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Marshall 6.5″ Super Transflective Field Monitor

August 27, 2008 in broadcast products, camera products, cinematography by grace

The V-LCD651ST is the newest addition to Marshall’s line of Super Transflective Outdoor Monitors. This 6.5″ portable field / camera-top monitor is designed specifically for outdoor applications with high ambient light. Our technology minimizes surface reflection of both outdoor and indoor light, while featuring a much wider color reproduction range than typical transflective/reflective LCDs or [...]

by Josh

Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene

August 19, 2008 in post visuals by Josh

This innovative research into using high resolution photos in conjunction with lower quality video leads to some very interesting possibilities… the depth mapping conjures visions of adjustable depth-of-field in post, for example. Check out the video examples: The work presents a system for automatically producing a wide variety of video enhancements and visual effects. Unlike [...]

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What just happened to video on the web?

August 13, 2008 in camera products, digital video news, dvcTV, editing, location sound, post visuals, web video by Josh

What just happened to video on the web? We are extremely excited to announce that DV Kitchen, the ultimate solution for publishing professional quality video on the web, is available immediately! Click here to find out all about it and watch the new movies! DV Kitchen’s primary focus is encoding and uploading broadcast quality, internet-friendly-bandwidth [...]

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DV Kitchen screencast – encoding to FLV and Jeroen’s Player

August 13, 2008 in web video by Josh

This movie shows how easy it is to encode to any size, any bitrate FLV movie, upload it, then have DV Kitchen create an entire HTML page for you with window title, page title, movie caption, and Jeroen’s FLV Player, the most popular on the web. Watch it in Jeroen’s player here.

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Can DV Kitchen take a 3 hour job down to 12 seconds?

August 13, 2008 in web products, web video by Josh

dvcCast!’s integrated encoding and uploading saves three hours of waiting around. $845.23

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Let’s talk about mice teeth

August 12, 2008 in broadcast, digital video news by Josh

We have had a lot of questions on our forums about interlaced video, so I thought I would write a series of articles to clear everything up once and for all! Where did interlacing come from? Back in the day, when me and my buddies were developing broadcast television, we were going to model it [...]

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Three new HD AVC format camcorders from Canon

August 12, 2008 in cinematography, digital video news by Josh

Canon announced the VIXIA HF11 Dual Flash Memory Camcorder, and the VIXIA HG21 and VIXIA HG20 Hard Disk Drive camcorders. The newest members to the VIXIA HD camcorder family incorporate 24Mbps bit rate recording – the highest possible bit rate in the AVCHD format. The VIXIA HF11 Dual Flash Memory camcorder can record up to [...]

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How do I get Final Cut to recognize my camcorder?

August 8, 2008 in editing by Josh

If you notice a loss of connectivity between Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express and your camcorder or deck after upgrading your versions of Mac OS X and QuickTime, here’s what you can do to resolve the issue. Remove QuickTime receipts: Go to /Library/Receipts/ Locate the QuickTime receipts files. Select all QuickTime receipts that [...]

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How do I export a high quality movie?

August 3, 2008 in DVD, digital video news, editing, web video by Josh

When you’re finished with your edit, how should you export? Well, it depends. METHOD #1. Reference movie If you want to export a temporary file as quickly as possible, export a reference movie. File > Export > Quicktime Movie UNcheck “Make Self-Contained” Pros: If you’ve rendered your sequence, this is the fastest way to export [...]