First sneak peek FinalCutPro 8

First sneak peek FinalCutPro 8: "

Well … after months and months of speculation and waiting today the curtain did drop, at least a lil bit.
Some first screenshots and feature-details “leaked” into the Video-Editing-World:

Well what can i say it seems like some fears getting reality.
The interface looks very familiar. First big change: it will be a more mouse editing oriented  NLE-App … one more step into iOS direction i guess.

Good thing though: FCP8 will be more integrated with Motion & Co. Not just templates & “send/link to” in a drop down menu. How far this integration goes is not specified publicly yet.It will be an App Store only app … you can buy all FinalCutStudio Apps standalone or in one package – pricing will be Announced. Apple will have a Special Event one week after NAB on 19th of April.

Some first Screenshots:

Key-Features are:

- 64 bit App

- Background Rendering

- GPU acceleration

- can use up to 64 GB Ram and all CPUs avalible

- native H.246 and R3D support including RED EPIC / HDRx and many other codecs

- new Title tools

- Quicktime Pro 11

- 3D editing mode

- ProRes 4444, 12bit only

- Blu-ray, CNN iReporter,  Vimeo, MySpace support

- Single Screen / Window App

- new Edit mode’s (called “Freehand” and “Mindreader”, “Auto-Blockbuster”)

Thats it … many more infos to come soon …

So is all that a good thing? … well?!

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Robbie Carman - Color - Reconform is your friend

Robbie Carman - Color - Reconform is your friend

Troubleshoot installed codecs | Windows 7, Vista

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Big SAN in a small pond « digitalfilms

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HDRx: The Impossible Shot | fxguide

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Tiger Technology and FilmPartners Deliver a Scalable and Universal Production Workflow for Avid, Apple and Adobe

Tiger Technology and FilmPartners Deliver a Scalable and Universal Production Workflow for Avid, Apple and Adobe: "Editors can now collaborate on universal MXF-based projects and edit-in-place SD, HD and film content using their editing application of choice (Sofia, Bulgaria--March 24, 2011) Tiger Technology, a leading provider of high-performance, cross-platform SAN management software solutions and Netherlands-based FilmPartners of the international Euro Media Group announce a new strategic partnership for delivering a scalable and universal production workflow for Avid MediaComposer©, Apple Final Cut Pro©, Adobe Premiere Pro©."

ProxyMill - the encoder that can encode just about every camera format out there

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Digital Video Camera Roundup

Digital Video Camera Roundup:

New digital cameras released over the last year have brought exciting changes to the world of cinematography and videography. From ARRI’s Alexa digital cinema camera to large sensor camcorders to the 60D, Canon’s new DSLR, filmmakers and broadcast camera operators have a growing choice for features, television and commercials.

ARRI DIGITAL

CINOPTIX

CANON

JVC

PANASONIC

WEISSCAM

SONY

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DSC NorthernLights Extends Colour Tests for Digital Cinema

DSC NorthernLights Extends Colour Tests for Digital Cinema: "DSC Labs has designed NorthernLights, a new test target to help optimize image quality in
digital cinema and HD television, overcoming narrow colour gamut limitations.

Named after the Aurora Borealis light display, NorthernLights provides test elements that function well outside the Rec 709 colour space, which is useful for people working with digital cinema and other high-end camera systems. 'Camera and sensor systems have evolved beyond the level of colour saturation that can be reproduced in typical test charts,' said DSC Labs President, David Corley. “NorthernLights combines a front-lit system with self-illuminated high gamut colours, giving camera users a way to calibrate and test their cameras in colour space beyond conventional front and rear-lit techniques.' NorthernLights has front-lit 24 DSC-calibrated colour chips for accurate reference and setup to the Rec. 709 standard. It uses an 11-step spectrophotometrically neutral crossed grayscale for gamma adjustment, and horizontal/vertical hyperbolic wedges, or DSC trumpets, to test camera resolution. Upper and lower 18% gray strips check evenness of lighting, both horizontally and vertically, and controls adjust brightness and colour to balance white levels. NorthernLights will be on display at NAB 2011. www.dsclabs.com

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Avid 5.5 AMA exporting AAF now works

AVID 5.5: AMA & EXPORTING AAF NOW WORKS - Little Frog in High Def

Convergent Design’s Gemini 4:4:4 Recorder

Convergent Design’s Gemini 4:4:4 Recorder

QuickTime shows 720 video as 1248x702.

I'm Not Bruce: QuickTime shows a 720 Video as 1248 X 702

DFT Digital Film Technology Unveils FLEXXITY | Digital Production Buzz | Larry Jordan & Mike Horton

iPad 2 Beats Out MacBook Pros In iMovie Speed Tests! :: App Advice

אלרום משיקה לראשונה בישראל תוכנה להפקת כתוביות בתלת מימד

<div style="direction:rtl;text-align:right">אלרום משיקה לראשונה בישראל תוכנה להפקת כתוביות בתלת מימד</div>: "

התוכנה מציגה טכנולוגיה הנחשבת לחידוש בעולם ככלל ובישראל בפרט. עד כה לא נכנסה לשימוש תוכנה להפקה ועריכה של כתוביות בתלת מימד.

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Edit Suite Design 2011

Edit Suite Design 2011: "It’s time to revisit an old subject for a new year – configuring a post production suite. Poke through these past articles and you’ll get plenty of ideas about how to build the room and what to put in it. Another great source for inspiration is just to scan through the “Rig of the Day” [...]"

Editing HDSLR footage natively

Editing HDSLR footage natively: "With the wild success of HDSLR cameras from both Canon and Nikon, there is a renewed interest in editing H.264 media natively, using the video files that are transferred directly from the camera into your editing system. H.264 is the video format that these cameras use for capturing their images. Editing natively saves time because you don’t need to transcode your video. And H.264 files are very small, compared to other video file formats."

ICC profile cube from 3D LUT: Alexa EI350

ICC profile cube from 3D LUT: Alexa EI350: "
Steve Shaw at www.lightillusion.com has shown us a way of baking into stand alone QuickTime movies (this includes Alexa captured 4444 ProRes) a 3D LUT that is converted into an ICC Profile.

By doing this we can use Colorsync within Mac OS to apply the converted 3D LUT and burn it into the .mov file.

To do this you do require Intel Mac and QT Pro7 and also the software, called Spaceman, which will do the 3D LUT conversion for you. Once you have converted the LUT into the ICC profile you then load this profile through QT Pro7 and Colorsync and there you will have the burnt in correction for your offline and dailies.

Attached here is an ICC profile for an Alexa EI350 LUT, this 3D LUT has ben converted to an ICC profile and here is the information as a 3D cube.

Regards

Pure Digital Services

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HD Warrior » Blog Archiv » Sony to reveil 8K camera at NAB 2011

HD Warrior » Blog Archiv » Sony to reveil 8K camera at NAB 2011

Thunderbolt Technology in Action

Thunderbolt Technology in Action: "A couple of weeks ago Intel introduced a new technology for I/O use and data back ups. If you missed that information you can read all about it here. Over the past few weeks there has been a lot of buzz regarding this new technology. Thunderbolt’s ability to transfer data at 10Gbs a sec while [...]"