from Sony
In this webinar you’ll discover how you can use the Sony Creative Software Home Studio line of movie and music-making tools to create and share the joy of the holiday season.
How to create the perfect holiday video
Freddie Wong Special Effects Video
from FreddieW
We pay tribute to this classic animated GIF of a bygone internet era! http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/
…but done in real life!
Also, make sure to check out our article on how to make a video like Freddie Wong.
World’s Smallest, and World’s Largest Stop-Motion Films
World’ smallest stop-motion film
World’s biggest stop-motion film
Making-of the world’s biggest stop motion film
JVC Everio GS-TD1 Best 3D Camera of 2011
from Trusted Reviews
With the most accomplished consumer 3D camcorder yet, JVC has taken the lead over all other manufacturers. The Everio GS-TD1 can shoot Full HD frames for each eye, giving it the best 3D image quality on the market. Currently, only the software supplied can take full advantage of the resolution, but this is still the best 3D camcorder currently on the market.
We currently have the JVC Everio GS-TD1 on sale!
Unboxing the Manfrotto 701HDV Fluid Video Head
“Here’s a quick unboxing of the Manfrotto 701HDV Pro Fluid VIdeo Mini Head along with the 190XV Tripod.”
Check out our huge range of Manfrotto products.
Manfrotto 540HD wins at the Red Dot Design Awards 2011
via Manfrotto
One of the most prestigious international design competitions has awarded seven prizes to the historic company from Vicenza, recognising the quality and excellence of Italian design
Manfrotto, the world leader in the design, production and distribution of equipment and accessories for the photography and imaging industry, has won seven prizes at one of the world’s most prestigious design competitions: the Red Dot Design Award 2011. The prizes were awarded to products from the new Imagine More collection:
- Manfrotto Photo-movie head
- Manfrotto Always-on for DSLR
- Manfrotto 050 magnesium series ball head
- Manfrotto Pocket Led light
- Manfrotto Compact photo-video Kit
- Manfrotto 504HD
- Manfrotto LINO PRO V
The Imaging & Staging Division of the Vitec Group, Manfrotto’s UK-based parent company, also won an eighth prize, which was awarded to the KATA brand for KATA Source.
According to the authoritative jury of the Red Dot Design Award, composed of top international design experts, the unique and innovative design of these eight products stood out in a competition that attracted 4.433 projects submitted by designers and companies from 60 countries.
The significant results achieved at the Red Dot Design Award 2011 by Manfrotto – and the Vitec Group in general – represent further recognition of the quality of Italian design: a success that the company is proud to share with the entire sector, which has been the emblem of Italian excellence around the world for years.
Manfrotto products reflect the qualities of a team of professionals who are unique in this industry and are committed, day after day, to developing innovative and state-of-the-art products. Ongoing research into new trends and technological innovation has helped the Manfrotto team gain the attention, favour and loyalty of a large national and international public, as demonstrated by the important recognition of the Red Dot Design Award 2011.
The awards ceremony will be held on 4 July 2011 at the prestigious Essen Opera House (Germany), which is also the location of the Red Dot Museum. A permanent exhibition of the winning products, with explanatory panels, will be set up in the museum. The innovative articles will also be published and illustrated in the annual Red Dot Design Yearbook and at the www.red-dot.de website.
Learn more about the Manfrotto 540HD
Color Temperature & Color Rendering Index Demystified
Lowel Lighting have written a great article that takes the confusion out of colour temperature and color rendering index.
Color Temperature Defined
Color temperature has been described most simply as a method of describing the color characteristics of light, usually either warm (yellowish) or cool (bluish), and measuring it in degrees of Kelvin (°K).
That’s a little too simple to be of more than introductory value.
A more technical definition assigns a numerical value to the color emitted by a light source, measured in degrees of Kelvin. The Kelvin Color Temperature scale imagines a black body object— (such as a lamp filament) being heated. At some point the object will get hot enough to begin to glow. As it gets hotter its glowing color will shift, moving from deep reds, such as a low burning fire would give, to oranges & yellows, all the way up to white hot. Light sources that glow this way are called “incandescent radiators”, and the advantage to them is that they have a continuous spectrum. This means that they radiate light energy at all wavelengths of their spectrum, therefore rendering all the colors of a scene being lit by them, equally. Only light from sources functioning this way can meet the truest definition of color temperature.
The above is not a true Color Temperature chart. Instead it is a hybrid, showing the color temperatures of light sources most commonly encountered in professional imaging. In our scale, tungsten-halogen has a color temperature of 3200°K. Household fluorescents are accepted to be around 4500°K, depending on the lamp.
Read the whole article here
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JVC Releases World’s First 3D Camcorder
JVC today announced the availability of a new 3D consumer camcorder, the first on the consumer market that offers 3D video recording in Full High Definition. The new JVC GS-TD1 uses two camera lenses and two imaging sensors – one for each lens – to capture three-dimensional images in much same way that human eyes work.
3D video shot using the GS-TD1 can be viewed in 3D on any 3D TV. What’s more, the camcorder can shoot 3D video that can be burned to a Blu-ray disc or DVD-R for 3D playback on a compatible Blu-ray player.
The camcorder uses a F1.2 JVC 3D Twin HD GT Lens that sets a new standard in high-resolution lenses, with extra-low-dispersion glass for crisp, high-contrast images, as well as multiple aspherical lenses for fine image reproduction. The combination of the fast F1.2 lens and the back-illuminated CMOS sensors provides the GS-TD1 with outstanding low light performance. The GS-TD1 also features round iris diaphragms that enable beautiful bokeh effect (background blurring) shooting of video and stills alike.
Read the whole press release at the JVC site.
Be one of the first people in Australian to own a JVC 3D camcorder.
Guided Tour of the Atomos Ninja
Atomos Ninja demonstration from UrbanFox.TV on Vimeo.
Atomos CEO Jeromy Young demonstrates ALL the controls and menu items on the new Atomos Ninja, and gives a guided tour of everything that comes in the case with the HDMI recorder.
He also announces the forthcoming release of an HD-SDI version, the Samurai.
