Shooting 4K for HD Delivery
So this year at NAB, we continue to see more 4K acquisition tools being developed, but nearly all content is distributed and viewed by its audience at 1080p or below,… Read more »
Author Archives: Mike McCarthy
NAB 2012 – Part 2
So I have had a bit more time to get browse the show, and while I haven’t come across anything that totally amazed me, there are a variety of little… Read more »
NAB 2012 – Part 1
So NAB is here again. 4K and Thunderbolt seem to be the most popular topics at the show, with 3D hardly being advertised. There are a lot of new products… Read more »
Editing Act of Valor
When we first started out, we had no idea how much footage we would be shooting for the movie, because the 5D lends itself to a different type of shooting style than… Read more »
Shooting Act of Valor
We shot the movie on a wide variety of locations, over about a year. Scott and Mouse originally intended to utilize the 5D’s unique capabilities to capture the intensity of… Read more »
Preparing for Act of Valor
When we first started preparing to shoot Act of Valor, over four years ago, we had to decide what cameras to use. Up to that point all of our work… Read more »
Act of Valor
So Act of Valor, the big project that I have been working on for the last four years, finally was released last month. It has been pretty exciting to see this… Read more »
Two Interesting Developments from Blackmagic-Design
First off, the long awaited PC version of DaVinci Resolve was released to public beta last week. Both the full version and the free Resolve-Lite now have PC variants available. … Read more »
Canon Cinema EOS C300
Earlier this month, Canon announced the C300 as the first product in their new Cinema EOS series, which they see as their next step in the world of digital filmmaking. They… Read more »
Avid Media Composer 6
I haven’t posted much in the last few months, because there have not been many new developments that caught my eye or piqued my curiosity. But this month we are… Read more »