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What I liked and saw at NAB 2010: Part 1

Posted in 4K, 5K, Adobe, AfterEffects, Alexa, Apple Color, Apple ProRes 422, DCP, Davinci Resolve, Epic, Indie filmmaking, Jim Jannard, LitePanels, NAB 2010, Peter Jackson, R3D, REDCINE, Red Camera, Red Epic, Red Ray, Red Rocket, Steadicam Tango, The Foundry, digital cinema, digital distribution, film editing, post-production on Friday, 16 April 2010, 3:45 am | 4 Comments »

I’ve been in Las Vegas for over a week for REDucation (Red training) and to visit the NAB show. REDucation was excellent–even though I’ve been shooting on the camera for 2 years and know a lot, I still learned a lot. Once I’m back to Hong Kong, I’ll do some posts on what I learned [...]

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NAB ’09 3 Coolest Things: Red Pro Primes + GearNex Gear Head + Panny GH1

Posted in 24P, 4K, 5K, Adobe, Adobe Premiere, AfterEffects, Apple Color, Apple ProRes 422, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Cineform, Criterion, Epic, GH-1, Gearnex, NAB, Panasonic, Quicktime, RPP, Red Pro Primes, Red accessories, Redrock Micro, Scarlet, Ted Schilowitz, cameras, cinematography, color correction, digital cinema, handheld, high-definition, lens mounts, lenses, maps on Sunday, 19 April 2009, 12:45 pm | 6 Comments »

[UPDATE, 20 April, 8am: added some thoughts on post-production as P.S. at the end of this post] OK, so this is admittedly subjective but here are three about-to-be-released things that will create a lot of buzz at NAB–which I’m likely to buy for my budding boutique indie feature film studio here in Hong Kong: Red [...]

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Red Won’t Be At NAB in 2009

Posted in 4K, 5K, Adobe, Adobe Premiere, AfterEffects, Apple, Apple Color, Cineform, Final Cut, NAB, Red Camera, Red Epic, Red digital cinema, Scarlet on Thursday, 8 January 2009, 9:57 am | 1 Comment »

Jim Jannard announced yesterday that Red won’t attend NAB in 2009: RED has decided to skip NAB 2009. We will hold our own RED DAY when we feel we are ready to present the new systems and when they are fully ready to showcase. Date and location will be announced in future. A minor delay [...]

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Native Adobe Premiere and AE support for Red R3D files

Posted in 4K, Adobe, Adobe Premiere, AfterEffects, Indie filmmaking, R3D, Red Camera, SDK, film editing, high-definition, post-production on Thursday, 31 July 2008, 10:22 am | Leave a Comment »

Very cool. Jim Jannard has announced on reduser.net this morning: “Within a week, RED R3D files will open natively in CS3 Premiere Pro and After Effects.” Very cool. I presume they’ll be able to handle full 4K images. But not sure about that. Well, here’s one quick way to solve Quicktime gamma issues…

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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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TechNewsWorld: “MS’s Live Workspace Keeps the Cloud Tethered to the Desktop”

Posted in Adobe, Buzzword, Enterprise 2.0, Google Docs, Office Live, TED, Web 2.0, online office apps on Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 9:59 am | 2 Comments »

Yesterday Microsoft launched “Office Live Workspace”–it’s response to online office applications like Google Docs and Adobe Buzzword. The free document sharing and collaboration service part of it is in beta and English only, as reported in this TechNewsWorld article. <Rant on> This article’s headline hits the nail on the head, suggesting a deeper truth: Microsoft [...]

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Adobe launches Air

Posted in Adobe, Air, Flash, Web 2.0, online office apps on Monday, 25 February 2008, 11:15 pm | 2 Comments »

Good article on it in the International Herald Tribune. Air is the “tool” with or environment on which the excellent online word processor BuzzWord is built. I’ve found Buzzword to be the slickest online word processor, with great design and GUI. Very intuitive to use. The best way to describe Air in lay people’s terms [...]

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