And it’s crap.
I may still capture some. One reel was totally useless – seems like the film wasn’t being pulled through the gate properly.
The second reel is better, but has a shadow across every frame, due to a hair stuff between the lens and the prism.
At least we know the camera works.
Sniff.
Yesterday Focus announced an update for the DR-HD100 (the JVC HD-100 only version of the Firestore) which allows it to record 720p30. The update for the FS-4pro is only “a few weeks away” … just like it was in April! Hoorah!
Ok. I really don’t care about the Today show. I swear. But, folks might be interested in this article about the Today show being converted to HD.
If a huge national production can have HDC-1500s, why can’t I?
Today was Christmas for members of the Cult of Mac. WWDC kicked off with a keynote by Steve Jobs, including the announcement of the MacPro and XServe intel machines. They look to be absolutely killer.
Interesting little note on the “Performance” page of the MacPro site. They talk about rendering with Final Cut Pro 5.2.1. That version doesn’t exist, at least not in the wild. Does that hint that we may have a somewhat substantial update coming? Could be!
I’ve spent the last month trying to get a replacement ribbon cable for a $100,000 switcher, from a company which shall remain nameless. Let me explain.
Current.tv is running a contest for the best video regarding Tolerance. First price is $100,000 – not small change. Take a look!
Telestream today announced that they’ve acquired Popwire. I think this is actually a good thing for the industry. Telestream has shown increasing support for the Mac platform, with products like Flip4Mac. Buying Popwire shows that they are indeed very committed to video processing on the Mac. That’s good for everyone.
Telestream has released Flip4Mac 2.1, which is a Universal Binary. So, Macintel users, rejoice, you may now watch WMV videos!
In among the new camera news yesterday, there was a second press release from Canon about the HD wide angle lens for the XL-H1. It’s been given a price ($2999) and a ship date (November) but doesn’t seem to have been otherwise changed from the previous release about it, back ’round NAB. So, yeah. Exciting?
AMD announced today its intent to buy ATI, a move that could have some interesting ramifications in the industry. It will be very interesting to see what sort of impact this has on Intel/ATI relationships – does it push more vendors into the Nvidia camp? I’m not sure it’s such a great thing for consumers – the graphics industry is already far too homogenized. And hey, huge mergers between established companies always work out for the best, right?