Where do babies come from? In Dumbo, storks drop them off. But when Peter Sohn was a child, that wasn’t good enough. He wanted to know where the birds got those babies. That scene and that movie had more resonance than that for the director of Partly...
AJA has released a free iPhone app called AJA DataCalc (iTunes link).
It’s a stand-alone application that calculates hard drive requirements for a variety of formats including ProRes, DVCProHD, HDV, XDCAM, DV, Uncompressed and more. Resolutions...
It’s surely coincidence that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences happened to announce its narrow list of 15 semifinalists for the VFX Oscar the day after James Cameron’s Avatar started screening widely for critics and industry insiders. Any...
The guys over a Digital Rebellion have been on a roll. Among lots of other utilities they recently introduced FCS Maintenance Pack which is a big set of utilities designed to “keep your Final Cut Studio machine running at optimal performance and help...
At the Linwood Dunn Theatre in Hollywood, Sony introduced its next generation of SR technology to a group of cinematographers, some of whom spoke to the group about their use of Sony’s tape format or, as Sony now calls it, “a process and a platform...
