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Marshall 6.5" Super Transflective Field Monitor

Aug 27, 2008 at 6:35 pm in broadcast products, camera products, cinematography by duncan · 1 Comment »

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 even those with increased backlight performance. Marshall’s outdoor super-transmissive LCDs provide improved visibility by producing high-contrast images and a wider viewing angle, even under diverse  [read more →]

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Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene

Aug 19, 2008 at 12:22 pm in post visuals by · Leave a Comment »

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 traditional visual effects software (e.g., After Effects, Shake, Boujou, etc), the system is completely automatic and no manual labor is required from the user. The major limitation  [read more →]

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What just happened to video on the web?

Aug 13, 2008 at 8:00 pm in digital video news, dvcTV, editing, web video by . · 5 Comments »

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 video to a website, blog, forum, or for a video podcast. You can import movies, encode them, and upload them in as  [read more →]

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

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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?

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

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Let’s talk about mice teeth

Aug 12, 2008 at 4:39 pm in broadcast, digital video news by Josh Mellicker · 6 Comments »

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 on film, which took a sequence of photos of reality, so, if a blue circle was moving from left to right, two consecutive frames  [read more →]

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Three new HD AVC format camcorders from Canon

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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 12 hours of High-Definition video to a 32GB internal Flash drive, as well as record directly to a removable SDHC card for expanded recording time.

The VIXIA HG21  [read more →]

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How do I get Final Cut to recognize my camcorder?

Aug 8, 2008 at 10:09 pm in editing by · Leave a Comment »

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.

  1. Remove QuickTime receipts:
    1. Go to /Library/Receipts/
    2. Locate the QuickTime receipts files.
    3. Select all QuickTime receipts that have version numbers as part of their names (but don’t select the other QuickTime receipts). Here’s an example of what they look like (you may have different receipts on  [read more →]