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Microsoft unveils Windows Story Remix, a video editor for Windows 10

14 May

Windows Movie Maker is revived in Story Remix, an app announced today for Windows 10 users at Microsoft’s Build conference. It allows users to easily edit together photos and videos from their mobile and desktop collections into movie clips.

Microsoft’s presentation emphasizes its ease-of-use and collaboration features, but the attention-getter is the ability to easily drop in special effects. Fireballs, 3D-figures and text can be added to a scene and anchored to objects for a realistic-looking cinematic effect. 

For those less interested in customizing their video, Story Remix can automatically edit photos and videos into a movie with basic input from the user, presenting the option to ‘remix’ the whole thing if you don’t like what you get. The demonstrations certainly look clever – we’ll be interested to see how end users take to the final product.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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This video from an action cam strapped to a dog will make you laugh or make you sick, possibly both

14 May

Few things are as unshakable as the bond between humanity and our canine companions, except, perhaps, the bond between those canine companions and some good old tennis balls. Of course, the Sony X3000 action camera has optical stabilization, so it should be pretty unshakable too, but you’ll just have to watch the video to find out how it does. 

The video is part of an action camera roundup The Wirecutter did earlier this year, which includes the GoPro Hero5 Black, the Sony FDR-X3000 that’s used above, and the Yi 4K Action Camera, which was actually one of our favorites.

For the full scoop, head on over to the The Wirecutter, or catch the highlights on Engadget.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Spring on Speed: Time-Lapse Video Captures 3 Years of Blooming Flowers

13 May

[ By SA Rogers in Art & Photography & Video. ]

A single sweeping shot seems to capture an entire spring season of blooming flowers in this artfully directed time-lapse video, which took three years to record and complete. Filmmaker Jamie Scott captured almost all of the footage on a soundstage in the closet of his New York home, often against a black backdrop, placing the flowers in stark relief as they unfurl.

The sped-up result almost makes them look like sea creatures waving around under the sea, tentatively opening and then closing again as the camera passes over them. Scott started out filming the flowers from the front, but realized the effect was more dramatic if he shot them from above instead, shifting focus as he went.

In a behind-the-scenes interview with F-stoppers, Scott explains that he made the film in contrast to his previous time-lapse work entitled Fall. The difference between the two films isn’t just the season, but also the close-up shots, shallow depth of field, classical score and placing the camera on a slider.

Shanghai Tower Timelapse Film Captures 4 Years of Construction

The second-tallest building in the world seems to appear out of nowhere, shooting into the sky as if of its own accord, in this stunning time-lapse video of the skyline in Lujiazui, China taken …

NYC Comes Alive Around Massive Mural in Time Lapse Video

A 150-foot-tall figure of a man walking materializes on a Manhattan sidewalk, slowly coming into focus as the city awakens around it, in a new time-lapse video. French photographer and street …

Seconds to Years: 3 Scales of Time-Lapse Photography

With the rise of digital technologies, photographers are finding increasingly fascinating ways to capture minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and even entire years. Here are just three …

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This video of a bear chasing a biker is why POV cameras were invented

10 May
Hello Mr. Bear.

Action cameras have made documenting all of the extreme, dangerous and downright stupid things human beings subject themselves to an incredibly simple endeavor. But the truth is most folks’ videos end up looking more like this than like this, because sadly, our lives are just not as interesting as those of pro athletes.

But every now and then something happens during a seemingly run-of-the-mill action camera video that makes every mundane clip that preceded it suddenly feel worth the boredom. I give you, the bear chasing a mountain biker video:

The footage was shot by Dusan Vinžíkwho who was riding with a buddy at a mountain bike park in Slovakia, when suddenly a bear runs out on the trail – it seemingly follows the one rider for a bit before veering off back into the woods.

Of course, there’s a good chance the bear was not actually chasing the rider, and that its presence was purely coincidentally. But the fact remains: keep those action cameras running, because you might actually get something good.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Is it time to adopt DaVinci Resolve for video editing?

06 May

Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve has a well deserved reputation as one of the best (if not the best) color grading software for film and video editing. But over the past few years, the company has put a lot of effort toward developing Resolve into a full suite of editing tools as well. With Resolve 14, introduced last week at NAB, Blackmagic has now added Fairlight audio editing tools to complement the software’s color and nonlinear editing tools.

NewsShooter posted a video interview with Blackmagic president Dan May, who talks about some of the improvements in Resolve 14. You can see the original story at newsshooter.com.

