Panavision, da Vinci Systems, Gamma & Density, and Modern VideoFilm all came together at Cine Gear Expo 2008 to reveal what happened the first time the ASC’s CDL has been put to a real-world test, on the forthcoming State of Play, shot on 35mm film and the Panavision Genesis by cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto.... »
Production sound mixer mark Ulano won an Oscar for his work on Titanic. F&V asked him about the latest in audio gear and got his thoughts on the potential of the coming digital broadcast transition to wreak havoc on diversity wireless-mic systems.... »
Each of the three new Slate HD models includes: a switcher with up to six keyers and DVEs, multi-view monitoring, a Harris Inscriber CG, and a clip store.... »
For Scourge, a low-budget horror film with the tag line “you are what it eats,” cinematographer Corey Robson employed a pair of JVC ProHD camcorders to capture high-quality, high-definition images — his producer's GY-HD250 was the main camera, and his own HDV GY-HD100 served as B camera — and then broke out a copy of Apple’s Final Cut Studio and Color to edit and finish the movie. We talked to him about the good, the bad, and the buggy.... »
Along with digital cinematography, the DI is a watershed marking a transformation of old-line studio production that’s also moving well into indie film culture.... »
Don’t throw out all those videotapes yet. Valuable content may still be archived on a panoply of analog and digital tape formats, and HDV has given the MiniDV tape a new lease on life, but totally tapeless... »
AJA’s new KONA LHe is a 10-bit uncompressed video capture card designed to take advantage of the PCI Express architecture in the new Power Mac G5 Quad dual-core desktop workstations from Apple. ... »
