Lens Tangents | DCinema Acquisition
Capture – with lens or microphone, perhaps moving electrons around with a stylus, or perhaps conversion from an analogue form. Regardless, the beginning is acquisition.
RED Sched for IBC
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21 Aug 2010
RED will not have a booth at IBC this year, but like last year they have a presentation at Assimilate (Saturday, 10:30AM), but this year Jim promises that Ted will have a working EPIC and a new reel, and BandPro says they will style the EPIC with Leica lenses.
Ted has posted the following schedule:
Here's the list so far:
(Other casual visiting times throughout the week as time permits, opportunities for close up look at EPIC and latest Scratch developments on their highly evolved, RED Rocket powered, fully native R3D grading and finishing workflows)
415pm on Friday, Sept. 10th 4pm on Sunday Sept 12th 1130am on Monday Sept 13th 11am on Tuesday Sept 14th (Presentations and workflow discussions planned, chance for a close up look at EPIC and discussions on native R3D Post Production, VFX and Compositing with the Foundry solutions.) 1pm to 3pm on Friday, Sept. 10th (casual meet and greet time each day, plans to show EPIC with the new super high performance Leica Primes, that are very well suited for the ultra high resolution 5k EPIC camera.) Avid – Booth 7.J20 10am on Sunday Sept 12th (Special Presentation, Q&A session and latest Avid developments for Media Composer 5 and Avid DS that support RED R3D footage natively for editing through 4k finishing) Autodesk – Booth 7.D25: 5pm on Saturday Sept 11th (Special Presentation, Case Study session and latest developments on Lustre, Smoke, Flame, etc. Covering AutoDesk's end to end support of RED R3D footage natively for editing, through 4k finishing)
1pm to 3pm on Sunday Sept 12th
1pm to 3pm on Monday Sept 13th
1pm to 3pm on Tuesday Sept 14th
Radiohead "House of Cards" Data
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17 Aug 2010
Not camera, not CGI.
Play the Google Code Instrument with the Radiohead data from 3 data gathering shoots.
In Radiohead's new video for "House of Cards" from the album "In Rainbows", no cameras or lights were used. Just data.
See the video and learn more about the technology behind it.
VFX Unions: Scott Ross Vs. Scott Ross
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31 Jul 2010
An excellent article on effects editors as artist needing portable benefits, employers who respect labor laws, and retirement plans...
VFX Unions: Scott Ross Vs. Scott Ross
Here is some news, while VFX facilities and Scott Ross have talked the talk about giving artists portable benefits, respecting labor laws, and creating retirement plans, The Animation Guild has walked the walk for almost the past 60 years.
Micro Four Thirds and 3D
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30 Jul 2010
To disparage Micro Four Thirds as being a consumer standard does a dis-service to the era that we are all involved in. Not only do they have the coolest logo, but the number of manufacturers onboard is only eclipsed by the number of lenses and camera bodies they have released since the standard came together.
Now Panasonic has announced a 3D lens in the format. Danger Will Robinson.
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White Papers Acquisition
Storage
Storage. It wasn't that long ago that trying to get a 9 Gig RAID working on a sophisticated LAN was monumental, if not impossible. 9 years perhaps?
Now, terabyte drives are here. Enough to go with holographic storage soon?
Workflow
There is a thrust for acquisition to take on some of the aspects of post. We are way to conservative for something fancy like that. But, we'll let you modern people talk about it.
CGI
Camera, but virtual.
DI
Film has higher resolution, no matter what that means. It is important.