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Panasonic has just introduced the AG-MSU10 P2 storage device that finally makes it “affordable” and practical to offload P2 media in the field. For years now, our production company has lugged around a PC laptop and USB harddrive to every P2 shoot, in order to offload the material to free up cards. This is mostly [...]

Good news is you’re the lead. Bad news is you’re alone. Take your tums. It’s going to be a long day.

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House bill 697 – Aka  The Entertainment Industry Economic Development Bill.
This bill, brought to the floor by  Steve “The Situation” Precourt** and “Fightin” Mike Haridopolos**, whom I’m ashamed to admit I just heard of today, is the boldest attempt to save us from the 24 frame-per-second car wreck that is/was the Florida film industry.   In [...]

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I finally got around to trying out Sorenson Squeeze 6, and I feel like I’ve been encoding in the stone ages prior to using it. Basically, it takes everything in and puts everything out ,without going into the myriad of specific codecs you can find on Sorenson’s site. The best part about it though, is that [...]

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Remember when everybody just used BetaSP?  I don’t.  Technically, I’m too young, but I fantasize about it everyday.  I realize that according to Bob Marley “Nothing can stop the times,” but I digress.
Canon has just announced a new codec they’ll be utilizing in some new camcorders coming soon.  Here’s the skinny.  It’s 4:2:2 color sampling. [...]

Remember when these guys were a start up search engine? Is altavista still around?

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Panasonic has just unveiled the first Bluray recorder with HD-SDI input, SD reader and USB input.  What does this mean for us in production?  Not sure.  We always have a DVD burner in our rack for the many situations when we just want to play out from the timeline and forgo any kind of menu [...]

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Photo company Brando has come up with a super inexpensive, lens mounted, flash ring for DSLR cameras.  It runs on AA batteries and is pretty much only useful for macro photography.  What do you want for $58?
You can use it in half ring mode or full, and it fits a variety of mount sizes.  Check [...]

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From the makers of the $30 IKEA dolly, comes this handy-dandy lamp dimmer that could be used on almost every single shoot I do.  Once you light and expose your subject often times there’s a practical light in the background that’s too bright.  Sure, you could bring a bunch of different low wattage bulbs with [...]

Sony unveils their first AVCHD “Pro” NXR-NX5U solid state camera line.