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Red Camera, nothing but hype

November 25th, 2008 · 14 Comments

Red Digital Cinema recently dropped all specs on its Scarlet and Epic product range as Nikon and Canon bring out cameras of equivalent performance (Ie Canon 5D MkII).  A month later they announce a totally re-vamped vision with what one would consider to be “the dream vision” of film making equipment.  The question here is.  [...]

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Tags: cinema · Film Making · Post Production · Sony

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. The [...]

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Tags: codecs · Film Making · Standards