NAB 2019 rumors (and releases)

James0b57 said:
Buzz words i am seeing and hearing:
8K...
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And yet, most cable systems don't go above 720p. You'd think the networks could, at least, stream live sports at 2.5K (1440) 60p ... but, nooooooooooo. Leave it to Netflix for 4K 24p. Full stop.
 
DLD said:
And yet, most cable systems don't go above 720p. You'd think the networks could, at least, stream live sports at 2.5K (1440) 60p ... but, nooooooooooo. Leave it to Netflix for 4K 24p. Full stop.
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Yeah, very dissapointing to go from 8k demos at the convention center to highly compressed 720p in the hotel.
 
jcs said:
That is weird. Twilight Zone weird.

Did you find Cooke- do they have a kitchen?
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One booth looks like a kitchen. I’ll have to see what it is in the morning. I am hoping it has an espresso bar.
 
Gary T said:
Black Magic Design's current website splash screen is exhibit A for why their competitors like Adobe and Avid who depend on revenue from post production software should be terrified. While it's hard to imagine a professional not being able to eventually afford a $299 tool, the free version of Resolve provides almost all of the functionality of the Studio version. The graphic below makes it clear that BMD's tools are already used to finish some of the biggest films in Hollywood, and with the free version of Resolve BMD has the enviable capability of attacking the market from the top and the bottom.

I doubt BMD will supplant Avid at the high end anytime soon but I think we are going to see Resolve used more in the indie space. If I were just starting out it would be the first tool I looked at, and I say this as a happy FCPX user.

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I am a happy FCPX user as well. However, I am aware about the improvements that needs to be done so that I can do everything within FCPX. Currently I am in documentary and commercial space. I want audio part to be more improved as well as effects
 
Scorpio is looking tasty.

The smallHD stuff is more slick and minimalist that before.
 
My first NAB was 30 years ago, 1989. Here is a scan of the daily newspaper I kept, and a random ad from it...

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Back then, everyone wore suits or at least a tie.

You couldn't take pictures in the hall.

HD was big CRT screens and tube camera prototypes without a final standard. Mitchell Camera still had a booth. There was no scrappy prosumer video crowd. Everything was "Big Iron"... Sony, Rank Cintel, Ampex. Avid had a booth for the first time. "Non-linear Editing" was the Montage System, a multi-betamax tape based NLE if you can wrap your head around that.

I've missed a few NABs over the years, but have been to a good 20 or so. Seen many trends come and go, watched HD vanish for a few years before finally landing for good. Saw the year of the dot com's with companies that only lasted a year. Good times.

Going to be on the show floor tomorrow, still valuable to go because you still can't touch a tripod or mess with a new light over the internet... :)

Regards,
 
scorsesefan said:
Remind me why we need 8K? Most of us don't need 4K yet...
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NHK premiered a 16K camera. And that was a year ago.

Jim Arthurs said:
My first NAB was 30 years ago, 1989. Here is a scan of the daily newspaper I kept, and a random ad from it...

HD was big CRT screens and tube camera prototypes without a final standard.
Regards,
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back then, the best image quality was off a laser disc through a high end line-doubling projector like Barco. Sony had a line-doubling 27" TV for $3,000 - one could have bought a 50" RP Mitsubishi for that - but the chips weren't powerful enough for action or, for that matter, any moving images.

A year or so later, Sony had a 43" tube TV that - allegedly - big movie stars came for. It weighted a ton ... maybe ton and a half.
 
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My first NAB was '99. I'd hatched a scheme to buy a Media 100 non-linear edit system that I planned to rent out, pay off and then use for cutting reels and my own projects. My goal at the show was to meet with the reps and work through a configuration for my system, for which I was budgeting $20K

At the show Apple lifted the curtain on something called Final Cut 1.0, which did pretty much everything the Media 100 hardware and software did and then some...for $1000, no special hardware needed.

Needless to say, I never thought about Media 100 again (they went bankrupt a few years later). Also, it's quaint to think that Apple used to be able to make major product announcements that took everyone by surprise.
 
Jim Arthurs said:
My first NAB was 30 years ago, 1989. Here is a scan of the daily newspaper I kept, and a random ad from it...

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Back then, everyone wore suits or at least a tie.

You couldn't take pictures in the hall.

HD was big CRT screens and tube camera prototypes without a final standard. Mitchell Camera still had a booth. There was no scrappy prosumer video crowd. Everything was "Big Iron"... Sony, Rank Cintel, Ampex. Avid had a booth for the first time. "Non-linear Editing" was the Montage System, a multi-betamax tape based NLE if you can wrap your head around that.

I've missed a few NABs over the years, but have been to a good 20 or so. Seen many trends come and go, watched HD vanish for a few years before finally landing for good. Saw the year of the dot com's with companies that only lasted a year. Good times.

Going to be on the show floor tomorrow, still valuable to go because you still can't touch a tripod or mess with a new light over the internet... :)

Regards,
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I think my first NAB was possibly '91 or '92. That's why I don't go anymore unless a client will write me a large check. NAB is about as appealing to me as getting a root canal but back in the day, it was actually a lot of fun and not so crowded. The last time I went was around 2013 and I was done. CineGear is so much smaller, more enjoyable and focused on what I do than NAB, NAB has a very high noise to signal ratio.
 
This is my first year, ever. I mostly came for the Faster Together event and have an edit going on a deadline from my hotel room, but I just peeked at the show floor (and will be doing more of that) and I must say it is very exciting and fun for someone who has been in the business for almost 10 years now but B&H or Burbank have thus far been the largest cluster of gear and talent in one room.
 
I continue to go to NAB ever other year to check out gear and renew relationships. I tend to see people that live or work close to me more frequently at NAB than I do around town, ironically. A few of the years I've been were "sponsored" by clients or companies I've promoted, or worked in their booth, like Digital Processing Systems/Leitch/Harris back in the day, but a good 15 or so of my 20 years I've just been on my own, wandering around.

My favorite "work" experience for NAB was designing all the art for the Convergent Design booth the year of the Gemini release (along with all the print and motion graphics support), then the next year physically building their new booth for the Odyssey 7Q release from scratch out in my shop on a ranch east of Colorado Springs.

That same year I was helping in the CD booth and a super-sick rep from Canon came up and sneezed open mouth all over me on a Monday morning. By Tuesday night I was so sick I couldn't talk. So take your vitamin C and keep some hand sanitizer close.

I've never been to CineGear, but it's on my list. I squandered the opportunity for many years, as I had a friend that rented an apartment within walking distance of the Paramount gates.
 
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