Calling all video gurus: Help! I have a few clips that I’ve got from a stock tape that exhibit a weird pulldown pattern. The footage looks looks to be originally shot in 25p (such as european film might be), and then converted to NTSC 30i in a 4:2 pattern, so the frame progression goes like…
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New Apple Pro Video Tools
Whatever real or imagined misgivings I had about the Mac back on April 1st, Apple’s NAB announcements have me floored. They’ve got new versions of all their Pro Film/Video apps: Final Cut Pro 4, DVD Studio Pro 2 (both of which come with a great new app called Compressor), and Shake 3. All of them…
Digital Video Technobabble
The world of digital video is evolving at an alarming rate. This week, at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, hundreds of companies gathered to show off their latest hardware and software. The message most heard at the convention is to move to digital production now.