There has been a lot of talk about YouTube offering higher quality content. I did hear about this a while ago, but was unable to find any. I thought it may have been a delay in offering this new feature to the rest of the world.
Recently we created a new show reel and so I [...]
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Youtube offers high quality Video.
July 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Post Production · codecs · google
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 [...]
Tags: Film Making · Post Production
Opening up Apple OSX to non Mac Hardware.
May 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Recently I have a discussion (Bordering on heated argument ) about Apple releasing OSX for NON-Mac hardware. This all started when OpenComputer/OpenMac by PsyStar started selling a beige box running consumer PC hardware with OSX running on it.
This generated a louder than expected amount of noise/news in the Blogosphere. So much noise, in fact, [...]
Tags: Apple · Post Production
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 [...]
Tags: Film Making · Post Production · Sony · cinema · codecs
AVCHD due this year
March 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Today I came across some documents from Panasonic that cover their implementation of AVC-Intra (An I-frame only, 4:2:2 10bit at 100mbit) implementation for their P2 system.
See Panasonic Technical Overview, and AVC-Intra-FAQ
Scanning the net, there is mixed reviews for this technology. I read an interesting blog post about asking why we would bother with this standard [...]
Tags: Film Making · Post Production · Standards