» Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
11Jan CameraMator Wireless camera controller
The Cameramator actually showed up last week and the design and build look pretty reasonable. Unfortunately that’s all I can say about it right now as it only supports iOS devices which basically makes it a $200 paper weight for myself and many other backers. The Cameramator site, recently took down all of their references to android devices even […]
27Dec Recovering Data from a corrupted SD or CF card.
Ironically, I have my first memory card failure right after writing a post about proper data management. The card, an Adata 16 GB SDHC, came out of the behind the scenes camera. When I placed it into my card reader and clicked on the drive a windows popped up asking if I would like to format […]
14Dec GoPro Hero 3 app, not much of a selling point
The first thing you’ll notice about this photograph is that i’m not holding a camera in the “live view” screen display. That’s because there is so much delay between what the camera is seeing and what the tablet is displaying that I was easily able to photograph the tablet before the screen caught up with […]
13Dec Canon 6d Firmware and software updates
Canon just released a software update to DPP last night that allows the program to support RAW files from the Canon 6d. It’s a little surprising to me that this wasn’t ready to go at launch, was Canon rushing to get this camera out before Christmas? Also it looks like the first Canon 6d firmware update has […]
12Dec Free Time Lapse software that’s easy to use: GoPro Cineform Studio
I have a lot of good things to say about the GoPro Hero 3, but I’ll save them for the full review. What I want to point out here is that the free Cineform Studio app on Gopro’s site is an excellent, easy, full functioning, time lapse application. Simply click the “Import New Files” button on the left, […]
17Nov Gopro Hero 3 Black edition could be the best price steady cam on the market.
If you’ve kept track of the updates to Premiere Pro CS6 you might remember that the Warp Stabilizer feature used previously in after effects is now built into Premiere. The Warp Stabilizer basically works by moving the video footage around to compensate for steady motion. One of the problems with this is that if you shot […]
31Oct FreeNas Speed test with new PCI-e 1Gb NIC
Finally had a chance to install the new PCI-e 1Gb Ethernet card and it seems to have dramatically improved read and write speeds to my desktop from the freenas build. Above is a read transfer from the NAS to a local hard drive. As you can see I’m averaging about 43 MB/s on this large file transfer. Considering […]
26Oct Very Classy HTPC build with a nMEDIAPC Red Wood Computer case
I figured while I was on the path of computer construction I’d go ahead and update my HTPC. The old P4 machine that I’ve used for years just wasn’t cutting it any more and it’s a pain to drag out my laptop when I want to watch a movie. After searching for some case options, I […]
23Oct Freenas Build, also I’m back from a month of filming.
Just finished a month of traveling to Boston, Atlanta, Orlando, and Kansas City. I’m glad to be home and ready to take a brake from out of town work for a few weeks. Waiting for me when I got home was everything I ordered for the Freenas build. One change I made to the parts list while […]
17Sep Mecury playback engine GTX 670 v.s. GTX 285 speed test
Just made it back from Boston on Saturday night and had a little bit of time to run some rendering speed tests on the GTX 670 and the GTX 285 with CS6 (finally made the upgrade). I used two timelines, the first I’ll call the “Easy timeline” which is composed of a 2 minute and 42 second […]
