Tech Talk

Avid Offers Unprecedented Symphony 6 Crossgrade

Media Composer and Final Cut Pro users can save over 80% on Symphony, enabling accelerated storytelling with a suite of professional editing, color correction, and mastering tools

New Cinedeck field recorder

We recently took delivery of a demo Cinedeck uncompressed field recorder for evaluation. This product was a highlight at NAB 2010, winning several awards. Read on for a brief review

Sony’s first OLED professional monitor

Sony’s first OLED professional monitor, the PVM740, was one of the stars at the recent NAB Show, and is now available ex-factory.

LCD Field monitors – lots of new options.

Marshall have just expanded their range of 7″ ‘on board’ type LCD field monitors, the V-LCD70XP-HDMI. In a nutshell they have added an HDMI input instead of the HD/SDSDI input that was in the V-LCD70P series. 

AJA Ki-Pro

The Ki Pro is a portable hard disc recorder that basically takes any kind of signal input, including HDSDI, SDSDI, component, composite and even HDMI, as well as balanced and unbalanced audio and records it all to the Apple Pro Res 10 bit 422 video codec (HQ, Pro Res or LT), onto a removable SATA or solid state hard drive. It also up/down/ sideways converts the incoming video to match the recording codec, and provides various video outputs for monitoring.

GPS data with the HXRNX5

To access the GPS data that is recorded by the NX5, you need to use the Content Management software that comes with the camera

CMOS versus CCD

Over the past few years, many video and still camera manufacturers have begun using CMOS image sensors as a replacement to traditional CCD image sensors in their digital imaging products.

Both technologies have advantages and disadvantages. One of the key advantages of CMOS technology is that CMOS sensors can be produced with high pixel count, with very good sensitivity at a lower production cost cost than CCD.

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