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TOIA's NAB... DAY 1 - The Stand outs.

Thank you, Mark. I had some meetings in Los Angeles which have prevented me from making my first pilgrimage to NAB this year, but I am very happy to hear that the new version of Adobe CS is such an improvement on the already very good CS 5.5 I see a Mac upgrade for my laptop and a Windows upgrade for my desktop in my future. :)
 
Thx Mark, smoke and speedgrade are my favorites at the moment sadly slow 4k in smoke is a nogo maybe its a good idea to make the pre-edit in pp with 4k raw...use warp stabilizer, reframe, raw CC etc.
and render the timeline with only the best shots out and make the edit, vfx and grad in smoke...edit and grading in one app back and forth would be a dream...i will try it tomorrow =)
 
Mark, swing by 16x9 booth and look at their matte boxes and handgrips. I was impressed by the quality and price of them. Let us know what you think. I agree that wooden camera is doing great things, nice guys too.
 
Mark Toia said:
LEICA LENSES win the best ever lens award. Kills everything.... But not the price, FUCK ME! They are dreaming!
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As they appear to be back ordered forever and had to build a new production line to cope, it looks like others are dreaming with them!
 
Thanks for the terrific NAB update Mark. EXACTLY what I was after as I was weighing up buying Resolve vs staying in CS6 with Speedgrade.
You just made up my mind for me. Very interested to hear you final Laptop decision also mate.

Thanks again

Best

Lliam
 
Who made the Keyer? Is it a stand alone or was it part of something else? I think I missed something.
 
thanks mark.. stalking the internet for updates and this kinda stuff really helps..

just one question: you say the BM could make the best 4K handycam; as far as I understand
and read the specs it's supposed to be 2.5K [only raw] and HD [ProRes/Avid] did I get it
wrong?

enjoy some NAB for me.. hope to go there one day..
 
Thanks mark...I finally got my account activated here. just got my scarlet! havent even used it yet, and so many great news coming out in our favor RED FAN/USERS.... awesoem stuff!!! :)
 
Mark,

Excellent frank and honest coverage. Many thanks for filling me in.
 
Thanks for the update about "Smoke" & red files I was seriously weighting up this system. I'm so over "round tripping" I thought this might've been it.

CS 6 sounds interesting, like the sound of the new colour correction package hopefully they have also updated the basic 3 wheel CC in Premier which at the moment sucks big time in 5.5.
 
Joost Kelderman said:
thanks mark.. stalking the internet for updates and this kinda stuff really helps..

just one question: you say the BM could make the best 4K handycam; as far as I understand
and read the specs it's supposed to be 2.5K [only raw] and HD [ProRes/Avid] did I get it
wrong?

enjoy some NAB for me.. hope to go there one day..
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My mistake. 2.5 k. Yes. Arri Alexa size. (touch smaller)
had a play With it today. Not impressed... But hey. It is what it is. A box with a lens on it. It's fun. As a pro camera... I doupt people in my game will take it seriously. But as a studio or a raw camera to play with. Hey! Why not. The pictures look good enough for anything that goes to air & web.
 
[COLOR=#FFFFFF !important]Ok.. DAY 2: Ill keep this one quick and to the point. This blogging thing is not my game.

Not much to report.. but here goes.

It was a hard hard slog today. Was really looking deep into the corners and back rooms of NAB.
Sometimes you can find some amazing stuff that some little vender has made and has no clew how to market them selves. I call these guys "SLEEPERS" or soon to be broke!

Slider rigs... OMG... If I see another slider rig released, I'll choke. NAB this year is quite literally SLIDER RIG or SHOULDER MOUNT Alley !!! competition in the area is so huge now. ZUCATO.. like had a bracket for everything...
The Digital stills/video camera gadjet world has gone absolutely nuts. Anyone who's anyone are making brackets, gadgets, nick nacs by the thousands... you name it, it's out there. To me most of the shoulder mounts out there are just straight rubbish. Thin, cheap junk. But hey! They probably still work. Then you get a the occasional well thought out shoulder mount... like WOODEN Cameras, $1495.. model. Then there are the top shelf models.... and to be honest. RED's clutch is still the king of the kids after looking through them all today.... for the EPIC/SCALET crowd that is.

Back to slider rigs... actually NO! To many to talk about. One day I will need one... and Ill probably rent it... Its such a fad right now. moving on.

