Products: S.two By Dan Ochiva
Storage technology improvements deliver welcome features to Take2, the second generation of S.two's digital film recorder (DFR) for in-the-field capture....
Products: Innovision Optics By Dan Ochiva
Specialty optics are new to smaller-format HDV camcorders. One of the first companies to address the market, Innovision Optics, recently introduced the HD Mini Probe,...
Iconix’ HD-RH1 POV camera system includes a very robust separate camera head and processing controller unit, as well as a 3.5lb. universal HDTV controller unit, making it ideal for use in houses of worship and surveillance applications...
Matrox Axio 2.5 is now shipping. Working with Adobe Premiere NLE software, release 2.5 provides realtime native editing of MXF files for Panasonic P2, Sony XDCAM, and Sony XDCAM HD, as well as realtime native editing of JVC’s ProHD HDV 720p format. ...
Four new products complement Redrock Micro's enormously popular M2 cinema lens adapter, which allows 35mm lenses to be adapted to DV and HDV video cameras to create the depth of field, angle of view, and focus techniques previously only possible with 35mm motion picture film cameras. ...
New functionality includes support for the progressive scan modes (24A and 30 modes on the V1U/V1J/V1N camcorders, and 25 mode on the V1E/V1P/V1C camcorders) on the Sony HVR-V1 series HDV camcorders, and a built-in import module for the HVR-DR60 Hard Disk Recording Unit. With the 7.0c update, Vegas will properly handle the V1 series progressive scan modes automatically, without manual intervention. ...
Products: Blackmagic Design By Dan Ochiva
It's a fact of life: Although many bemoan the burden of built-in copy protection, the new HDMI HD monitor interconnect is in our future. ...
Products: Cinital By Dan Ochiva
Location production is expensive, and the promise of using virtual sets offers hope to anyone dealing with today's budgets....
Products: Bluefish444 By Dan Ochiva
The latest advances in ASIC technology are taking the tedium out of encoding HD. Bluefish444, for example, uses Aspex's new Accelara HD MPEG-2 encoder PCI-X card in its Rage N|Code product to deliver faster-than-realtime HD (1920×1080i60) encoding....
By Trevor Boyer
New frame rate, new name Panasonic recently announced that the AJ-HPX2000, a shoulder-mount P2 HD camcorder with 2/3in. CCDs, is getting 24p capabilities,...