Author Archives: Robin

I recently shot a music video for a bach­e­lorette party. I can’t upload the video because (1) it con­tains copy­righted music (the Extra Fes­tive ver­sion of Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christ­mas Is You’) and I don’t really need any law­suits right now, and (2) I heard that song like 70 times the last […]

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So, I shot a sim­ple scene this evening: a sparkler, my Sony PMW-EX1 (over­cranked to 60fps), and the Shut­tle. The dif­fer­ences are pretty pro­nounced, there’s slightly more detail, less noise and less com­pres­sion arti­facts in the uncom­pressed footage. It’s also pretty huge, see pre­vi­ous post. I think the footage looks nice and the Shut­tle is nice […]

Like, for instance, a Black­magic Design Hyper­Deck Shut­tle. After wait­ing for it to become avail­able and then wait­ing a lit­tle bit more for the (cus­tom made) cables to arrive, I’m finally ready to go out & see what’s what. Ini­tial find­ings: firstly, uncom­pressed HD video is, unsur­pris­ingly, insanely large (34:16 sec­onds @ 1920*1080*25fps = 4.868.530.254 […]