» Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
11May Adobe CS5.5 released.
Sure the video is a little cheesy but the new features in CS5.5 look pretty nice. The Warp stabilizer and audio features are the things I’m most interested in trying out. But I’m still not sure If I want to pay the upgrade fee, or hold out for CS6. Every adobe release seems to be […]
09May How to install a Flat picture style on your Canon DSLR
I’ve been living life out of a hotel for the past two and half weeks. The small amount of time I’ve spent at home was used to working on my new Makerbot, and now i’m in yet another motel in Montana. Needless to say this video was shot in 3 different motel rooms with my […]
06May Low price editing computer.
People always ask if there are any cheap options for upgrading their editing computer. DSLR footage does take a beefy machine to edit, but can you get away with lower end parts and still have a pleasant editing experience? Honestly, I went from a computer that couldn’t handle DSLR footage to a computer that handles it beautifully. […]
30Apr Film look: Technicolor CineStyle v.s. Marvels Cine picture style
One of the most popular methods for color correction with DSLR footage is to shoot with a flat picture style. This usually gives you more latitude when trying to grade footage in post. Canon has worked jointly with Technicolor to develop a new “flat” picture style for Canon DSLRs. One of the most popular Flat pictures styles, […]
29Apr Running out of Hard drive space.
I was backing up projects to my server today, when I realized that I’m now down to 200GB of space. I think it might be time for an upgrade. Currently, there are 6 hard drives installed in this mess of a case. Two 500GB drives, and Four 1TB drives in RAID 1, grand total, 5TB […]
25Apr Canon 7D firmware update posted, then gone.
Source: Canon Rumors I saw the new Canon 7d firmware 1.2.5 release posted last week. The list of improvements arn’t anything life changing, but the update does include a CF card fix that I’ve occasionally had problems with. Sometimes I would get an Err 02 at random when using a few of my cheaper CF cards. […]
10Apr Building your own Camera gear.
There have been quit a few times that I’ve been searching for some kind of connector or adapter that would finish out a rig I use, but no one makes the part I have in mind. So I end up finding something that works but isn’t really what I wanted. This happens enough that I’ve […]
10Apr Speeding up editing with an SSD drive.
When I’m at home editing on my desktop, I have a set of velociraptor 300gb drives in RAID 0 to give me speed. But on my laptop the 7200 rpm drive doesn’t always keep up. If you’re looking for RAID 0 speeds in a compact package a solid state hard drive (SSD) might be something to […]
31Mar New laptop showed up. Quick look at the DELL XPS 15.
The new Dell XPS 15 laptop showed up while I was out on the road. Thankfully or not, I’ve been sick for 2 days straight, so between medication, hot baths, and cough drops, I’ve been able to mess around with it. My first impression is that this beast is only slightly smaller then my old […]
21Mar Turn an unbalanced mono jack into a stereo output.
Audio pictured above Dave Knop from QuickFX pointed out to me that some of the lower price editing programs like iMovie and Windows Movie maker don’t have much in the form of audio control. This isn’t to much of a problem if you’re using the in camera microphone but can be a real hassle if […]
