Studio Monthly articles from July 2008

Studio Monthly archives from July 2008

Color theory.(editor's note)
July 1, 2008... In this month's cover story on page 22, DP Jon Fordham finds a veritable kaleidoscope in the details. Tom Strodel, his producer on two recent music video shoots, chronicles Jon's stylized in-camera work with the Sony CineAlta F23, a camera the...

Record time.(gear up)
July 1, 2008... Sound Devices is announcing the latest addition to its 7-Series line of digital audio recorders, the 788T eight-track recorder. First shown at NAB 2008, the 788T is designed specifically for multi-track, on-location productions and features...

Faster version of ToonIt!(gear up)
July 1, 2008... Digital Anarchy has shipped the version 1.1 update for ToonIt! Film/Video and ToonIt! Avid. Version 1.1 speeds up the rendering of ToonIt! by taking advantage of multi-processors. The update adds a few new features, bug fixes and speeds up...

Magic Bullet now supports Sony Vegas 8.(gear up)
July 1, 2008... Red Giant Software has released Magic Bullet Looks 1.1 with new support for Sony Vegas 8. It includes plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro, Motion, and Vegas, as well as a stand-alone LooksBuilder...

Flexible handling.(gear up)
July 1, 2008... Stantron introduced the Glide and Turn equipment rack for use in professional and consumer environments at this year's InfoComm Expo in June. The Stantron Glide and Turn rack features all-steel construction and is designed to fit into a wall as...

Mammoth Red clips.(Spotlight on Stock Footage)
July 1, 2008... Mammoth HD is expanding its RED 4K library with the addition of several new offerings. The Mammoth HD RED libraries feature footage "Shot on RED," referring to the 4K camera with the 4096x2048 pixel depth. The clips fit easily into a...

Phantom SLO-MO.(Spotlight on Stock Footage)
July 1, 2008... Shown for the first time at NAB, Artbeats' new Ultra collections are the latest additions to the company's Ultra footage line, which features 1000 fps (frames per second) slow-motion footage shot with the Phantom HD camera. Ultra Water 2, Ultra...

BBC shorts come to Newscom.(Spotlight on Stock Footage)
July 1, 2008... Newscom is announcing the addition of video content from BBC Motion Gallery, the archive sales division of BBC World wide. The BBC Motion Gallery Shorts are 3 to 5 minutes in length and are categorized by subject matter, such as nature, travel,...

HP DreamColor LP2480ZX; Shrek and kung fu panda approved.(ROI reviews)
July 1, 2008... It's not often you encounter a product that can shake up the marketplace. The press release may promise something that's "revolutionary," but that's rarely the case. With the HP DreamColor LP2480ZX 24-inch LCD display, however, the product...

Vara software ScreenFlow; Well-priced tool for a fluid screencasting workflow.(ROI reviews)
July 1, 2008... Every once in a while we get a game changer, something that comes along that makes us rethink what we thought a certain category of products can do. ScreenFlow, for me, is that type of product. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I've been creating...

Remove unwanted noise from clips in apple Soundtrack Pro 2.(how)
July 1, 2008... STEP 1 SEND A CLIP FROM FINAL CUT PRO TO SOUNDTRACK PRO [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Right-click or Control-click on the clip in the Final Cut Pro Timeline and choose Send To > Soundtrack Pro Audio File Project, then choose a location...

Record, decode and edit surround sound with Holophone's H4 SuperMINI or PortaMic 5.1.(train up)
July 1, 2008... There are three methods to decode Dolby Pro Logic II-encoded audio using a hardware-based workflow: with Holophone D-CODE; with an A/V receiver that has a built-in Dolby Pro Logic II Decoder; or with the Dolby Professional Pro Logic II decoder....

Seeing sound: a music video producer and his team use the Sony CineAlta F23 to create two dramatically different visual narratives, in camera and on a budget.(TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2008... With the release of the Sony CineAlta F23 camera system, music video creators now have a real alternative to film-based acquisition. When I first heard of what the camera could do, I knew it would be perfect for 24fps Productions' narrative...

Film and video rewind.(hot house)
July 1, 2008... When the government-mandated switch to all-digital broadcasting begins in 2009, television and film studios will face a dilemma. Should they try to sell their vast programming libraries to networks and other media outlets in their current form,...