It’s quite simple. Stop what you are doing, make a large coffee and watch these two videos. Never before has Randy Ubillos, the creator of the original Final Cut Pro and FCPX, gone into so much detail about the history of NLE software development. We publish the two part recording of Randy’s chat with Michael Horton at the recent LACPUG 18th birthday anniversary meeting.
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In the Olde Days, when hard disks were connected to computers by FireWire, we could select storage based upon capacity and price. Why? Because, fast though the FireWire protocol seemed at the time, it was slower than the speed of the hard disks connected through it.
The scope of differing equipment and applications that have adopted NDI® is breathtaking. Everything from media storage servers to real-time graphics production systems to Microsoft’s ubiquitous calling system, Skype, is including NewTek’s bi-directional technology for IP transport of video, audio, metadata and communications.
The first thing to know about the myriad of “RAW” and “RAW-like” codecs is that each of them sets out with the same goal in mind: to record full or near-full sensor readout without encoding any user-defined settings in the footage. This information — such as ISO, white balance, and color space — is saved in a separate metadata file to be used in an NLE.
A directing mistake sparked Grace Church to develop a video philosophy. The result is a common language to communicate what success looks like to the staff and volunteer video team.
Meet Novus Select, a still and video production network of over 250 visual artists from around the world representing a range of specialties and skill sets.
As the team grows, so does their data needs. See how the team was able to break through scaling barriers with the help of G-Technology solutions.
In 2017, Atomos also release their largest on-set recorder, the Sumo 19 (recorder) and Sumo19m (monitor). All of their products host beautiful and bright HDR screens and assist in recording HDR video in a multitude of formats, from Apple ProRes, Avid DNxHR and RAW(with the higher end models), directly to affordable SSD drives.
With the multitude of different media file formats and codecs available in the industry, it is not hard to understand why there are so many questions around what is considered the ‘best’ format for the playback of video clips on TriCaster®. While TriCaster can playback many different formats, that doesn’t mean that all media formats are equal. Clips you make can have different needs. In some cases, just video playback is all that is needed while in other cases features like an alpha channel might be required.
Here we are demonstrating the PTZOptics MIDI Camera Control app integration with Pro Tools. We step into our Lead Engineers audio recording studio to integrate PTZOptics cameras into his Pro Tools setup using MIDI controls.