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  Cinedeck Extreme is the creme de la creme for recording footage

  February 15, 2011 / Blogs, Dave's Blog, Product, Reviews

  Ingenuity. Listening to the customer. Cutting-edge. These are all words that to me describe Cinedeck the makers of Cinedeck Extreme. This amazing “on the go” field recorder will make any filmmaker or videographer fall in love with it at first glance. Once they use it they are hooked forever! Yes I too have tried many external recorders. Some work for a while. Others had a complicated workflow. This recorder is the real deal. So what is this Cinedeck Extreme? Cinedeck [...]

  

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  Ikan continues to push the bar with its new VX9 LCD Monitor

  February 13, 2010 / News, Product, Product Review, Reviews

  

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  The Foundry Does It Again! (Part One)

  December 7, 2009 / Blogs, Plug Ins, Product, Product Review, Reviews

  Last month, I was introduced to the superb Keylight plug-in for Final Cut Pro (see And, The Academy Award® Goes To… An Instruction Manual!?! and Enter The Foundry: Visual Effects Software That Is Unbeatable!). After completing my examination of that excellent add-on, I began to study FurnaceCore, which is another superb plug-in for Final Cut Pro that was created by the Academy Award®-winning software-developer, The Foundry.* This plug-in provides tools for image restoration, correction, and stylization, all of which vastly [...]

  

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  The Foundry Does It Again! (Part Two)

  December 7, 2009 / Blogs, Plug Ins, Product, Product Review, Reviews

  If you do not have the time to read this entire review, then here are the vital statistics: Product Name: FurnaceCore Product Manufacturer: The Foundry Product Type: motion-picture repair, improvement, and time-adjustment plug-in for Final Cut Pro Price: 500 United States Of America Dollars Is It Worth The Price? Definitely. It would still be worth the price if it cost 7,000 USD (which would be 1,000 USD per function). Available From: www.thefoundry.co.uk Rating: 5 Stars!

  

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  The Death of DOF Adapters

  November 25, 2009 / 5D Mark II, 7D, Applications, Blogs, Canon, Filmmaking, Hardware, Ikan, Letus, Panasonic, Product, Product Review, RedRock Micro, Reviews

  Image by mickiky via Flickr Shallow Depth of Field For the filmmaker, HD camcorders gave us the freedom to shoot without the expense of film and development cost.   The drawback was the inability to achieve shallow depth of field.  With a fixed lens HD camcorder,  everything is in focus down to the smallest detail.  In the late 90s, filmmakers using HD video, were forced to use tricks such as lighting in layers with the subject lit the brightest.  Without these [...]

  

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• Two Cameras at the Crossroads: 5D Mark II or 7D

  November 13, 2009 / Blogs, Filmmaking, Hardware, News, Product, Product Review, Reviews

  In September, I had an opportunity to do some shooting with the 5D for the first time as we had a demo unit in our office for a trade show.  I took it for Labor Day weekend and instantly fell in love.  I’ve been shooting video since 1990 and have always had some form of video camera in my arsenal mostly for short films.  For larger projects I always rented gear.

  

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