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This video shot on the Phantom Flex makes all sorts of stupid activities look amazing. Don’t try this at home though.
[via FortySeven Media]
Check out this video of ballet dancers shot at 1000fps for some super slow motion action.
[via PetaPixel]
If you use Final Cut Pro X, Motion or After Effects, this video is worth a watch. FxFactory offers a ton of plug-in options for FCP X and has a very slick integration and installation. There are several plug-ins that are free and useful, so it’s worth a look even if you only spring for the free plug-ins.
Conan O’Brien’s editing staff put together a fun little video (seen below) that talks about Adobe’s upcoming Premiere Pro CS6. In it, they take some jabs at both Apple’s Final Cut Pro X, as well as a couple of digs at AVID. Additionally, we get a little bit of a look at the new CS6 interface. [Read more…]
The above video shows off some of the real world potential of Thunderbolt. With the combination of a RED Rocket card and a Sonnet PCIe expansion chassis, even a little MacBook Air can chew through 4K RED footage at full resolution.
It was good to see some Thunderbolt products at CES 2012 finally starting to trickle into the market. See coverage for LaCie, G-Tech and Western Digital for other Thunderbolt devices.
The JVC GY-HMQ10 is a new 4K camcorder, which captures the full 3840 x 2160 resolution at 24p, 30p and 60p frame rates. Yeah, 60p at 4K…
The HMQ10 features a 1/2.3″ CMOS sensor at a true 8.2MP for pixel-to-pixel rendering of the 4K image. It is equipped with a fixed 10x zoom lens with an f/2.8 minimum aperture (f/4.5 at full tele).
Check out this quick overview video from the CES 2012 show floor. [Read more…]
The upcoming GoPro WiFi Bacpac ($100 retail) allows you to control up to 50 GoPro cameras at a time from up to 900′ in open air. [Read more…]
Deep inside the Technicolor booth at CES 2012 was a small table showing off some new color correction software from the same company that brought CineStyles to our Canon HDSLRs last year.
Technicolor CineLights is a program based on Technicolor’s award-winning DP Lights system and is intended for quick color correction such as dailies. It’s not really intended as a finish grading tool; however, it does offer some keying, three-way color correction and a Look Library as part of CineLooks. [Read more…]
Remember the above cool time lapse video from the International Space Station. NASA has now given us a behind the scenes look from the ISS.
Astronaut Mike Fossum talks us through his thoughts on photography from space and how the Nikon D3 (NASA is a big fan of Nikon) allows them to take incredible images at night. Check it out in the video below. [Read more…]
CrumplePop is now offering SplitScreen X Lite for free. It’s a nice little splitscreen plugin for FCP X. It includes 3 splitscreen templates with adjustable bar width and the ability to scale any screen independently.
Get it free on CrumplePop’s website.