An unbelievably cool old school slow motion film of the engines of a Saturn V rocket launch. The commentary really makes this entertaining for the nearly 9 minutes of video which only took 30 seconds of real time.
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.
Here’s an abbreviated April linkage. With NAB 2010 right in the middle of the month there hasn’t been much time to collect links.
FreshDV has all the video coverage from NAB 2010 so there won’t be a lot of links here as they cover almost everything cool.
Pro Video Coalition posted a lot in NAB RealTime as well.
The big Adobe CS5 launch is all right here.
Avid introduced Media Composer 5. Here’s a good, shaky feature video. Avid also did a “cloud” based, online browser based editing demo that was very cool. A podcast is available here.
You can now get a Matrox MXO2 Mini and have it work with the Media Composer 5.
DaVinci Resolve is now cheap. There’s a COW discussion on using it with a RED Rocket as well.
Hmm, an HD field monitor made especially for DSLRs.
Maybe there will be an iPad color grading surface.
This new Arri Alexa digital cinema camera will be at NAB and have it’s own conference session.
Walter Biscardi talks about those 3 A’s of post.
As always Oliver Peters has some great random impressions of NAB 2010. Discrete Cosine does too.
And check out the archived stream of the SuperMeet here. Yes you can see the Final Cut Pro product manager stand on-stage and say he has a secret but then proceed to tell the audience no secret at all.
And for iPad:
If you haven’t read the exhaustive iPad user manual under your Safari bookmarks on the iPad here’s the online pdf version.
Of course they asked if the iPad will blend.
The iPad for video businesses.
These are 8 great cool iPad wallpaper pranks.
Here’s an iPad piece about Final Cut Pro and screen sharing.
Camera for iPad looks cool.
Want to see an iPad being torn down?
A nice 48-point iPad review after 72 hours.
Wordpress made an iPad app and shows you how they did it.
Of course iLounge did an iPad review.
The iPad pixel doubling if iPhone apps is addressed in this article.
iDisplay looks like a cool way to extend your desktop if it really works.
TechCrunch’s best iPad apps at launch.
Word also came that the legendary editor Dede Allen passed away over the weekend. The Fine Cut has a nice collection of YouTube clips to celebrate her career.
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Avid’s web-based editing demo
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Media being served in real time and streamed to NAB in Las Vegas
DaVinci control surface
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Add $20,000
DaVinci Resolve Software $995
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Very clever. Very cool.
The 2010 NAB convention begins in less than a week. In exactly one week (from the time this was posted) many of us will be attending the 9th annual Las Vegas SuperMeet. It will be held at the Rio Hotel again this year and from the looks of the world famous raffle that’s going to be reason to enough to attend with over $78,000 in prizes. Giveaways will include a Canon 7D (of course!), an AJA Kona 3 and AJA Breakout box (maybe separate, maybe together), an Apple iPad (of course again), nVidia Quadro FX 4800 forMac graphics card, two Blackmagic Design DeckLink Studio cards and software galore including a Final Cut Studio, Adobe CS4 Production Premium, Maxon Cinema 4D Broadcast edition and a copy of Avid Media Composer. It’s crazy to think about Avid and Adobe products at the FCP User Group SuperMeet but this is a big year for the 3 Big A’s at the SuperMeet. According to organizer Mike Horton this will be the first time that representatives from all three big A’s will appear together on the same stage on the same night.
As of right now it looks like we might see Adobe’s Jason Levine highlighting the new capabilities of Adobe Production Premium CS5, Avid’s Angus Mackay introducing editor and filmmaker Misha Tenenbaum who will explore his use of the AMA plugin architecture with Sony XDCam HD and Canon 7D cameras for his new show, “Handicapped John” and Apple’s FCP Sr. Product Manager Steve Bayes returning to the SuperMeet stage to talk about new partner support for ProRes and Stereo 3D. That’s going to make for an interesting SuperMeet. Plus there’s a number of other presenters that will be onstage next week as well.
Grab your tickets at this link before they are all gone. And if you want to show off your content get there early for a new event called the Open Screen Theatre sponsored by Arri.From the SuperMeet website:
GET SEEN and interact with other Filmmakers via “Open Screen Theatre,” sponsored by ARRI.
Filmmakers and digital content creators wanting to get seen will have a a 10 minute chance to do so in an informal, collaborative setting. We want all Digital filmmakers to screen your content and interact. Just show up and sign up, get up and show off. It’s first come, first serve in our “Open Screen Theatre.”
Bring your content on a DVD or a QT movie on a flash drive. Sign-ups begin at 3:45PM.
Definitely click over and look at that list of raffle prizes. There’s some really good stuff in there. See you in a week!
3G video upload test
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40 seconds
Be sure you are all backed up before you install the Mac OS X 10.6.3 update or the Pro Applications Update 2010-01 that was recently released.
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I just posted a piece over at the Editblog on PVC about one of my upcoming classes that I will be leading at this year’s NAB convention: Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Editors. If you’re an FCP editor curious about the competition then this class is for you. It’s on Tuesday, 4/13/2010 from 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM. Get registered for the Post|Production World conference if you want to attend.
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