RED announced the newest addition to their cinema camera line at NAB. The WEAPON will be released in two flavors. The “Magnesium” version will start shipping this summer with the same 6K Dragon sensor in the present Epic model and the “Carbon Fiber” version which will have a newly designed 8K sensor. Initial Carbon Fiber models will ship with a 6K sensor with an 8K sensor upgrade expected to be released by the end of the year.
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When Sony released their F5 and F55 camera systems, they rolled out yet another video codec in the form of XAVC. While the XAVC codec sports excellent quality and compression characteristics surpassing their legacy XDCAM format, it still has a major weakness. You can’t easily watch the footage. Either the Sony Content Browser or an editing suite such as Abode Premiere must be used. And 4K footage wont even play in the Content Browser …
If you are shooting a production in South Florida and don’t feel like lugging all that heavy equipment with you, consider renting a digital cinema camera package from Moving Picture Rental.
Moving Picture is a professional camera crew and production rental facility located in South Florida, with digital cinema camera package rentals available to meet your production’s budget.
[caption id="attachment_768" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The ARRI Alexa is a staple of modern professional production and the standard bearer for digital cinema …
The Irony: Analog recordings made 100 years ago are more likely to survive than digital recordings made today!
The Truth: There is not a “Magic Bullet” solution available today that will work for everyone. The digital formats you have recorded your material on coupled with the amount of digital material you need to archive and digitally preserve will dictate the solution and practices that will work best for you.
What is digital preservation?
Data backup: Making multiple (two or more) copies of a digital file. The copies should be st …
There is no shortage of hype surrounding the 4K initiative, most of it coming from the high-end camera and television manufacturers. During our research on the 4K topic we’ve found very few compelling reasons to support this technological advancement, and quite a few points that prove the world isn’t quite ready for the current implementation of 4K. We’ll outline some of the pros and cons of 4K technology and you can decide for yourself if 4K is the right tool for your job.
“4K Looks Better than HD”
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Edelkrone are creators of camera support and motion products for the small camera market. Admittedly, there are more than a few manufacturers out there that fit that description. However, there is something about the design of Edelkrone’s various products that have a simple elegance to them. A touch of class if you will… For example, the “The Wing” prototype show (above) isn’t really a slider, its p …
Time code is one of those technical topics that is commonly misunderstood by many production industry professionals. What is it? Why is it important? Where does it come from? What will happen if I don’t have it? We’ll try to answer all those questions for you, and with any luck, help you avoid time code based pitfalls in the future.
Time code is an electronic means of determining an exact location in digital audio and video recording. The current time code standard was developed in the 1960’s by the Society of Motion Picture …
At Moving Picture we are all too aware of how expensive it can be to create art. So, for the budget minded filmmakers out there, we’ve provided a few useful free video tools for you to try out.
MPEG Streamclip
(http://www.squared5.com)
MPEG Streamclip is one of those oddly versatile tools that should be installed on every computer you use. It will play nearly every sort of digital media you throw at it. This includes XDCAM MP4 files from the Sony EX-3 and F3 and MXF files from Sony F5/F55 and Canon C300. About the only thing it won’t play is RE …
[caption id="attachment_821" align="alignleft" width="500"] Daniel Pearle, ASC, with an ARRI Alexa, lines up a shot with Jennifer Lopez[/caption]
Moving Picture was recently contracted to provide Video Assist, Sound Playback, and Sound Mixers services for the Terrero Digital production of Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull “Live It Up”. Live It Up was shot on location at Fort Lauderdale Beach and Ice Palace Studios in Miami. While shooting at the beach, there seemed to be no end to the string of online, print, and television media tryi …
Moving Picture provides Camera, Lenses, Grip, Lighting, VTR, and Sound for
MS Entertainment’s production of Discovery Channel Latino “Investigation Hour”
Moving Picture was contracted to provide a complete shooting package for an MS Entertainment promotional video of the Discovery Channel Latino show “Investigation Hour”. The show features real life crime dramatizations and their subsequent investigations.
For this light and fast shoot, a 1-ton grip package with Kino Flo and ARRI Tungsten lighting page was provided. Camera Department receive …