Recent content by Shaw

I havent seen any rates for news stringers I'm thinking i will get my new a1 and change my rates per story what do you all think would be a good rate for news footage per station per story.

I havent seen any rates for news stringers I'm thinking i will get my new a1 and change my rates per story what do you all think would be a good rate for news footage per station per story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_on_re_as/thailand You doing ok out there PK?

Ok, so I just went back and watched this movie again. Is it just me or are parts of this movie absolutely terrible in the VFX area? A ton of the composites stuck out like a sore thumb. Most notable was the fight between Morpheus and the Agent on the highway/truck. Wow.... Color matching on...

Hey guys, This may seem obvious but I would like to discuss the benefits of RAW data acquisition. There are a few things I am not entirely clear on that I would like to figure out. The main benefit of shooting RAW, as I see it, is the ability to choose your working format after the fact...

Whoa, just stumbled on this today. It's apparently oldish news but hey - I'm slow :) A guy from Germany with apparently way too much free time stumbled onto a 500:1 very detailed scale replica of a 157,000 square mile area on the Chinese border located near Huangyangtan. It's surrounded by...

Saw this and thought it was pretty dang cool. I suspect we'll see this in the next generation of computer games! http://www.geomerics.com/index.php?page=lighting Just imagine the savoriness of real time lighting effects WITH radiosity in games. Flashlights, swinging lanterns all with...

Hey guys, I recently researched this for a post elsewhere and thought someone here might find it interesting/worthwhile. Feedback and comments would be great. What I wanted to do was compare the cost of building a PC vs buying a new Mac Pro. The only real issue and discrepency is that the...

Hey guys, nVidia has just announced that they will be selling what amounts to a GPU render farm. Nice! For the same exact price as red you can now work with 4K red files. I wonder how much you will be able to do real time with this beast? And I can only imagine the painful power bill this...

Check this out! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4786060885964361677

Hey guys, I'm not sure where the best place for this thread is but... I'm looking for more information about the DNxHD codec from Avid. Is this codec available for download? I know Avid has the source code on their page but I'd rather not try to compile it myself... If so, is it possible...

Hey guys, I've been looking around at buying a high end machine and have decided on a PC system as it works best for my needs and workflow at the moment. I've priced some really high end computers at alienware and dell and they're naturally quite expensive. I'm convinced I could build myself...

Hey guys, I've been asked to dub a bunch of DV tapes to DVD - No editing, no complex menu, simple noise reduction, and label design via LightScribe. Anyone have a recommendation for how much I should charge? per hour? Per tape? I honestly don't know what price range I should be looking at here.

Hey guys, I'm looking into various lossless compression codecs at the moment for some 1080p post work. Does anyone have a recommended favorite that you use in your pipelines? Also, anyone know how SheerVideo codec compares to, say, MSU LAB0.6 or Lagarith? Any information would be most...

Hey guys, I've been thinking about how best to monitor HD. With SD things are nice and easy - go purchase a nice high end studio monitor which can be calibrated, hook the darn thing up and you're set. What options are there for HD that provide accurate color etc?