Theatrical Successes
I've been missing from much of my usual online forum and twitter activities over the last 10 days, I've been flat out with the 48 Hour Film Project, my annual step in the creative side of the business....
View ArticleCanon EOS 7D
This will likely be the first Canon still camera I ever own. Had plenty of Canon video cameras, but I've been a Pentax guy for years (my lens collection has kept me there,) but the video features of...
View ArticleDPX-C: Compressed DPX as a New File Type
I'm am enlisting your help (testers needed) -- details at the end of this post *.For many years now, fans of CineForm compression have been wanting a single frame version in addition to streaming...
View ArticleDisplaying Metadata
Just before the Thanksgiving break, CineForm released new betas for the Neo and Prospect product lines (http://tr.im/FNSb.) These have a new feature that we have been planning for ages (years it...
View Article30 Megapixel CineForm
This post showcases one of the many applications for the CineForm codec. BrainSalt Media uses CineForm decoders to drive 16 seamlessly tiled projectors on a 250 square meter curve screen for an awesome...
View ArticleAutomatic remote color corrections with FirstLight and Dropbox
CineForm color and 3D corrections tool FirstLight is completely database driven, with no need to render any element. Yet we want to share color corrections and other database changes we do need to...
View ArticleBack from NAB 2010
Each year I have traditionally headed back one day before the show ends as I'm normally completely exhausted and have lost my voice (I'm of little use in booth presentations.) While by voice is at 50%,...
View ArticleCamera licensing for compression
The recent archive on osnews.com by Eugenia Loli-Queru has created quite a stir, revealing that camera licensing from MPEG-LA (for MPEG2 and AVCHD encoding) is for "personal use and non-commercial"...
View ArticlePhish 3D concert film, a CineForm Neo 3D project
Please check out Studio Daily's great writeup on using Neo3D within FCP to edit and online Phish 3D. This film was finished well before Neo3D v5 was out, but thanks to an excellent partnership with the...
View ArticleWhen is camera Raw, Raw?
I posted this in response to recent thread on CML, but seems it might be of interest to others, so it is reproduced here:----Whether RAW is from a CFA Bayer sensor, vertical striped sensor, or three...
View ArticleFilm Festival in a Box
.. a box with an external fan on high.This blog entry discusses how we at CineForm successfully presented the San Diego 48 Hour Film Project in HD (for the fourth year,) while the 90 other city...
View ArticleWhy use an intermediate for DSLR video?
I had two inquiries today on using native DSLR in today's modern NLEs vs CineForm intermediates. Both these users who knew to use CineForm for finishing, multi-generation and effects renders, but...
View ArticleCamera RAW to CineForm RAW
For a while now I've been wanting to finish a Camera RAW to CineForm RAW converter, so after the long weekend of Thanksgiving, I've completed the first pass. As CineForm RAW is a motion format and...
View ArticleFollow up on the Camera RAW to CineForm RAW
Now that you have your Camera RAW images in a CineForm RAW file (see last post), remember to set the demosaicing quality/look in FirstLight. There are currently 9 different demosaicing filters to...
View ArticleStopmotion / Timelapse Stereo RAW conversions
In the last few posts I have enhanced to support for camera RAW to CineForm RAW conversions, and this feature was released as part of the Windows Neo4K or Neo3D builds yesterday (Dec 09, 2010.) The...
View ArticleAnother overstatement that 3D won't work.
Roger Ebert, blog post : Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed. with the help of Walter Murch, tries to use some science to explain that 3D won't ever work, but gets the science wrong.Here is...
View ArticleGoPro and CineForm
I know I own everyone a nice long blog entry on the recent GoPro acquisition of CineForm. Yes the team at CineForm is very pleased about this. In the meantime (with NAB so near), I there is no way can...
View ArticleMy annual FreshDV NAB interview
See me exhausted after 4 days of our most exciting NAB every, discussing some of the impact of the GoPro acquisition of CineForm (yes it was that way around, we had many express their surprise that we...
View ArticleCurves - CineStyle and S-Log, a workflow choice.
The tweets have coming fast with lots of recent activity around shooting curves, particular with the release of Technicolor's CineStyle (tm) profile for Canon DSLRs. I'm all for specialized encoding...
View ArticleMVC 3D cameras
We are starting to see a range of cool new 3D consumer cameras, like the Sony HDR-TD10 and the JVC GS-TD1, both great companion units to a GoPro 3D Hero setup. ;) The new Sony and JVC cameras record to...
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