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Entries Tagged as 'Film Making'

Canon 5D revolution and on PhotoGeek

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Recently Canon released a new camera  called the EOS 5D MkII.  This camera can shoot video as well as being a 22mega pixel stills camera.  I was on the Photogeek.tv podcast last week talking about it.  You can find some amazing videos and behind the scenes information on Vincent Laforet ’s blog.
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Tags: Film Making · Post Production · cinema · codecs

AVCHD takes it place in the spotlight.

August 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Canon has slated the release of a new camera that will put H.264/AVC into the spot light recently.  I have written much over the years about how H.264 will eventually take over as the standardised codec of choice. The Canon HG20/HG21 is the camera that will make consumers love AVC.
See Gizmoto review here.
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Tags: Film Making · Standards · codecs

My Showreel for July 2008

July 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I am very busy getting some work done before a holiday to Sydney.  I have been unable to get much together for my BLOG, however, here is our latest showreel at digitAll/Planet X Studios the company I am a part owner in and the Technical Director.
I also wanted to give vimeo a go.  I heard [...]

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Tags: Film Making · Post Production

The tend towards an open STB continues.

June 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

A common topic I cover on my blog is what the Set top box of the future is likely to be. Recently in my post named “Discussion with Philip Hodgetts about the digital TV future.”, Philip and I covered many aspects of this idea.  Recently a number of developments connected to this topic have surfaced.  [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · Film Making · IPTV · Microsoft · Sony · Standards

Google’s Youtube, changing the face of Reporting.

June 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Recently Youtube announced a new channel specifically for producers who make news type content.
http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=Em6c795bzc0
This announcement makes Youtube a portal for NEWS by independent reporters.  Social technologies will obviously be used to bring hi-quality and items of social interest to the top of the channel.  It will be interesting to see how well this goes.
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Tags: Film Making · IPTV · google