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| Inside the 501HDV is a powerful new feature that takes its inspiration from our top professional video head models – a fi xed counterbalance spring (set for a typical weight of camera + accessories of 2.5kg) that helps ensure both smoother tilt movements and greater equipment safety even when tilt locks are inadvertently left off. The easy-to-reach on/off switch allows the counterbalance system to be disengaged or re-engaged for different fi lming setups. But from the |
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| Suspension Shock Mount - (Clamp Adaptor) |
A shotgun microphone suspension shock mount for high end video cameras. The SM5 shock mount is designed specifically to fit Panasonic® and Sony® video cameras with clamp mounts.Features a 4-way rubber suspension with an integral Ø24 mm and Ø27 mm clamp mount adaptor.The SM5 incorporates a two way mounting system with 1/4″x 20 and 3/8″ x 16 internal threads, for Tripod and Boom Pole mounting.
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Canon GL2
We’ve been shooting with the GL2 since June of 2002, and this camera, in our opinion, beats out the present competition for overall picture quality, flexibility and features. |
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The Ultimatte DV is a huge timesaver! Forget having to Render – it’s done! Real-Time chroma key made simple! Feed your Camera into the Foreground input, an S-Video signal into the Background input – what you see out of the Output is your final composite!
We’ve beeen using an inexpensive DVD player as our Background source. Simply burn a DVD with your still images or animated backgrounds and you’re done.
The true beauty of the Ultimatte is being able to adjust your framing and lighting to make the scene appear real. Say for instance you have a window …
Sennheiser MD46 Handheld interview microphone
Unlike traditional handheld mics, the MD46 was designed to be used outdoors in even a slightly windy environment yet still pick up to about a foot away and mostly eliminating anything beyond. It was actually developed for the Olympics in Australia during the track and field events to interview the athletes.
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FFmpeg is a cross-platform, open source audio/video conversion tool. It includes libavcodec, the leading open source codec library. An experimental streaming server for live broadcasts is also included.Download here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg/ ffmpegX is the OS X version.
It seems more and more common that editors are being asked to use content from a DVD- perhaps the client has provided you with last years annual report DVD… and wants you to redit it. (Remember, ripping off copyrighted content is a Federal offense with imprisonment and large fines possible!)
You can use MacTheRipper to get the content from a DVD on your hard drive (OS X only)
MPEG Streamclip is an application that converts MPEG files (including transport streams) into muxed, demuxed, QuickTime, AVI and DV files. http://www.squared5.com/
Here is a tutorial on extracting content with MPEG …
Photoshop is the old standby, but I don’t like it for video graphics. Someone as simple as grabbing an element and moving it is problematic. I much prefer FireWorks, or even Motion for still graphics, which has some nice layout functions.
Flash is also an option for "PowerPoint" type slides, as well as Keynote.
GIMP is a free, open source graphics program very similar to Photoshop. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It …
If you shot and edited a project in DV format, this is one recommendation:
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The R-4 Pro shares the R-4’s rugged construction, robust feature set and great sound quality, but the R-4 Pro also includes AES/EBU support, SMPTE time code and superb electronics. Record up to four channels at 24-bit 96KHz and monitor each channel discretely. The durable DC input jack allows for industry-standard battery packs to extend your record time. Its 80GB hard drive will store up to 125 hours of high quality audio. You can plug in any standard USB drive and enjoy fast back-ups of your projects. Like the R-4, the R-4 Pro has on-board …
Sennheiser HD280PRO Studio monitor headphones
Pros always monitor their audio with a good pair of closed eared headphones. The HD280 Professional is Sennheiser’s most significant closed, circumaural headphone to be introduced in years. Designed to exceed the demands of the professional environment, the HD280Pro boasts extremely robust construction combined with extensive features that meet the requirements of today’s most demanding applications. The unique collapsible design combined with swiveling ear cups, offers maximum flexibility in any application. Very comfortable, even if used for long periods of time.…
Demos at MGLA (Motion Graphics Los Angeles) meeting, courtesy of the Pixel Corps:
After Effects 7.0 intro
iPod video-friendly version
Synfig is a cartoon animation package with tweening- vector based so the results can be output at any size.
From their site:
“Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our software can.”
Watch a guy turn into a werewolf?
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ImagePlay - Easy Image Effects
See the Project Page for REALbasic Source Code
Description:
Run a series of effects on an image; tweak them, rearrange them, remove them, all without messing up the source image.
Features:
| ?Ä¢ Image Layers (and Masks) ?Ä¢ Effects Layers ?Ä¢ Live Rendering of effects as you change them |
| ?Ä¢ Masks can have effects sepperate from those of the layer surface ?Ä¢ Auto-Masks keep in sync with the layer surface ?Ä¢ Drag&Drop to start new projects or add layers ?Ä¢ Export preview estimates file size ?Ä¢ And more… |
http://imageplay.sourceforge.net/
Celtx is the first comprehensive software package designed for people who work in the Pre-Production of Film, TV, Theatre and New Media. It provides all of the tools you need under one application and works on all platforms.
Story Development Tools
Celtx includes Scene and Character Development tools that help spur creativity. Use the customizable forms to build out the story line of your project. Any information will be added to your project database and automatically pre-populate your script and reports.
Professional Script Writing
Import, write and edit …
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