Would you consider switching to Resolve for video editing? Tell us in the comments.

 

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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$138,000 unboxing video!

04 May

Linus Tech Tips just published a very entertaining unboxing video that shows what’s not included when you buy a RED Weapon 8K camera (or two). At least you get free stickers. 

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This 12K rig uses six Panasonic Lumix GX80s for 360-degree video

03 May

UK-based filmmaker Nick Driftwood has been busy, making a 360-degree video rig using six Panasonic Lumix GX80 (GX85 in the US) bodies, each fitted with a 3.25mm lens, covering a field of view of 243-degrees. With each camera shooting 4K video, 2880 X 2880px X 6 equals 12K footage. He showed it off to our friends at Photo Gear News last week at the NAB show in Las Vegas.

The super-wide lenses come from Hong Kong 360 company iZugar, and the camera takes advantage of the 1:1 video capability that Panasonic offers in its 4K Photo mode.

Even if you’re not interested in 360-degree video, it’s worth watching just for the guy in the background at 0:53.

A sample of the output from Nick’s 12K rig can be found below.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Blackmagic Designs promises scopes for 4K Video Assist monitor/recorder

25 Apr

Blackmagic designs has announced a variety of professional ‘scopes’ will be added to its Video Assist 4K monitor/recorder. In the meantime, the company has also added support for ten extra languages.

Firmware v2.5, due in June, will add waveform, RGB parade, vectorscope and histogram options to the device. These can either be displayed on a black background, overlaid on top of the video feed or shown as picture-in-picture frames.

Waveform, RGB parade and vectorscope are tools used by video professionals for quickly assessing exposure and color. These are powerful tools, each of which gives a different way of understanding the brightness and color makeup of the footage, to help set up and monitor your video as you capture it.

‘Scopes’ being added to the Video Assist 4K include this RGB parade, showing the spacial distribution of per-channel brightness values within the scene, helping with exposure and color balance.

We were recently impressed when the Panasonic DC-GH5 became the first camera we’ve reviewed to provide in-camera scopes, but the addition of these functions to the Video Assist mean that they’re now accessible to anyone shooting with a camera offering HDMI output.

Update v2.4, available today, adds support for ten additional languages, meaning the device can now be operated in: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

The latest firmware can be downloaded from the Blackmagic Designs website.

Press Release:

Blackmagic Design Announces New Professional Scopes and Multi Lingual Support for Video Assist

New software update supports 10 additional languages, plus a beta demonstration of full professional scopes for professional monitoring.

NAB 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada – April 24, 2017 – Blackmagic Design today announced the immediate availability of Blackmagic Video Assist 2.4 update which adds support for multi-lingual support for 10 separate languages. This means customers can now use Video Assist in their native language. This update is available now as a free update for all Blackmagic Video Assist and Blackmagic Video Assist 4K customers.

Also demonstrated at the NAB 2017 show are powerful new professional scopes operating on the Blackmagic Video Assist 4K model, including waveform, RGB parade, vectorscope and histogram that can be viewed full screen for accurately evaluating video signals passing through Blackmagic Video Assist 4K. These scopes are shown as a development preview and will also be available in June as a software update free of charge for all Blackmagic Video Assist 4K customers.

Customers can see a beta demonstration of the new language support and preview the new professional scopes on Blackmagic Video Assist 4K at the Blackmagic Design NAB 2017 booth at #SL216.

The new scopes make the Blackmagic Video Assist 4K model perfect for live production monitoring, as portable test scope for broadcasters, and even for balancing color when color grading using the RGB parade scope.

The new localized Video Assist adds interface support for Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. This broad language support now makes it easier for more customers to use Video Assist anywhere in the world.

“Video Assist has become an indispensable part of everyone’s production kit,” said Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. “It’s the perfect portable field monitor and recorder. The addition of full blown professional scopes makes it even more exciting and useful for customers. Plus, the new multi-lingual interface will make it easier for non-English speaking customers to use it!”

Availability and Price

Blackmagic Video Assist 2.4 update is available now from the Blackmagic Design website free of charge for all current Blackmagic Video Assist and Blackmagic Video Assist 4K customers. Blackmagic Video Assist 2.5, which will support scopes on the Blackmagic Video Assist 4K model will be available in June.

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Panasonic GH5 gets 10-bit 4:2:2 1080 video in first of promised firmware updates

19 Apr

When Panasonic introduced the Lumix DC-GH5, it made the bold promise that it would release not one, but two firmware updates that would significantly increase the performance of the camera. The first was to arrive in April and the second a bit later in ‘Summer 2017.’

