Apr 23, 2012

BlackMagic Design has recently announced the introduction of a brand new camera known as the BlackMagic Design Cinema Camera. The camera was first introduced last week at NAB at the low price of $2995!! The camera comes boasting a 13 stop Dynamic Range, interchangeable lenses, and a resolution of 2.5k . The images are captured to a 12-bit Raw file onto a SSD. In...

Apr 23, 2012

If you follow Post Chat on twitter then you know it’s basically a twitter only venue. However that has all changed now. Due to massive popular demand, and thanks to the great feedback from NAB this year, we now have a Facebook group for Post Chat. Feel free to join us here for the Post Chat Facebook Group.   Postchat is a weekly twitter-based chat,...

Apr 11, 2012

Avid has just announced an unprecedented limited-time cross-grade promotion on Avid Symphony 6 software that will represent an over 80% discount. Avid Symphony 6 is available to all qualified Avid and Final Cut Pro customers at the special price of only $999 (USD). This limited-time offer expires June 15, 2012.  For eligibility requirements and more...

Apr 2, 2012

Sony has recently announced a brand new camera  to follow up the FS100 and compete with the well received Canon C300 known as the Sony NEX-FS700. The camera is capable of shooting conventional 1080p, and 4K. Yes I said 4K. The Super 35mm image sensor will initially shoot 1080p but as Sony said it’s 4K ready. this means that down the road Sony is planing to...

Feb 22, 2012

Tonight the C.C.E. are having another great filled night with a Q&A period. Join us for a great night as Editors Lisa Grootenboer, C.C.E., Wendy Hallam Martin, C.C.E., Co-Producer Bill Goddard and Visual Effects Producer Bill Halliday present scenes from The Borgias and The Tudors and share their insights with us. Following the Q&A will be social time...

Feb 9, 2012

A good friend of mine and well known filmmaker and DP Philip Bloom recently asked me to write a guest post for his website. The subject would be Avid Media Composer 6, its new features, and it’s place in the post-production market.  Philip has been an Avid editor, but because previously Avid required proprietary hardware the cost was too expensive to use...

Feb 2, 2012

Avid  today announced the release of its first video editing application for the iPad—Avid Studio, available immediately at the Apple App Store.  As the first iPad app for video editing to offer frame-by-frame editing accuracy and access to all kinds of media, Avid Studio for iPad allows users to quickly and easily create and share exciting, highly...

Jan 16, 2012

I know it has been some time since my last posting. It was a very busy holiday season. However, I am very happy to announce Tej’s Tech Blog has an all new look.  We have been all been hard at work here at AOTG to upgrade the look and provide our readers with a more interactive and user friendly website.  Tej’s Tech Blog will continue to look at the...

Nov 24, 2011

AOTG has released a new mobile app for the iPhone and iPad.  Now it’s possible to get all your news about post-production on your iOS devices. The AOTG app supports push notifications, as well as videos from the Canadian Cinema Editors, and Australian Screen Editors. The app also supports location services providing you with the ability to find...

Nov 21, 2011

Tiffen has announced they have updated their award-winning DFX Version 3 Filter Suite to support for the latest 64bit offerings from Avid. These include  Avid Media Composer 6, Symphony 6, and Newscutter 10. It also adds support for Sony DSLR, NEX, SLT, and STV models. The following new features and capabilities are now available in Tiffen Dfx...

Nov 3, 2011

  Today Avid Avid announced Media Composer version 6, Symphony version 6 and NewsCutter version 10 . Avid matins they acer deeply committed to professionals, and are pleased to announce that all of these new applications are 64 bit native. Avid Media Composer 6.0 has been rebuilt from the core on an entirely new open, 64-bit architecture. Avid is also...

Oct 25, 2011

The CCE and Art of the Guillotine will be testing live streaming technology at the upcoming panel.  It will be a single camera set up covering the panel and can be viewed on Art of the Guillotine’s site.  Members are welcome to submit questions via the live chat or twitter either by #aotglive or #ccelive during the question period.  Please keep in mind...

Oct 24, 2011

Blackmagic Design recently announced much anticipated Resolve 8.1 update is now available, as a free download for existing Resolve users. The update includes Includes Final Cut Pro X XML round trip support, ACES colorspace support, Avid AAF and round trip for Avid Media Composer, new editing features, layer node effects and more. This new update includes some...

Sep 28, 2011

Tiffen a leading manufacturer and distributor of award-winning accessories for the still imaging, motion picture, and broadcast markets, has released the highly anticipated Tiffen Dfx 3.0. Tiffen Dfx 3.0 boasts enhanced multi-processor acceleration for faster interaction and rendering of images, 10+ brand new filters for optical effects, updated host support,...

Sep 15, 2011

The film community has embraced the concept of online video sharing sites such as YouTube, and Vimeo. Many independent filmmakers are using these as an outlet to get their films viewed and in some cases by even larger audiences. Some filmmakers have even gone to VOD ( video on demand) and promote their films via word of mouth and social media sites such as...