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RED With Envy
A former professor sent me an email recently about a movie shoot, and mentioned that they would be using a “Red Camera.” What is this new camera, and what are your thoughts on it? Is it a good product, is it expensive, and/or worth the cost? RED. The short answer is that it’s a brand ...
Serifims and Arch-angles
... the rule-of-thumb for fonts was to use sans-serif, lest the serifs disappear in the laces, so to speak. Now that we are entering a world of de-interlaced, HD video, does the rule still apply? Ah, tricky one – a “yes, but”/”no, if.” It wasn’t that we couldn‘t use serifs, it’s just that their details ...
Mute the Motormouths
It’s NFL season. Got a 5.1 Dolby Digital system with HD? Get tired of the insightless windbag commentators? I do. All you gotta do is reach around and unplug one of the wires from your center speaker (or just turn it off if possible). For live sporting events, all of the chatter is mixed to ...
Progressive (After All These Years)
So it looks like Sony’s new HVR-V1U ($4800) shipping in December is going to be a true progressive-scan camera. If that’s accurate, this is a very big deal in the camcorder world. Even though they offer HD resolutions, Sony cams have often been passed over in recent years in favor of Panasonic’s standard-def cameras, simply ...
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