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Red Digital Cinema Workflow Case Study  

STAFF REPORT

Director Brandon Dickerson had seven days to shoot and post the music video promo for the upcoming Disney release The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. ...

Software Field Monitors, Part 1 

By Jan Ozer

One of the coolest product categories in the HDV@Work space is software programs that provide video scopes, a large preview monitor, direct-to-disc recording capabilities (DDR), and other features. In this issue, I'll introduce you to the category of products and illustrate and explain some of their benefits...

Know Your Formats, Part 2 

By Jan Ozer

This month, we’re tackling high-definition video formats. In the first segment, I discussed what aspect ratio is and why you care about it. In this issue, I’ll discuss the remaining items of the features table...

Rob Hummel on Dalsa’s Plans 

Despite the wide respect for the image clarity made possible by the digital imaging sensor technology created by Dalsa, as most industry watchers know by now, the company has struggled in recent years to launch its Origin 4K camera into the motion-picture business. ...

Know Your Formats, Part 1 

By Jan Ozer

Many digital shooters started with DV video, which hammered the nail in the analog-video coffin and democratized video production by dropping the price of capturing very good video from $25,000 (Betacam SP camera and deck)...

Audio Podcast: Sean Fairburn's F23 Musings 

As Sony’s F23 camera system continues to excite the cinematography community and infiltrate into the world of feature filmmaking, one of the members of that community particularly excited about the camera is cinematographer B. Sean Fairburn ...

Creative Draw 

By Trevor Boyer

Philadelphia is the sixth-largest city in the United States, but, overshadowed by its neighbors, it's not even a regional capital. A two-hour drive to...

Audio Podcast: Cutting Iron Man in HD 

Editor Dan Lebental, A.C.E., recently chatted with millimeter about his recent work cutting the newest entry into the superhero feature-film sweepstakes—Marvel’s Iron Man...

Have You Hugged Your Metadata Today? Part 2 

By Jan Ozer

In the last segment, I extolled the virtues of Panasonic’s P2 cards and the Material eXchange Format (MXF) used thereon. In this segment I review Adobe’s P2 and MXF workflow. Just to change things up, I’ll write this segment as a FAQ, rather than a narrative, which will identify the questions I feel are key to any implementation of P2/MXF support...