To say that the whole Blu-ray Disc situation is a mess does not begin to describe the chaos in which the independent producer is caught. We can shoot HD. We can edit HD. We can output HD. But when it …
When Apple discontinued supporting FireWire on their low-end MacBooks recently, I was disappointed, but not surprised. Apple has been threatening to do this for a while. I just think this is enormously short-sighted. The need to connect external peripherals does …
According to a recent report in Broadcasting & Cable, ABC is converting the distribution of its network programming from an MPEG-2-based system to a more bandwidth efficient MPEG-4 advanced compression. The transition will take about three months to complete. This …
I’ve been traveling around the country for the last two months, talking about the impact of tapeless and high-definition video on video editors. Generally, I begin each session by talking about how “the world is moving to high-definition video” — …
Over on KenStone.net, Andrew Balis has written an interesting article on how Final Cut Pro handles displaying image quality. You can read it here. I’ve been getting a lot of questions recently asking why images look different in the Canvas …
Recently, I wrote about a potential problem with losing data on hard drives which are powered off and sitting on a shelf. (You can read the entire article here.) The basic problem is that when a hard disk is powered …
The Digital Production BuZZ is one of the oldest, if not THE oldest, podcasts still going. Next week, Oct. 16, we celebrate our 200th show! This is pretty darn amazing! The show started in December of 2005 as the DV …
One of the nice things about getting back in the office after being on the road for a while is catching up on all the reading I didn’t have time to do while traveling. For instance, there is a fascinating …
I like Editshare. As a company they make some intriguing products. And, for Final Cut editors looking to share media and projects, its worth a close look. However, in a recent email blast from StudioBytes, they included a quote from …
Jody Eldred sent me the following links a few days ago, with these comments: Look what a guy just shot with the Canon EOS 5D digital SLR still camera. It shoots full-res, 1920×1080 1080P/30 high definition video. 21 megapixels. 12 …
