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A Film makers tool of choice. FLASH based HD recorder.

April 17th, 2008 · No Comments

A while back I reported that we would soon see portable flash momory based, high quality recorders to strip onto an HD-SDI based camera available.
Well here is a great first attempt at this technology..
From http://www.convergent-design.com/ we have the Flash XDR (See some cool comments here)
This device makes any HD-SDI camera capable of recording better then [...]

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Tags: Film Making · Post Production · Sony · cinema · codecs

Sony makes a decent VTR – About TIME.

March 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Sony is about to release a VTR that actually answers the needs of a modern Post Production House.  This has been a long time coming.  And in some ways I would like to think I had a hand in shaping its future. (see here)
A number of years ago, back when the HDCAM deck was released, [...]

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Tags: Development · Film Making · Post Production · Sony · Standards · codecs

Comments on: Looking at the future on Video Codecs

January 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Philip Hodgetts and I are arguing over H.264 again….
Philip comments on H.264 for consumer cameras:
> It’s nice to have high quality codec choices, but I don’t see AVCHD as
> it is currently implemented in the cheap HD camcorders reaching the 
> appeal of HDV.  Cheap and convenient seems to sell more than great 
> quality. [...]

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Tags: Post Production · Standards · codecs

AVCHD straight to Flash Player 9.3 demo (Flash Rocks)

January 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Recently I got a Xacti VPC-HD1000. This is the smallest 1080i video camera on the market, plus 8M picture camera. It stores the video data on a solid state 4gig SD card in AVCHD. AVCHD is another name for H.264. Flash Player 9 revision 3 recently came out supporting H.264/AAC.
This made me consider the fact [...]

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Tags: Adobe · IPTV · codecs · flash · flex

More on AppleTV and being Open

December 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Today I got a responce from Luck Kanthatham.  He has written a blog about opening the AppleTV.  It is a good post, giving a good deeper description of how Apple may open the AppleTV product.
See it at http://appletvsource.com/content/view/464/
But, I also had a lot to say about this post (I actually got up on my Soap [...]

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Tags: Apple · IPTV · Microsoft · codecs