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Rodney Charters: BM Pocket Camera, 4K acquisition & Alexa

Plays: 1398 - Duration: 12:27 - Added: 25/11/2014

Rodney Charters, highly regarded director and cinematographer, talks about using the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera side-by-side with an Alexa, what 4K acquisition means in "his" world as a high-end cinematographer, and his love for the Alexa, and what it makes this camera special. ...

Lessons in Lighting: lighting against hard daylight

Plays: 369 - Duration: 07:56 - Added: 13/07/2014

Lighting against hard daylight can be a challenge for those filming on location. You need the right equipment to make it work. In this video piece, using 2 lights: a dedolight DLED2 and a Felloni LED bicolour, we show how to turn a silhouette into a well-lit subject Using Sony S-Log...

Cinema Rig: Samurai Blade & Blackmagic Cinema Camera

Plays: 740 - Duration: 11:19 - Added: 28/02/2014

This piece shows the Blackmagic Cinema Camera built into a cinema rig configuration, for high quality acquisition of images and audio on location. The rig is built from the following pieces of equipment: Blackmagic Cinema Camera EF 2.5K Sound Devices Mix Pre Atomos Samurai Blade Za...

Atomos Ninja & Samurai Blade - Missing link camera to recorder

Plays: 1278 - Duration: 19:46 - Added: 25/02/2014

The Atomos Ninja Blade is a welcome and needed addition to the Atomos product-line of ProRes/DNxHD recorders. These are proven to be high quality, reliable and cost effective in terms of purchase price and recording media. Before the Ninja Blade there was the Samurai Blade, which was...

Killer Blade: Atomos Samurai Blade 10 Bit 4:2:2 recorder

Plays: 1129 - Duration: 16:05 - Added: 08/09/2013

This is a quick overview of this new product, which operates as a fantastic viewing monitor and also as a ProRes or DNxHD recorder. This bumps up the quality of your camera to broadcast standard at the same time giving you an accurate display for colour rendition. This is a very desir...

Atomos Samurai: portable 10 bit ProRes & DNxHD SDI recorder

Plays: 2382 - Duration: 21:08 - Added: 07/04/2013

The Samurai opens up the efficient and cost-effective world of file-based workflows from an intuitive touchscreen monitor. Capture content in real-time directly from the camera sensor and encode it to Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHD formats, eliminating the lossy, time consuming capture-to...

Atomos Ninja 2 ProRes and DNxHD recorder

Plays: 658 - Duration: 08:30 - Added: 20/08/2012

Atomos, the creator of the Ninja and Samurai ﬁeld recorders, has shown the brand new Ninja 2, which features HDMI input and output, as well as support for the latest version (3.0) of the unique AtomOS operating system. “We ﬁrst showcased Ninja at NAB 2011 and just a y...