http://www.hd4pc.com/techblog Evolving Media Post Production Workflows in Light of Advancing Computer Technology Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:44:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Canon 5D MarkII was the first DSLR that offered HD video capture capability worth considering as a replacement for film.  Its full sized sensor, full resolution 1080p recording, and high quality 40Mb AVCHD compression differentiated it from all competitors  I have experimented with many of the other DSLR options ... http://www.hd4pc.com/techblog/2009/11/04/shooting-with-the-canon-5d/ Recording video with DSLR cameras has been the big new trend for a few months now, and while I have been right in the thick of those developments, I have been silent about that on here until now.  I have been putting off writing about my experiences with DSLR based film making ... http://www.hd4pc.com/techblog/2009/11/01/recording-video-on-dslrs/ The Elemental Accelerator is a plugin for Adobe Media Encoder CS4 that harnesses the computing power of high end NVIDIA Quadro GPUs to encode video files faster.  It currently supports output to DVD, Blu-Ray, and a variety of other MPEG2 and H.264 formats.  Besides decreasing the time required to export ... http://www.hd4pc.com/techblog/2009/09/01/elemental-accelerator-on-nvidia-quadro-gpus/ I have been experiencing some security issues on my server recently, so I updated the Wordpress software that I use to publish this site for the first time ever tonight.  I am still working out some of the details.  Let me know if you notice anything out of place. It has ... http://www.hd4pc.com/techblog/2009/08/06/site-update/ AJA had a number of new products on display, and it seems that the new revisions fix most of the issues that I have had in the past.  The Xena LH card used to prevent realtime preview in AE, at 1920x1080 due to frame caching bandwidth limits.  The new Xena ... http://www.hd4pc.com/techblog/2009/04/25/nab-wrap-up/ So after a busy day, spent mostly in the Cineform booth on Tuesday, I finally got a chance to continue exploring today.  There are a few more products that jumped out at me, mostly hardware products since they are easier to grasp in a short period of time that software, ... http://www.hd4pc.com/techblog/2009/04/22/nab-day-3-2/ So after a long run of dry months, with few releases of new hardware and software, NAB has brought all sorts of new toys to the table.  While I am spending most of my time as a demo artist at the Cineform booth, I did manage to take a look ... http://www.hd4pc.com/techblog/2009/04/20/nab-day-1-2/ Adobe Photoshop is one of the most ubiquitous image editing programs on the planet, used not only by photo editors, but illustrators, graphic designers, web designers, VFX artists, and many others.  With the last few releases, Adobe has continued to push their most popular product into even more diverse applications, including 3D object support, ... http://www.hd4pc.com/techblog/2009/03/08/gpu-acceleration-in-photoshop-cs4/ So over the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to test the NVIDIA Quadro ® CX, a new high-end workstation class graphics card.  This is basically the next generation successor to the Quadro FX 4600, with double the memory at 1.5GB, and the addition of 10bit capable DisplayPort outputs.  The ... http://www.hd4pc.com/techblog/2009/02/04/the-nvidia-quadro-cx-with-adobes-cs4-suite/ I get lots of inquiries about making regular DVDs from High Definition material.  Hopefully from now on I can respond to those questions with a link to this post.  There are two aspects of the downconvert process that cause quality problems if not handled correctly.  First is the interlacing problem.  Even if both ... http://www.hd4pc.com/techblog/2008/12/24/downconverting-high-definition-to-dvd/