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Halo 3 “Believe” behind the scenes

September 24, 2007July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Halo, Microsoft, Xbox 3600 comment

If you haven’t been paying attention, what is probably the most anticipated video game of the year launches in less than 24 hours. Microsoft has been gearing up the marketing blitz for Halo 3 for the Xbox 360. The “Believe” campaign is interesting in that they opted to built a real world diorama depicting a massive battle. In the spot, a camera pans through this frozen battle, complete with explosions. The work that Method Studios put into the building of the set is phenomenal, which included building a complete CG…

Sony’s PMW-EX1 solid state camera

September 24, 2007April 17, 2009 Doug Groves PMW, Sony0 comment

Sony announce their latest HD camera last week in New York. The PMW-EX1 uses Sony’s SxS PRO ExpressCard for recording and playback. The format should lead to lower power consumption than PCMCIA cards. With two SxS slots loaded with 16GB each, the camera can record over 100 minutes of high quality HD footage at 35Mb/sec, or 140 minutes at 25Mb/sec, in MP4 format. The estimated price of the new camera is expected to be about $8000 US. You can read more about the PMW-EX1 at the Sony site.

Will the Red Camera become the category killer, simply a model to follow, or neither?

September 21, 2007March 26, 2009 James Moore Red0 comment

It seems like a good idea – A ‘black box’ with high res imaging chips (12-megapixel Mysterium™ CMOS sensor) that you can stick your own lens on. Elegant, high quality, and pretty cost effective. It seems like an elegant solution which could get even cheaper as others emulate it. Visit Red to see more.

Video Sharing – is it illegal?

September 21, 2007July 25, 2009 Doug Groves online rights2 Comments

This VCR is so old, it’s clock flashes 11:00… From boingboing.net: a discussion about video sharing via Nightline circa 1981. Yep. Though it’s pretty dry stuff, it’s essentially the same discussion that’s going on now, albeit sharing is just a little easier nowadays. There’s also some small measure of irony that the videos are being shared on Youtube.com Essentially, a rep from MCA and a lawyer discuss whether it’s illegal to use a Sony Betamax machine to record television shows. After all, back in the day home taping was going…

Newtek’s SpeedEDIT 1.2

September 20, 2007February 22, 2010 Doug Groves newtek, SpeedEdit0 comment

For those who don’t know, Newtek ushered in the video desktop era with the Amiga based Toaster, and later the Toaster Flyer, which added NLE capabilities to their already brilliant “studio in a desktop” concept. They continued after the demise of the Amiga by working on the Video Toaster for Windows, which was later shortened to the VT, which offers a suite of software, combined with an uncompressed video I/O card and switcher.They recently separated the editing software TEd away from the VT hardware, and given the user a software…

rgbFILTER online

September 6, 2007July 25, 2009 Doug Groves 2 Comments

Still working on the design of the site, but rgbfilter.com is now online.