February 29th, 2008
Tools
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As much as I don’t like push-button colour-correction boxes as a rule, I’ve also seen enough live television to understand the need for them. Live broadcasts tend to have little (if any) thought to colour given to them beyond the parameters the camera operator set when she first switched the camera on. The problem with […]
February 26th, 2008
Articles
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Well, the red camera shoot, “Padded Cell” (Entitled Productions, Dir. Andrew Martin, DOP Simon Dennis), is in the can– it was a very interesting experience.
There were a few oddities about the camera itself- there is no back focus plane indicator anywhere on the camera body, so our focus puller had to manually measure where it was […]
February 14th, 2008
Opinion
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Next week will be my first experience of working with a Red camera- you know, the one everyone keeps talking about? There seem to be a lot of people evangelising workflows and so on, but very few people actually using any (or at least, these are the people keeping quiet about it). Part of this […]
February 7th, 2008
News
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I’m starting work on another book (to be published by Focal Press), this time on using digital post-production to solve problems that arise during a production.
If you have a tip or technique for an area of post-production, whether it’s a great way to recover over-exposed shots, or fixing digital drop-out, and you would like to […]
February 7th, 2008
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Peter Maurer’s File List… makes renaming large numbers of files (like, oh, DPX sequences for instance) a snap.
Drag in some files or folders into the main window and set the type of operation to perform. There are a lot of presets available, like renaming extensions, renumbering, or doing search-and-replace type stuff. Those of you who […]
