Shooting a Feature Film on the Canon 5D
The Canon 5D MarkII was the first DSLR that offered HD video capture capability worth considering as a replacement for film. Its full sized sensor, full resolution 1080p recording, and… Read more »
Category Archives: Product Reviews
Elemental Accelerator on NVIDIA Quadro GPUs
The Elemental Accelerator is a plugin for Adobe Media Encoder CS4 that harnesses the computing power of high end NVIDIA Quadro GPUs to encode video files faster. It currently supports… Read more »
GPU Acceleration in Photoshop CS4
Adobe Photoshop is one of the most ubiquitous image editing programs on the planet, used not only by photo editors, but illustrators, graphic designers, web designers, VFX artists, and many others. With… Read more »
The NVIDIA Quadro CX with Adobe’s CS4 Suite
So over the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to test the NVIDIA Quadro ® CX, a new high-end workstation class graphics card. This is basically the next generation successor… Read more »
2K Cineform 444
While Cineform’s initial products were developed for broadcast-level HD 10bit 4:2:2 YUV editing, they have added many other features to their compression format, many of which I have had the opportunity to take advantage of… Read more »
Silicon Imaging SI-2K Camera
The Silicon Imaging SI-2K is a single sensor CMOS camera that mimics 16mm film camera optics. It uses a bayer pattern to derive RGB images from a single native 2048×1152… Read more »
Blackmagic HDLink & Video Hub
Besides their Mac and PC compatible I/O components, Blackmagic makes a couple of utility devices that greatly increase the options available to a small post facility in using SDI video gear. Technically, the Multibridge… Read more »
Matrox Axio LE
Matrox’s Axio line of Premiere Pro based hardware solutions rewrite the application’s features much more so than most of the competing products. With a focus on broadcast television output, as… Read more »
Cineform ProspectHD
Cineform was one of the earliest companies to create solutions catering to the emerging HDV workflows, lowering the budget requirements for projects desiring to produce higher resolution images. Their solution AspectHD… Read more »
AJA Xena Cards
AJA currently has three main HD I/O cards for use in a PC, the Xena HS, the Xena LHe and the Xena 2Ke. The LH and 2K come in PCIe and PCI-X… Read more »
