all articles tagged 'HD/HDV/HD DVD'

Monitoring your work in Final Cut Pro

When you’re EDITING, you can make good decisions just watching the Canvas Window on your laptop.

But for color grading, it’s critically important to watch your show on a monitor that’s displaying an accurate image. Monitoring is important because all your color grading work is going to be off if the monitor you’re watching while you work is not telling the truth.

Think of all the ways viewers might watch your project. If you’re delivering on DVD, your show might be watched on plasma or LCD TVs, projectors, or older CRT TVs - but they also might be watching the DVD on …



HD Monitoring ideas

You’re shooting with your new HDV or HD camcorder, and the footage looks amazing! But are you really seeing the full picture?

Not unless you’re looking at a high definition monitor. But professional HD monitors are still expensive.

So, here’s an idea:

You can buy a LCD TV/computer monitor (the lines are being blurred more every day) that can be used for three different purposes:

1. While shooting, you can run component (like from the Canon XL H1 or XH A1) out of your camera into component input on the LCD to monitor what you’re shooting in full, pixel-for-pixel …



Blackmagic Design Intensity and Intensity Pro

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Intensity Pro (With Break out cables)

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Intensity (HDMI Only)

Want to view your project out to an HD monitor? Add the incredible quality of HDMI to your computer. Intensity features the latest HDMI technology for the highest quality capture and playback on Windows or Mac OS X computers. Now you can edit using big-screen HDMI televisions and video projectors, or capture uncompressed quality from HDV cameras. Intensity features HDMI-in for connecting to cameras and digital set-top boxes for the highest quality

Intensity Pro is



HD-DVD players

Cnet’s HD-DVD player roundup.

more Info here



Post-CES opinion piece about the future of DVD

http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=15323



Is reauthoring entire movie catalogs in HD DVDs a huge opportunity?

Think about this:

More and more people are buying HD TVs. HD DVD standards are still settling. Walk into a Blockbuster or check out NetFlix, and you’ll find all DVDs are SD (Standard Definition) except for just a couple exceptions.

However, after the next year or two, NO ONE is going to want to rent or buy a low resolution, SD DVD.

Once someone wins the HD DVD format wars, major movie studios are going to have to totally scramble to re-release their entire catalog on HD DVD.

There’s no way current DVD authoring businesses can handle the workload. They’ll be working 24 hour …



Blu-ray news and info

What is Blue-ray?

Blu-ray Disc at a glance



Microsoft to pay up to OEMs for using HD DVD

The HD DVD plot thickens.



Where can I find more about FCP and P2?

Download this PDF:

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Final_Cut_Pro_5.0_lbn_z.pdf



How does HDV hold up when recapturing ?

http://www.creativecow.net/articles…_HDV/index.html



Intel, Microsoft endorse HD DVD

http://news.com.com/Intel,+Microsof…_3-5883337.html