Avid made the jump to 64 bit in November with its mainstream Media Composer 6, Symphony 6 and NewsCutter 10 software. This highly anticipated release includes 10 cornerstone features 64-bit code, Open IO, ProRes integration (Mac only), Avid Marketplace,
The Sony PMW F3 breaks new ground in the ever growing large sensor camera marketplace. An admission to my readers I was one of several journalists present when Sony rolled out the camera in the fall of 2010. Rather than
The Panasonic HDC Z10000 is marketed as a consumer camcorder, but I beg to differ with that targeting. The Z10000 is a truly professional unit, with even a few features not usually found in cameras of this size and at
While DSLRs offer some clear advantages over traditional video cameras, they present challenges in ergonomics and monitoring. One problem is not being able to monitor live video via the ocular viewfinder as you can with most video cameras. Instead, you
Now that DSLRs have inspired a "smaller can be better" paradigm for professional HD production, a greater variety of smaller tripods are becoming available, and these are getting progressively lighter and more functional. Some of them include design features for
The Panasonic AG AC160 represents Panasonic's latest entry into the field of 1 3" CMOS sensor based AVC codec cameras, and what an entry Panasonic has managed to find the sweet spot for cameras in this price range. Based on
Over the past few years, plug in software developers have continued to evolve their packages of filters into comprehensive effects suites, complete with ready made presets to preview just how your images will appear. One of the newest of these
In a previous piece on iApps, I wrote about Ben Syverson's Catchlight, which turns your iDevice into a color corrected light source. It's an incredibly handy, versatile app that I've used a number of times for close up work in
Ninja is one of two new products by Atomos that records the uncompressed HD video stream from cameras with appropriate output ports. Ninja ($995) records directly from the camera's HDMI port, while Samurai ($1,595), the other Atomos offering, records from
Sometimes I feel like that elderly uncle who grumbles in the corner about the old days. "In my time, we didn't have…" In the near decade of my career as a cinematographer, and indeed in the decade
