berube and Michael Horton
06/09/2009
Rick Young
The agenda is now set for the Second Annual Amsterdam FCPUG SuperMeet to be held Sunday, 13 September 2009 at The Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Dam Square, the heart of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Doors open at 16:30 with an FCP Showcase with 26 exhibitors; Presentations begin at 19:00 and continue until 23:30. Headlining the event is Final Cut Pro co-creator Michael Wohl.
Noise Industries FxFactory Pro
09/03/2009
Rick Young
Niclas Bahn, Business Development, Noise Industries, describes the company philosophy. "We're succeeding in revolutionising the plug-in business and bringing the technology to editors and also to other plug-in developers to really bring innovative solutions to Final Cut and After Effects users out there." In this interview Niclas Bahn, Business Development is featured along with Gabriele de Simone - Product Engineering and Design, Noise Industries. With 6 leading partners, and over 300 effects available, Noise Industries has achieved their goal of changing the way the plug-in world operates.
Best of MacVideo Interviews 2008
22/12/2008
Rick Young
10 of the best of the MacVideo interviews featured throughout 2008. This two part special includes interviews with Walter Murch, Ken Stone, Ramy Katrib, Garrett Brown and more. These are edited versions of the original interviews, taken from the MacVideo archive. Hear some of the most influential people in the world of digital video tell their stories.
Best of MacVideo Interviews 2008 (part 2)
21/12/2008
Rick Young
Part two of this special includes interviews with Richard Marx, Graeme Nattress, Garrett Brown and more. These are edited versions of the original interviews, taken from the MacVideo archive. Hear some of the most influential people in the world of digital video tell their stories.
Interview with Martin Baker, Founder of Digital Heaven
07/11/2008
Rick Young
In November 2004 Digital Heaven introduced Multicam Lite. This was a breakthrough product as it provided the first true Multicam solution for Final Cut Pro, well before Multicam was integrated as part of Final Cut Pro 5. In this interview, Martin Baker, Founder of Digital Heaven, talks about the history of the company, the products on offer, their latest application - Loader, and what we have to look forward to next from Digital Heaven.
Abobe Interviews: Michael Coleman, Product Manager, Adobe After Effects and Simon Hayhurst, Sr. Director, Product Management, Dynamic Media
26/09/2008
Rick Young
Hear direct from the people at Abobe what the release of CS4 means for video editors. When CS3 was released this brought Abobe back to the Mac Platform for video editing. Now with CS4 Adobe takes another swipe at the market with new tools, new features, and new ways of doing things.
Interview with Boris Yamnitsky, the founder of Boris FX
12/09/2008
Rick Young
Boris FX is regarded throughout the video industry as a company which has been innovative and focussed on providing tools to editors, compositors and effects artists who wish to extend the potential creating high quality video effects. Several products are on offer, including tool-sets which rate alongside the best of the best in the world of motion graphics and visual effects creation.
Interview with Roger Maybon, G-Technology
12/09/2008
Rick Young
G-Technology are well know for producing quality drives which are both reliable and capable of sustained levels of data transfer needed for high end video production. In this interview Roger Maybon talks about new products and developments for G-Tech for the the first half of 2008.
Interview with Steve Forde, President, GridIron Software
12/09/2008
Rick Young
GridIron Software are well-known for GridIron Nucleo Pro, a plug-in which allows After Effects to render while you work. In this interview - Steve Forde - President of GridIron Software talks about the development of the company, their successful product, GridIron Nucleo Pro and a new product, soon-to-be-released called Flow.
