Production Apprentice

Panasonic’s New HPX 600 Camcorder

John DeMaio — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:25:34 +0000

Panasonic had a few new announcements this year – first off is their new HPX 600 camcorder. It is being touted at the lightest shoulder-mounted 2/3 inch camcorder available. It sports the new 2/3 CMOS sensor and will be upgradeable for new features in the future like AVC-Ultra support, and recording to proxy files. It [...]

Blackmagic Debuts a New Cinema Camera

John DeMaio — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:14:31 +0000

Blackmagic released a new cinema camera at NAB this year that promises to provide filmmakers with a better contrast range, better compression and an overall better experience. From the press release: The Blackmagic Cinema Camera includes a super wide 13 stops of dynamic range, large 2.5K sensor, integrated SSD recorder that has the bandwidth to capture CinemaDNG [...]

Avid Steps Into the Cloud at NAB 2012

John DeMaio — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:25:13 +0000

The crowds are thick here at NAB 2012’s Booth #SU902. People are shoulder-to-shoulder trying to take a peak at Avid’s largest product announcement at this conference in over a decade. The booth itself is enough to stir a sense of excitement in even the most Luddite of tech users. The displays are larger than life and I’m slowly making my way to each smaller display to wrap my head around the new family of products and services they are offering. I have to say: This is going to change everything.

The All New Autodesk Smoke

John DeMaio — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:34:13 +0000

It looks like Autodesk is stepping up to try to capture that market share of editors that felt “abandoned” by the release of FCP X last year. Even though Apple is releasing new updates for FCP X bringing it closer to how FCP 7 used to be, there is still a void in that market [...]

Pluraleyes for FCP X

John DeMaio — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:00:57 +0000

PluralEyes for FCP X is out and ready to help with all of your syncing needs. You may be wondering why you might need PluralEyes for FCP X considering that FCP X has it’s own ability to synchronize clips within the application. I shared your same skepticism, however, if you dig in and do a [...]

Moving to FCP X without giving up FCP 7

John DeMaio — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:17:13 +0000

I decided to take the plunge today and purchase FCP X after giving the trial a once-over. I get a lot of work for both Avid and FCP 7 but lately I have been asked about FCP X – so it’s time to start learning something new. I don’t have a great deal of experience yet, [...]

Avid Media Composer 6 is everything they said it would be…

John DeMaio — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:38:40 +0000

When I first heard the news about Media Composer 6, I was genuinely excited. It has been a long time since an NLE has given me a reason to look forward to its release. After the release of FCP X, I realized (along with everyone else in the professional film and video world) that I [...]

Canon’s C300 Used by Laforet on His Latest Short – Mobius

Joe Dorsey — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:24:11 +0000

As you may have heard, the twittergeist/blogosphere was blowing up yesterday based on two big announcements. One by Canon, one by Red. Both companies revealed new digital cinematography cameras aimed at budding and established filmmakers. Canon’s C300 was widely anticipated since the company’s 5D/7D DSLRs have been all the rage for videographers for several years – [...]

Avid Media Composer 6.0 comes out swinging

John DeMaio — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:36:58 +0000

Big announcement from Avid today that has me thinking there might be changes to every FCP post house in the country. At the very least, it will be a hefty battle between Avid and Adobe for the existing FCP 7.0 users that felt a bit left out in the cold from the launch of the [...]

Steve, Thanks -Me

Joe Dorsey — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:14:30 +0000

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is [...]