News Production Technologies Support Seamless Working From Home March 5^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

With the pandemic’s alarming numbers now decreasing, news anchors have carefully begun reporting from the studio again, albeit in separate parts of the building and socially distanced. However, the IP-enabled technology and remote workflows developed by equipment vendors across the industry during the worst of it have endured and w…

Presented In Cinemascope March 31^st 2020 - 01:00 PM

Electronic camera manufacturers have spent – by some measures – something like the last twenty years trying to make digital cameras that shoot pictures that look like real movies. Now, they’re making cameras with larger and larger sensors, the better to simulate the sort of cameras that shot some of the great…

Moving Cameras March 11^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

The world’s oldest surviving motion picture, often called Roundhay Garden Scene, does not include any camera movement. It’d be tricky to imagine anything approaching a move, since the scene, which was shot in 1888 by Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince on a camera of his own invention, is just a h…

BSC 2020 Roundup February 17^th 2020 - 11:00 AM

BSC Expo 2020 continues to grow in strength. Full of talks, demonstrations, and the latest kit, this year’s BSC Expo even had film on show.

Production Basics Are Still Important In The Era Of Video Democratization October 21^st 2019 - 09:00 AM

Now that virtually anyone can afford a very high quality video camera, the democratization of video production is in full play. With that comes shortcuts adapted by newcomers that make the video quality dreadful, but become acceptable through frequent use. In a way, it is a dumbing down of video…

The Modern Moving Camera October 14^th 2019 - 09:00 AM

One of the classic examples of great motion picture photography is Orson Welles’s breathtaking tracking shot at the opening of his film, Touch of Evil. The camera, mounted on a Chapman crane, begins on a close-up of a ticking time bomb and ends a tense three-plus minutes later with…

How to Distinguish a Video Tripod from a Photo Tripod June 24^th 2019 - 08:00 AM

There are a flood of tripods on the market today, and many are not distinguished as video or photo tripods. Especially with very light weight cameras, some models are now combined. It is easy to pick the wrong model for the type of video shooting you will do. Here is…

How Video Shooting Styles Are Changing June 13^th 2019 - 01:50 PM

Since portable video became widespread in the mid-1970s, most videographers shot handheld. Video cameras were heavy — but well balanced — and most professional shooters learned to hold the camera very steady. Now, most cameras are much lighter — often too light for handheld shooting — and gimbals, sliders, motion controllers and stabilizers have fi…

Cine Gear Expo 2019 Hits Hollywood June 10^th 2019 - 12:05 PM

The Paramount Studios back lot was filled with new production gear and Hollywood pros, students and wanna-be’s alike who poured over the 2019 Cine Gear Expo.

True Bangkok United F.C. Chooses ChyronHego’s Coach Paint Telestration Tool May 22^nd 2019 - 08:00 AM

The coaches of Thailand’s #1 soccer team, True Bangkok United Football Club, have recruited ChyronHego’s Coach Paint Telestration system to pitch their strategies on the pitch

Creative Analysis: Part 21 - Cinematographer Markus Förderer On Bliss April 16^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Speculative fiction is something that’s often hovered on the borders of drama, fantasy and sci-fi, and one of the huge benefits of the streaming media revolution is that much more of the genre has found a way in front of both a camera and a large audience.

Three Tips To Accelerate Your IP (ST 2110) Deployments April 13^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

The year 2020 was a big milestone for the broadcast industry. All major events were cancelled, but media operations still needed to produce shows and events even during the crisis. More than ever, broadcasters turned to the remote production and IP production; in fact, according to Omdia, 37% of media enterprises are…

Lossless Compression: Rewriting Data More Efficiently April 8^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

There are many types of codecs, all used for specific purposes to reduce file sizes and make them easier to distribute down a limited bandwidth pipe. Lossy compression and Lossless compression are the two most common categories of data compression used to reduce the size of data without significant loss…

Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 10 - Summary April 5^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

In this final part of the series, an attempt will be made to summarize all that has gone before and to see what it means.

HDR: Part 22 - Creative Technology - Non Standard April 1^st 2021 - 09:00 AM

Read too much film and TV industry technical literature, and it’s easy to get the impression that everything about the technology is built to carefully considered specifications. As Philo Farnsworth’s wife was probably aware, though, as he tinkered with the electronics while she sat in as a test sub…

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