WOW – Magic Lantern’s EOS 5D Mark II Firmware Adds More Manual Controls

There are still some issues with this hack but EOS 5D Mark II owners will be interested new Magic Lantern firmware developed by Trammell Hudson. The new code adds on-screen audio meters, audio and video gain control with the option to disable the auto settings, zebra stripe masking of overexposed areas, and on-screen aspect ratio overlays It’s billed as an “open platform,” so there should be many more plugins and tweaks forthcoming.

Video below.

….brad….

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Video Highlights From InfoComm 2009

I didn’t make the trek this year to InfoComm 2009 but as luck would have it I came across a stash of videos produced by rAVe [Publications]. It looks like high quality Laser Projection, lampless LED projectors, cheap 3D projection, LCOS projection, and low latency IP based H.264 could be part of the future. Here are the technologies that caught my eye;

ESLP 8K Laser Projector – Wow an 8K Projector… And It’s Laser!

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ClearONE’s Titan Media Cart – Portable Dual Monitor Workstation

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BenQ’s Complete Cart Solution for 3D Projection – Rollaround 3D!

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DLP’s 3D Ready Projector – Wow! More 3D….

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Projection Design F22 SX 3D Projector

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3D LED Scalable Displays – Forget The Projector……

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Canon Talks About Differences between LCD and LCOS Displays – Hmmm! What Is The Difference?

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Panasonics 65″, 85″, and 103″ Displays – New 85″ Display!

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DLP’s Lamp Free Projector – Look Ma No Lamps!

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DPI’s M-Vision LED Projector – No Lamps Again!!

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Coolux Media System – Solid Drive Speaker System – Look Ma No Speakers!

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Ovea: 3D Mouse – The Amazing Floating Mouse

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Pantel’s Outdoor Weather-Proof  TV – For When The Rain Comes

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3M Ten Finger Touch Screen System Developer Kit – For Those Of Us Who Have Ten Fingers.

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Uber Pan Multi-resolution Green Hippo Hippotizer – Best Product Name and Yes! It’s a Revolution in Multi-resolution.

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Electrosonic’s New JPEG2000 Player – Yes It Is DCI Compliant

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HaiVision Demonstrates Its MPEG4 AVC (H.264) Low Latency VideoFurnace – Finally Live 1080p Video Over A Network

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HaiVision Custom Bi-Directional Multistreem Codecs That Enable Two-Way Video over IP with Super Low Latency – Two Way Low Latency Video…. That Rocks….

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Kramer Electronic’s HDMI Switching System

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The complete collection of video’s (over 100) can be found at rAVe [Publications] rAVe Video site if you have a need for more video….

….brad….

Clay Shirky – It’s All About Conversations

I took the requisite 20 minutes out of my life this morning to watch Clay Shirky’s presentation at TED. It is very hard at times for me to explain to my colleagues how media has changed since the 1950’s, Shirky nails it here explaining that previous century’s media allowed for either individual conversations or addressing groups. He points out how the Internet is the first medium that allows both and supports that the Internet is all about conversations.

Shirky, who talks on the Internets effects, argues that emerging technologies enabling loose collaboration is changing the way our society works. He gives really great examples and explains how since the introduction of the Internet and the introduction of inexpensive technology has made everyone a consumer and a contributor. He explains why organizations have to employ Web 2.0 technologies to convene their community and not to try to control it.

To me he makes a strong case for using the Internet to convene a community and support it.

It’s all about conversations…..

It’s amazing how may people still don’t “get it”.

….brad….

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Cinematographer Gordon Willis talks about Godfather

Gordon Willis is known as the the prince of darkness in Film production circles. In the video below he talks about exposure and how he’s applied it in a few films he’s shot (primarily the Godfather series) and how his use of yellow light defined period movies for a period of time……..brad….

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Cinematographer Gordon Willis talks about Godfather

Gordon Willis is known as the the prince of darkness in Film production circles. In the video below he talks about exposure and how he’s applied it in a few films he’s shot (primarily the Godfather series) and how his use of yellow light defined period movies for a period of time……..brad….

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Toronto Final Cut Pro Users Group NAB 2009 Presentation

In case you are interested the links to the videos that were made of my NAB 2009 report at May’s Toronto Final Cut Pro users group are provided below;

Part 1
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Part 2
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The Politics Of Fonts

What more can be said around the politics of Fonts that’s not said in this video….

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