May 23rd SMPTE NE & BOSCPUG to Feature "Father of Video Games"
Written by Staff
Tuesday, 08 May 2012
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"PIONEERS OF THE VIDEO INDUSTRY"
RALPH H. BAER
"I can never thank Ralph enough for what he gave to me and everyone else." - Steve Wozniak, co-founder Apple Computers
Portrait of Ralph H. Baer by German Designer and Artist Barto
RSVP TO ATTEND NOW AT:
Networking and Refreshments Begin at 6:30pm
Presentation: 7pm-9pm
After the meeting Mr. Baer will have a limited supply of his Book "Videogames: In the Beginning" available for purchase with his autograph. Mr. Baer also comments that he has been around long enough in the Electronics Industry to have been offered a job by Lee DeForest! It should be a GREAT evening for us!
Join the BOSFCPUG as we team up with our friends at SMPTE New England for yet another must-attend networking & socializing mixer to be held in the studios of National Boston Video Center at 115 Dummer Street in Boston!
With special thanks to SMPTE member David P. Allen, the contributing Editor, Emeritus of Videography Magazine, we are pleased to present a special evening of retrospective and reflection with Ralph H. Baer, a distinguished Video Technologist, Inventor and Consultant.
Ralph H. Baer, inventor, technical developer (with over 150 U.S. Patents) and consultant is the creator of the first video game console (Magnavox Odyssey) and considered by many as the "father of video games" In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology for inventing the home console for video games and spawning the video game industry.
Producers, Editors, Digital Content Creators: Get out of your production offices and editing suites to Network and interact with members of Boston's digital filmmaking community as you mingle and swap stories and business cards.
SMPTE NEW ENGLAND & BOSCPUG PRESENT:
"PIONEERS OF THE VIDEO INDUSTRY"
DATE: Wednesday, May 23rd
TIMES: 7:00PM - 9:00PM (Doors open at 6:30PM)
VENUE:National Boston Video Center 115 Dummer St. Brookline, MA (near BU and Commonwealth Ave.) URL: http://www.nationalboston.com
Direct from 2012 NAB Show, AJA Video Systems is pleased to announce major new products, significant product updates and deeper integration with our partners, Autodesk and Adobe!
New products this year include two additions to the Ki Pro family: the Ki Pro Rack and Ki Pro Quad.
The Ki Pro Rack is a space-saving 1RU form factor with the familiar Ki Pro user interface. It is designed for file-based workflows, supporting both Apple ProRes 422 and Avid DNxHD codecs. The Ki Pro Rack is available now for US MSRP $3995. Read more about the Ki Pro Rack here.
The second addition to the Ki Pro family, the Ki Pro Quad, is a special “NAB Sneak Peak”, that is a solid state video recorder that, when paired with new high-resolution cameras, becomes the hub of breakthrough new 4K workflows. Ki Pro Quad brings AJA’s lens-to-post workflows to HD 4:4:4, 2K, and 4K resolutions!
AJA is also introducing the T-TAP, a device designed for laptop editors that need external monitoring. The T-TAP provides high-quality HD/SD-SDI and HDMI output from any Thunderbolt™-enabled computer. The T-TAP will be available soon for US MSRP $249. Read more about T-TAP here.
Blackmagic Design Announces Blackmagic Cinema Camera
Written by Staff
Saturday, 21 April 2012
Blackmagic Design has announced the Blackmagic Cinema Camera, a revolutionary digital cinema camera design that includes powerful features such as super wide 13 stops of dynamic range, high resolution 2.5K sensor, built in high bandwidth SSD recorder, open file format support, color correction with full version of DaVinci Resolve and a built in LCD with metadata entry, all in an attractive compact design for only US$2,995.
Many current generation video cameras suffer from a "video look" due to a limited contrast range, a maximum HD resolution sensor, poor quality optics and lenses, the use of heavy video compression for file recording and poor integration with NLE software metadata management. With these limitations, they cannot be used for high end work or feature films.
Blackmagic Cinema Camera has been designed to eliminate these problems so customers get a true feature film look, and at an affordable cost can shoot high end television commercials, episodic television programming and feature films.
Blackmagic Cinema Camera Blackmagic Cinema Camera includes a super wide 13 stops of dynamic range, large 2.5K sensor, a built in SSD recorder that has the bandwidth to capture open standard CinemaDNG RAW, ProRes and DNxHD files, a built in capacitive touch screen LCD for direct metadata entry, standard jack audio connections, built in high-speed Thunderbolt connection, 3 Gb/s SDI output, a refrigerated sensor for low noise, and is fully compatible with extremely high quality Canon EF and Zeiss ZF mount lenses.
Blackmagic Cinema Camera also includes a full copy of DaVinci Resolve for color correction and Blackmagic UltraScope software for waveform monitoring. UltraScope can be run on a laptop connected to the camera via a Thunderbolt connection.
One of the most important features of the camera is its super wide dynamic range of 13 stops, allowing feature film quality images. Commonly people focus on more pixels, however often this just creates a higher resolution, but still "video" looking images that suffer from highlight and black clipping that limits details. Blackmagic Cinema Camera's wide dynamic range eliminates this problem and provides film quality with dramatically more detail retained in black and whites in the image. Once the shoot is complete, the included DaVinci Resolve color correction software can be used to adjust images and take advantage of this extra range in the images. The high quality EF and ZF lens compatibility also helps create sharp and cinematic images that look incredible.
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