True to its word, Panasonic has announced firmware v1.1 for the GH5, bringing 4:2:2 10-bit Full HD video capture and a series of enhanced capture options for anamorphic shooters.

The firmware brings 4:2:2 10-bit IPB capture at 100Mbps to 1080/59.97p resolution. Anamorphic shooters also get 10-bit 4:2:2 IPB capture but with the larger, 3328 x 2496 shooting region encoded at 150Mbps. The update also includes two minor bug-fixes.

Higher resolution anamorphic video capture, along with 400Mbps All-I capture for 4K and 200Mbps All-I capture for Full HD will follow in the summer release.

Press Release

DC-GH5 Firmware Update Service Ver.1.1 for Expansion of 4:2:2 10-bit Video Recording Mode

Panasonic is announcing the new firmware update program Ver.1.1 for DC-GH5 to further enhance its performance. The new firmware Ver.1.1 enables 4:2:2 10-bit video recording in either FHD [MP4(LPCM)] / [MOV] and Anamorphic (4:3) mode, in addition to the existing 4K video recording mode.

4:2:2 10-bit FHD [MP4(LPCM)] / [MOV]

Item

System frequency

Size

Frame rate

Bit rate

YUV/bit

Image compression

[FHD/10bit/100M/60p]

59.94Hz

(NTSC)

1920 x 1080

59.94p

100 Mbps

4:2:2/10 bit

Long GOP

[FHD/10bit/100M/30p]

1920 x 1080

29.97p

100 Mbps

4:2:2/10 bit

Long GOP

[FHD/10bit/100M/24p]

1920 x 1080

23.98p

100 Mbps

4:2:2/10 bit

Long GOP

[FHD/10bit/100M/50p]

50.00Hz

(PAL)

1920 x 1080

50.00p

100 Mbps

4:2:2/10 bit

Long GOP

[FHD/10bit/100M/25p]

1920 x 1080

25.00p

100 Mbps

4:2:2/10 bit

Long GOP

[FHD/10bit/100M/24p]

24.00Hz

(CINEMA)

1920 x 1080

24.00p

100 Mbps

4:2:2/10 bit

Long GOP

?When [Miniature Effect] is selected for Creative Control Mode, you cannot select the items used for 4:2:2/10 bit motion pictures.

4:2:2 10-bit Anamorphic (4:3) mode

Item

System frequency

Size

Frame rate

Bit rate

YUV/bit

Image compression

[4K/A/150M/30p]

59.94Hz

(NTSC)

3328 x 2496

29.97p

150 Mbps

4:2:2/10 bit

Long GOP

[4K/A/150M/24p]

3328 x 2496

23.98p

150 Mbps

4:2:2/10 bit

Long GOP

[4K/A/150M/25p]

50.00Hz

(PAL)

3328 x 2496

25.00p

150 Mbps

4:2:2/10 bit

Long GOP

[4K/A/150M/24p]

24.00Hz

(CINEMA)

3328 x 2496

24.00p

150 Mbps

4:2:2/10 bit

Long GOP

?[Anamorphic(4:3)] is available only when the camera is set to Creative Video Mode.

The firmware version 1.1 also includes following firmware fixes that reflect customer feedback:

  • A problem in which the exposure adjustment did not operate properly during live view standby under specific conditions using [Variable Frame Rate].
  • A problem in which afterimages appeared when recording video under high ISO sensitivity settings in using [V-LogL]

The new DC-GH5 firmware Ver 1.1 is scheduled to be released on 24 April, 2017 at the following LUMIX Customer Support website: http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/

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At the market: Panasonic GH5 sample video

08 Apr

We’ve been hard at work testing the new Panasonic GH5, and while we put the finishing touches on our review, we wanted to share a video we shot with the camera at Seattle’s Pike Place Market.

The video was recorded in UHD 4K with the GH5’s 4:2:2 10-bit color settings. To capture the wide dynamic range in many of the scenes, we filmed using VLog gamma and used a VLog to Rec.709 LUT as a starting point for color grading. We also wanted to see how well the GH5’s white balance worked, so the entire video was captured using auto WB, and we haven’t made any white balance corrections, allowing you to see how the camera did in this regard. Audio was recorded using the built-in microphones.

Enjoy this little slice of life in Seattle as we finish up our review of the GH5!

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