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Rotoscoping with Aperture

May 12, 2010 4 Comments by admin

Not long ago, I posted an article about sensor cleaning. It had a huge response and it’s still visited regularly today. It’s a problem that affects us all, sooner or later… and it isn’t going away anytime soon.!! As you may know, dust bunnies are not so hard to remove on stills, at least on [...]

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Coming Full Circle; CS5/FCS/Avid

May 02, 2010 1 Comment by admin

Makes me feel old writing a title like that… but what is old in this ever evolving industry??? By the way, if you’re not feeling nostalgic and just want to know about CS5, just scroll down until you see the big 5… Those of us in non-linear editing should not forget, we’re riding a very [...]

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NAB Aftermath – The world might be going 3d, but it has already gone HDSLR!

Apr 27, 2010 No Comments by admin

NAB is absolutely monumental! If you never made it out there, you should! The sheer size is hard too describe… By noon of the first day, people are getting massages in the endless corridors that intertwine the megalomonous halls that host vendors by the hundreds, all together adding up this year to about 1500… but [...]

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3D killed the Indie filmmaker star!

Apr 11, 2010 6 Comments

The world has always had a 3rd dimension! But why is everyone so interested in it, all of a sudden!? The answer is very simple… capitalism! Money! Profit! The studios’ profit, to be precise! Since our cave man times, we’ve been trying to graphically represent what our eyes see. Attempts to reproduce depth go as [...]

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Sensor cleaning; The plague of the century!

Jan 27, 2010 6 Comments

It’s been a while I’ve been silent… Yes, I’ve been busy trying to finish my never ending film, but the excitement of the first 5D videos and the expectations of what would be new in cameras like the 7D and 1D has come to an end… so I’ve been a lot less inspired to write… [...]

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Contour HD 720p; from C cam to A cam in one day…

Nov 30, 2009 2 Comments

It’s been a crazy couple of months in RadRaven’s land… I have now approximately 99.5% of “Road to Red” in the can and a 2h30m rough-cut, growing on 3… Two major things should be mentioned about this last unit: 1. I didn’t resist! I used my 5D to shoot several pieces for my film, which [...]

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The most brilliant mistake?! (1D Mark IV, 7D, 5D MK II, GH1)

Oct 23, 2009 1 Comment

It’s been an interesting week… I was about to hop on a plane back from Portugal when I saw Stu’s new blog post in my RSS feed. I can tell you I was pretty late when I got to the airport… The one 1D Mark IV could be the camera so many of us have [...]

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The announcement of the 7D and my decision to buy a 5D.

Sep 08, 2009 No Comments

I’ve been patiently waiting to make a decision. The 7D turmoil of rumored specs had an important role in holding me back, until they were officially announced… It was both an exciting and anguishing day for me. I sat through a 2 day shower of information at the Collision Conference trying to make sense of [...]

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GH1+5Dx7D+1D/Scarlet=1 hell of a Pre-math…

Aug 26, 2009 No Comments

It’s official! Canon Rumors reported the official date for a press release scheduled for the 1st of September to announce the rumored new SLRs. Expectations now split between the 7D and the 1D Mark IV, although some say that the 1D replacement should only come out in 2010, to complete Canon’s traditional 3 year life [...]

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5D hidden fees…

Aug 21, 2009 No Comments

It was pretty exciting reading Phillip’s post, this morning!  The new Zacuto viewfinder “Z-Finder V2″ is finally out and he’s one of the first lucky ones to get it…  The passion he puts in his reviews is simply contagious! This brings me to today’s thoughts on how much do you really need to spend to [...]

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