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A summary of currently thinking on how and why to edit 4K (high-resolution) video, along with HDR (High Dynamic Range) and Wide Color Gamut video. Interviews with Michael Cioni, Michael Whipple and Bryan McMahan.

A detailed explanation of how to configure your Mac or Windows system for audio or video editing.

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I got an email from Tiziano this morning with an increasingly common question: I’m looking forward [to] buying the new Mac Pro later this year! My question is about the external disk to use for editing all formats from DV …

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Easily a third of all the emails I get every day deal, in one form or another, with video formats, image quality, and output. Whether you edit with Final Cut, Premiere, Avid, or any other video format the issues are …

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Here’s another technical question that came in recently. Sourabh asks: I am a huge fan of your newsletters. I see you mention in quite a few newsletters burning an AVCHD disc (on a standard DVD) using FCP 7 that will …

It snowed four inches today in Dundee, Scotland, at the start of my first UK seminar. Still, we had close to 100 people brave the weather to turn our for our seminar. In spite of the weather, we still came …

Last night on the Digital Production BuZZ, we had a fascinating interview with James Salkind. Since this was Christmas evening, you may have been distracted and not able to listen. In which case, you missed a treat. James was the …

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I’ve attended, and spoken at, HDFest the last two times it visited LA. Its a great place to see what’s happening in the Indy world of HD. Marisa, the Festival Coordinator, reminds me that HDFest is returning to LA this …

You may have already noticed, but YouTube is now displaying all its videos in 16×9 format. 4×3 material is now displayed as pillar-boxed, and 16×9 material which was formerly displayed as letter-boxed is now both letter-boxed and pillar-boxed. Thanks to …

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Jan Crittenden-Livingston is the business line manager for Panasonic’s professional cameras. Recently, I had the opportunity to interview her at DV Expo 2008 about Panasonic’s move to tapeless media (the P2 card) and the impact that had on the company. …

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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 …

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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” — …

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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 …

Looking back on the old days of shooting standard-definition video… Life was easy, we only had two video formats — NTSC and PAL. Everything worked. No one complained.  (OK, so maybe there’s a rose-colored-glasses effect involved here. Stay with me.) …