Rockwell’s Digital Zoom Patent
In February, Ken Rockwell announced that he had a patent granted for an invention concerned with smart cropping. In this article we will take a closer look at what is actually in the patent.
How 8K Measures Up
High Definition is old, 4K is settled in, now it’s the turn of 8K. Asides from professional level cameras, 8K cameras are starting to come to market. One of the most hotly anticipated is the Canon R5 and likely to lead many into the world of 8K video. Is it time to get serious about 8K?
MotionBend 1.6.5 and Assistant
MotionBend 1.6.5 includes a new tool to facilitate installing MotionBend plugin for Final Cut Pro X; MotionBend Assistant handles license registration and plugin install and uninstall.
A Blog Update
It has been a while since we last posted an article, but good news, the blog is back! We hope to resume posting articles and there is plenty to talk about: from workflows to videos; from video quality issues to the latest high end mirrorless cameras; from action to omnidirectional VR cameras; from 8K UHDTV-2 to H.266 video coding…
Read more →Some Thoughts on ProRes RAW and ProRes RAW HQ
Just before NAB 2018, Apple announced ProRes RAW and ProRes RAW HQ, a new video codec aimed at professionals. When ProRes was originally launched it supported the YCbCr color space with 4:2:2 and 4:4:4:4 chrominance subsampling. ProRes is popular as an intermediate codec for transcoding video from the camera for editing or as a mezzanine codec for storing high quality edited video before transcoding to a delivery format. The 4:2:2 version is preferable for general purpose compression at high quality and 4:4:4:4 for applications such as chromakey or when on screen text and graphics will be added.
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