SPARC's LIVE ART combines two brilliant and ambitious ideas: to create "a 20-week inclusive performing arts educational experience for children with and without developmental disabilities and hearing impairment," culminating "with these students performing on stage alongside some of Virginia's best professional musicians"; and to bring in a skeleton film crew to document not just the event itself, but the entire 5-month teaching, development, and rehearsal process in a documentary that is now being crowd-funded to completion.
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Posted 04 Sep 2012
Magic Bullet Denoiser II is the latest version of Red Giant's popular plug-in for removing video noise from troublesome footage. Event and documentary filmmaker tests the plug-in on two different clips and shows before-and-after results and assesses Denoiser's usability, effectiveness, and rendering speed.
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Posted 29 Aug 2012
The Canon CN-E15.5-47mm T2.8 L S/SP wide-angle cinema zoom lens and the CN-E30-105mm T2.8 L S/SP telephoto cinema zoom lens are engineered to deliver exceptional optical performance for the latest large-format single-sensor 4K and 2K digital cinematography cameras
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Posted 29 Aug 2012
The C100 digital video camera is a compact, entry-level model delivering full 1920x1080 AVCHD video and compatibility with 70+ zoom and prime lenses in Canon's EF, EF-S and EF Cinema lens lineups; new digital cinema cameras also available
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Posted 29 Aug 2012
Targeted at the wedding and event, sports and corporate AV markets, the AC90 records in 1080/60p, 60i, 30p and 24p, as well as in standard definition (480/60i) in 60Hz
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Posted 22 Aug 2012
Scene files can change everything about how a camera performs, from changes in frame rate to complete changes in the color correction matrix and gamma used to create looks.
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Posted 22 Aug 2012
New advanced solutions include the company's new AB-HDRF transmitter system, DIONIC® HCX battery, ULHM-LED on-camera lighting system and new Gold Mount Solutions for the Canon C300/C500 digital cinema cameras and Litepanels LED lighting
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Posted 22 Aug 2012
Lock & Load provides fast, easy smoothing and advanced Rolling Shutter reduction to help minimize skew and wobble artifacts from CMOS sensors used in popular DSLR cameras like the Canon 5D Mk III or even iPhone or iPad footage.
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Posted 22 Aug 2012
Visitors to the annual convention in Amsterdam will be able to get hands-on with Ninja-2s and Samurais working with the latest D800 and D4 DSLRs from Nikon, Sony FS100, FS700 and F3 camcorders, Canon C300 and XF305, JVC 750 and the RED Epic.
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Posted 22 Aug 2012
NewBlueFX ColorFast is a new color correction, color grading, and color enhancement plug-in for Vegas, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, Avid, and EDIUS. In this video review/tutorial, we'll work with a piece of footage from a recent project that calls for all three kinds of color adjustment, and show how to accomplish each task in ColorFast.
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Posted 22 Aug 2012
The 48 Hour Film Project offers filmmakers a chance at fame and glory and unleashed creativity, along with the insanity of producing a film from pre to post in two days. Scott Strimple, editor of award-winning 48HFP entries two years running, recounts what it was like putting together this year's film. In Part 2 he'll discuss the instrumental role Apple Final Cut Pro X played in editing and delivering the film with a cool 9 minutes to spare.
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Posted 04 Aug 2012
New entry-level shoulder-mount camera rig is lightweight, compact and easily configurable, and contains everything DSLR shooters need to stabilize their cameras, achieve better focus pulls, and prevent unwanted light from hitting the camera lens
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Posted 31 Jul 2012
In Part 1 of this two-part series on the Nikon D800, I looked at the operation and functionality of the D800 DSLR as a video camera. Now, in Part 2, I'll share some usability notes, as report the results of some audio and video tests (with test footage) comparing the D800 to another highly regarded DSLR, the Panasonic GH2--to see if a lower-priced but very capable DSLR can measure up with quality glass--and to a more traditional prosumer camcorder.
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Posted 31 Jul 2012
Low-cost, high-efficiency system transmit uncompressed, HD video over 150 feet to any field monitor with a latency of less than 1 millisecond, making it ideal for real-time viewing
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Posted 25 Jul 2012
The Sony NEX-FS700 has much to recommend it as a top-flight large-sensor, interchangeable-lens camcorder and as a worth-the-upgrade successor to the Sony FS100. And it's 4k support and 10x slo-mo are nothing to sneeze at. But what makes it the best camera in the market for webcast producers?
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Posted 23 Jul 2012
In this two-part series, we'll examine how well Nikon's much-heralded D800 DSLR works as a video camera, in terms of operability and functionality. In part two, we'll report on some audio and video tests comparing the D800 to another highly regarded DSLR, and to a more traditional prosumer camcorder.
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Posted 23 Jul 2012
Dutch filmmaker Nordwin Alberts has worked with a range of media in his 26 years in the professional production business, transitioning from stills and multi-projector slideshows to tape-based editing and DVD delivery. Today, streaming is the medium of choice for his industrial, promotional, and experimental films; here's a look at how his work and workflow have evolved.
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Posted 19 Jul 2012
Semi-hard suitcase-style carrier (#PD620) glides smoothly and effortlessly on a built-in wheel-and-tote assembly; central compartment contoured to comfortably fit up to 2 DSLR cameras with lens attached
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Posted 17 Jul 2012
DVEO HD Spigot converters feature dual outputs and are fully compatible with SMPTE-259M and SMPTE 292M; supported resolutions include 1080p, 1080i, 1035i, or 720p HD
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Posted 17 Jul 2012
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