JamieG Analysis

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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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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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, [...]

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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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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 [...]

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