LED lights...
Massive amounts of lights dealers... blinding you at every turn. This year was much of the same. Pretty much everyone had a rip off of LITEPANEL... cheaper, some brighter...
Rosco for me have the best idea with there 5 mm think panels, but not really bright enough compare to the rest... but awesome to be able to tape to things.. light! very very light in weight. They get my nod.
http://www.rosco.com/us/video/litepad_ho.cfm

The best & brightest (single colour only) LED lights were some Korean built things... Yes!!!! seriously beautiful soft light. Actually the best light from any of them. Everyone else had bare bulb LED.. yes you could put a trace frame over them.. but still the type of soft light falling from these things was just stunning... looked so nice on skin... just gorgeous. In studio conditions shooting beauty / food / art / product... Clear winners for me. But I'm a fussy fussy lighting guy. They had a 3 foot x 1.5 foot panel in a solid box. 12kg. Touch heavy, but had a good solid build to it. In studio conditions shooting beauty / food / art.... These were the stand outs for me if you want pure beauty light.
You could do wonders with 2 or 3 of these....
http://www.auroralitebank.com/

Monitors...
Well.. it's getting tough now.. Monitors are looking fantastic everywhere.. new tech, people lifting there game everywhere.
SONY still have the gong this year with the OLED... Even though I thing the blacks are to black... (yes silly as it sounds) But as a deep rich image is asked for... it certainly wins.

TV logic, JVC and PANASONIC had some great 4k monitors coming out.... Very impressive indeed.

But to be honest. I walked past a both that had a SAMSUNG LED 8000 domestic monitor in it... playing next to a pro monitor worth almost 10x more... and the SAMSUNG LED just kicked arse. It was so sharp, crisp ans colourful I thought it was 4k for a moment. I would really think of the SAMSUNG as being used as a pro monitor for client previews.

There was a silent buzz going around the NAB camps that APPLE are about to release 4k/5k led 27 inch for under 3k. (Thunderbolt). Using the same tech as the new IPAD3.... How true this I do not know... I do know of somebody that has seen this monitor in the flesh last year. but !!!!... APPLE are shockingly quite these days. Who the hell knows that they are doing...
So knowing that this miracle monitor is (possibly) coming out from APPLE... is it wise to buy a PRO Monitor as yet.... Apple LEDS are amazing, there is know one disputing that. a 4/5k version. WOW...

Ok... ADOBE... Here me now! Some of the guys demoing your creative suites are useless... (nice people though) They amount of times I asked questions to the reply of .... uuuuuummmm... Im not sure if it can do that. Or I'm not sure how to do it... Der!!! Was starting to drive me nuts.

That said... I'm not worried. Ive seen it working with my own eyes... I've seen R3D's paying out live.. THATS SOLD FOR ME!!! 1/2 res playback is still better than 2k res. I can deal with that. SPEED-GRADE is good... BUT I NEED SOMEONE GOOD THERE TO SHOW ME IT PROPERLY !!!!!!!

Premier.. sweet. I asked the ADOBE to to give me 5 minutes to tinker... and I did everything FCP did and more... I just have to fund out were all there buttons hide. I think about 1 week it will take and I will be fluent with it.
MAC laptop... with PREMIER.. SSD drives! MAX out the RAM... There is know skimping on horse power. R3D's are still heavy.
MAC TOWER work... CUDA CARD! speed the money on the big one.. There is know skimping on horse power... For pretty much realtime everything.

AUTODESK SMOKE. Gave it one more chance today... Bombed out... Just to heavy, to clunky.. rendering just drive me nuts. 2k max.. laptop.. forget it unless your working in HD prores or some form of soft data.
But that keyer!!! is so fricken good.

Ok, Im just repeating itself now...

Tomorrow is all about Microphones... that plug into the EPIC and just work!!!!

Have a nice day all...

OH... Jarred. Thanks for not punching me in the face today. I was ready for ya... I had my tazer charged up. :)))) Kidding. Nice meeting you today.

Cheers all.
PS excuse spelling / gramma.. know time to go back over this.., Heading to an ELVIS show and dinner :)))[/COLOR]
 
Mark Toia said:
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There was a silent buzz going around the NAB camps that APPLE are about to release 4k/5k led 27 inch for under 3k. (Thunderbolt). Using the same tech as the new IPAD3.... How true this I do not know... I do know of somebody that has seen this monitor in the flesh last year. but !!!!... APPLE are shockingly quite these days. Who the hell knows that they are doing...
So knowing that this miracle monitor is (possibly) coming out from APPLE... is it wise to buy a PRO Monitor as yet.... Apple LEDS are amazing, there is know one disputing that. a 4/5k version. WOW...
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Hmm....I may have started that rumor prior NAB. Oh wait, no I said 8K.
Steve Sherrick said:
Apple to announce 8K Advanced Retina Display.
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