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Posted in Cool Sites, Film on Aug 27th, 2008
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A dutch blogger has an interesting project describing how he made a bluescreen himself. Or a greenscreen.
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Posted in Cool Sites, Technology on Aug 25th, 2008
I always find it tedious to keep all my software updated. AppUpdate is a free widget that scans your harddisk for programes, and then checks the versions number against a list on Apple’s software directory, MacUpdate and Version Tracker. Once it is finished — and this goes surprizingly fast — you are presented with [...]
Posted in Cool Sites, Film, Technology on Aug 14th, 2008
Florian Andrei pointed me to a paper discussing a new approach to combining stills and video photography to get much better results. This leads to
Higher resolution
Higher dynamic range
Enhanced exposure
Easy removal/exchange of objects
Here is a video explaining the idea with examples
P.S. I do notice the irony that since my warning against posting on Vimeo I have [...]
Posted in Cool Sites, Life on Aug 6th, 2008
A great little story over from Banksy:
In 1974 a 33 year old man named George Davis was convicted of robbing the payroll of the London Electricity Board in Ilford. He was nailed on the evidence of cops who were outside the bank at the time of the [...]
Posted in Cool Sites, Editing, Film, Technology on Jul 21st, 2008
Found a simple, straight-forward online calculator that helps you in figuring out how much storage space you need for a R3D (the Red camera codec) project.
1 hour at 25 fps in 16:9 takes about 115 gigs.
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Posted in Cool Sites, Film on Jun 26th, 2008
For the financially challed film producer, Good Music often is out of reach. There are many so-so sources for CDs full of royalty free music (we own a huge library of those and hardly ever use it - unless we need something cheesy).
Then there are places where you can preview and download music for a [...]