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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Experimenting with the HyperDeck Shuttle
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 […]
Life is about trying new things
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 […]
New stuff
Spot the differences! I know it’s only an incremental update but you might have made some effort, Adobe. Anyway, in my opinion the new Warp Stabilizer alone is worth the price. That, and the Mercury Playback Engine is supposed to be improved.