[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/48085024[/vimeo] DOWNLOAD 2.5K BLACKMAGIC H.264 FOOTAGE HERE (Important: on the Vimeo page for this clip, click download to get the 2.5K 80Mbit clip. Don’t bother watching it full screen from the stream as it is a pale imitation of the full 2.5k file) I’ve been experimenting today with Blackmagic Cinema Camera workflows. I use Adobe Premiere as my main NLE. I am not an FX guy so rarely use After…
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Above: my first go at grading the Blackmagic Cinema Camera raw output The above frame is scaled to 660 pixels wide for the blog. Click here to view the full 2400 x 1350 frame in your browser and another full frame here John Brawley and Blackmagic Design today released the first raw DNG files from the camera. Here’s my take on how the raw camera stands up.
As I recently found with my FS100Â Macs really seem to hurt your AVCHD footage from Sony cameras and the Panasonic GH2… But especially the Sony FS100. It is no wonder these cameras often get a bad reputation for limited dynamic range, crushed shadows and blown highlights – when you are only seeing the middle part of the full 8bit range of luma. This Rec.709 portion of a 601 space (16-235…
One of the biggest changes to Premiere Pro in the new version is a renderless timeline which supports OpenCL capable graphics cards. Previously Adobe only supported NVidia’s CUDA standard for GPU acceleration. Mac users with ATI cards missed out on the huge performance gains from a GPU accelerated video editing package. Previously even MacBook Pro users with high end (for the time) CUDA capable NVidia graphics found themselves without quite…
It is a pretty disgraceful state of affairs around raw support and new camera releases at the moment and heads need banging together in my opinion. However help is at hand from Adobe who have released the pre-release version of the new Lightroom 4.1 – and it is free. Adobe Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate (RC) can be downloaded at Adobe Labs here
There are now a lot of MacBook Pros to choose from and Apple’s falling out with NVidia together with the relative disappointment of FCPX has put a new spin on which machine to buy for video editing.
Above: the old Premiere logo. Adobe’s prancing horse to Apple’s donkey. Final Cut Pro X has been sitting on my machine alongside Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Final Cut Pro 7 since its release a few months ago, and after the initial week of getting to know it I haven’t used it once. It’s a dead duck.
You may already have heard of the Lytro camera which originated at Stanford – a plenoptic camera / 4D light field camera. The concept has a depth sensitive imager and software determined focal plane meaning you can focus after taking the shot.