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Posted in Camera & Eye, Film, Technology on Sep 7th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get my latest posts directly in your mailbox. Thanks for coming to the Foo!In the past months I have written about a number of upcoming exciting technologies, namely the ability to enhance video using high-res stills, a new lens that [...]
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Posted in Camera & Eye, Film, Life on Sep 3rd, 2008
A few days ago I got a phone call from a producer, asking my availability for an “easy” assignment; basically a one-hour job. Well, today I filmed 12 hours, mostly standing in awkward positions, occasionally handling 2 cameras at once. And tomorrow I have another half day like that.
It is fun, and I enjoy it. [...]
Posted in Editing, Technology on Sep 1st, 2008
On a current job the client wants the videofiles on an external harddisk in FAT32. One of the problems with FAT32 is of course that it doesn’t allow for file sizes of 4GB or bigger, which translates to roughly 20min of DV material, and less on better codecs.
One way would of course be to use [...]
In the beginning God created the DP.
God saw the DP and said he was good.
The DP saw God and said: “Turn your head, I’d rather have it back-lit.”
God said:”But I am God!”
The DP said:”I don’t care who you are. Front-lighting is no good.”
And God turned his head.
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Posted in Cool Sites, Film on Aug 27th, 2008
A dutch blogger has an interesting project describing how he made a bluescreen himself. Or a greenscreen.
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