DI Finishing for Act of Valor
The biggest challenge we faced in the DI finishing process for Act of Valor, was preparing for three different aspect ratios for our deliverable, without sacrificing resolution. All of our footage… Read more »
Tag Archives: 2K I/O
Visual Effects on Act of Valor
At Bandito Brothers, we have always prided ourselves in being authentic and real. This is one of the values that led Scott and Mouse to cast real Navy SEALS for… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
NAB 2011
I did get a chance to check out some of the new products available at NAB. These are the things that stood out to me: Cineform’s big news was their… Read more »
Shared SAN Storage Solutions
SANs are a hardware solution that allows multiple systems to share access to the performance and security offered by large high speed disk arrays. A single array of disks can… Read more »
IBC Announcements and Other News
Besides my CS5 reviews, I haven’t posted much about new products or developments in a while. There were a number of interesting releases at IBC last week, and a few from… 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 »
