Archive for the 'Equipment' Category

ABC’s Family Channel GRΣΣK Workflow: Super 16mm film → HDCAM → AVID

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Todd Ulman Associate Producer on ABC Family Channel’s hit show GRΣΣK is responsible for designing the post workflow and making sure that it remains efficient. He explains the workflow:
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SMPTE investigates stereoscopic 3-D home entertainment

Monday, July 21st, 2008

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers is starting a significant initiative that could help to propel the stereoscopic 3-D home entertainment industry forward. The international standards-setting body will create […]

WOW! A 4K Projection system: MacBook Pro, AJA’s Io HD, and the Sony 4K Digital Cinema Projector

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Keith Collea, co-writer and producer for The Gene Generation, also served as technical supervisor for the project. He used AJA’s Io HD as an integral part of a fully portable movie projection system that allowed the film to be projected on a Sony 4K digital cinema projector at the American Film Institute’s Mark Goodson Theater […]

Red Digital Cinema Workflow Case Study

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Director Brandon Dickerson had seven days to shoot and post the music video promo for the upcoming Disney release The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The concept was to take the […]

“The curse of 24 frames per second” — James Cameron probes the Hi-Tech future of movies

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Ah, James Cameron — a biblical scholar he ain’t — but a hi-tech leader in the film industry he is. In some ways he tries to out-Lucas George Lucas by praising the latest and greatest film gadgetry, primarily as a way of promoting his upcoming movie using that gadgetry (whatever it may be, Avatar, […]

Studio Lights Installed!

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

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Secrets of the Anamorphic!

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Here’s a little video I’ve been wanting to do since Film Production purchased a used 16mm anamorphic lens. Using it we can actually demonstrate in class how anamorphic shooting works, using our 16 mm Bolex film cameras and 16 mm projectors.
If you’ve ever wanted to see in detail how the anamorphic film workflow happens, […]

Time Lapse footage from the earlier post

Monday, April 14th, 2008

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Time Lapse Demo

Monday, April 14th, 2008

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Canon XL H1 Camera

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Here’s a short video about our new HD camera, the Canon XL H1. We purchased the H1 out of a range of possible cameras from Panasonic, Sony and JVC because of three considerations:

Since we already own a Canon XL1 and an XL1s, many of the same accessories will work with the H1, including our […]