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“New Camera Poised To Alter Filmmaking”: NY Sun on Red

Posted in 4K, Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, article, cinematography, high-definition on Friday, 20 June 2008, 10:38 am | 6 Comments »

[UPDATE, 27 August 2008: Charles Papert (SOC), in a comment below, makes some important corrections and clarifications to my post below. Thanks, Charles.] This article by S. James Snyder, “New Camera Poised To Alter Filmmaking”, is the best summary for non-film professionals of why Red is revolutionary. This is the article I’ll give my friends [...]

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Red One Camera Build 16 Beta firmware is here!

Posted in 16:9, 4K, Build 16, Indie filmmaking, Jim Jannard, R3D, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, Redcode RAW, cameras, cinematography, firmware, high-definition on Thursday, 19 June 2008, 10:32 am | 3 Comments »

The much-anticipated Red One camera Build 16 firmware is finally here! The top features in Build 16 that I’m looking forward to are: ability to shoot 16×9 4K; improved ability to shoot in low light; improved and evenly distributed film-grain-like noise; ability to record audio directly to camera (i.e., without a mixer) using phantom mic [...]

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Where’s the Beef? Web 2.0 Emerging as Powerful Tool for Protestors

Posted in Korea, Web 2.0, article, blogs, citizen journalism on Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 2:53 pm | Leave a Comment »

Check out this interesting article in today’s International Herald Tribune, on how a protest (against import to South Korea of perceived un-safe U.S. beef) initially ignored by traditional media, snowballed after being covered by citizen journalists on Web 2.0 sites. This article dovetails with another article on Wired (“Media Death March: Newspaper Ads Tumble”) reporting [...]

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Red and Ted in Hong Kong

Posted in 4K, Apple, Hong Kong, QMaster, R3D, REDCINE, Red Alert, Red Camera, Red Epic, Red digital cinema, Ted Schilowitz, cameras, high-definition on Friday, 6 June 2008, 1:49 pm | 8 Comments »

[UPDATE, 12 June 2008, 1am HK time: I've learned that Stewart Chong has been posting his comment below (with links back here to this post) in various places (e.g., HK Final Cut Pro Users Group and reduser.net). For the record, I have no formal affiliation with Red. I'm just a satisfied customer and friend/acquaintance of [...]

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Good blog post on “citizen journalism” coverage of Chengdu earthquake

Posted in CNN, Chengdu, China, Sichuan, Web 2.0, citizen journalism, crowd sourcing, earthquake, user-generated content on Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 10:32 am | Leave a Comment »

The Barking at the Sun/蜀犬吠日 blog (“Blogging from China, Sichuan, Chengdu. 中国. 四川. 成都”) has a good post in English by Mark Hiew on “Big media, citizen journalists, and the May 12th earthquake”. Web 2.0 aiding coverage of this terrible tragedy.

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Adobe’s Online Office Offering: Underwhelming

Posted in Acrobat, Adobe, Buzzword, Web 2.0, acrobat.com, collaborative software, office suite, online office apps on Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 9:29 am | Leave a Comment »

Adobe has taken it’s innovative (but isolated) Flash-based word processor, called Buzzword, and bundled it into their own on-line suite of office apps. And the resulting is… less than stellar (according to Ars Techica’s convincing initial review of the suite, Acrobat.com.)

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