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CES 2013 – My highlight from this year’s exposition: better than Apple’s retina screens and Color Reference monitors.
As expected, this new edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (aka CES) has been less than exciting. This will certainly be the year of the fitness gadgets. Everyone is trying to take on Fitbit and a few other pioneers in this domain. I will spare you the infinite list of low cost tablets to concentrate of what is, in my view, the highlight of the show for colorists in quest for a new reference display.
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The Power of Grading: understand why color correcting can take a long time
Color correcting a shot takes time. Depending on the expectations (and needs) of your clients (directors & producers alike), it can be a relative short job but for the most demanding, this can turn to be quite time consuming. Scott Maclean, an Aussie colorist guy made a very well done video demonstrating why a 30 second spot took him almost 25 hours to grade on a very high end top-of-the-line grading system (Baselight 4). See the movie after the jump!
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The best scene of The Avengers is an awesome work of post-production.
Do you remember this great scene in The Avengers? You know, the long, panning one-shot that showcases all six Avengers, working together to kick Chitauri butt all around midtown Manhattan. Remember? Good.
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Around the ‘The Hobbit’: Color Correcting ‘The Lord Of The Ring’
Have you already seen Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit? If so, you surely remember its first trilogy ‘The Lord of the Rings”. In the DVD
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Apple updates Final Cut Pro X to 10.0.7, Motion to 5.0.6 & Compressor to 4.0.6
Only a few weeks after updating Final Cut Pro X to 10.0.6, Apple updates once again Final Cut Pro X with a maintenance & bug fix release.
This update addresses the following issues (from Apple.com):
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Ashdod Port Visitor Center got a Silver Plaque at INTERCOM 2012
I’m very proud to announce that the Ashdod Port Visitor Center got a Silver Plaque in the category “Visitor Center” at INTERCOM 2012, part of the Chicago International Film Festival.
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Motorola LTE Network – A new tactical vision
Imagine that Azrieli Center, an iconic commercial building in the center of Tel-Aviv, is hit by a missile. Imagine the destruction, the panic, the confusing and the distress around the destructed site. Now remember 9/11 and how each rescue team didn’t succeed to team all together and led to more victims. What is the best way to avoid the same chaos and confusion?
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Sony to release XAVC, the missing link to UltraHD TV, licensees include Apple, Adobe and more
For some time, I was wondering how we are supposed to feed the new Ultra HD televisions that will be presented at the next CES, in january 2013. For those who don’t know yet, Ultra HD is the commercial name of what professionals call 4k which has a 3,840 x 2,160 resolution.
Sony might just announced the missing link: a new codec named XAVC. This codec, found in the new F5 & F55 CineAlta camcorders, is an open-standard based on Level 5.2 H.264 video compression with allow up to 12-bit color depth (4:4:4), 60 fps speed at 4k (!) and up to 180 fps in HD.
Sony will released this month an SDK to developers for supporting this new codec in their applications and fourteens companies are already on-board including Adobe, Apple, ASSIMILATE, FilmLight & Quantel… Sony hopes to bring this codec to consumers too.
Until I can get a hand-on this models, I’ll try to upgrade my Blu-ray to this new XAVC… until H.265 HEVC comes too…
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Noise Industries releases FxFactory 4.0 for Adobe Premiere Pro & Final Cut Pro X
New plugin platform available for Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Noise Industries announced today that visual plugin platform FxFactory 4 is now available. The new update supports Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
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KKL-JNF – 110 years of green action
The KKL-JNF is well known for the development of the land of Israel since its establishment in 1901. In 2011, they celebrated their 110 years of Green Action and asked us to create a movie to present theirs goals and actions in different fields: preservation, forestry with research, water cycling with tourism and more…
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