E-films are pleased to announce their new product line the HDR, to join
our expanding line of devices aimed at Sony EX1/EX3 customers, says Ross
Herewini, Product Development Manager and Professional Videographer at
E-films.
The e-films HDR is a portable hard disk recording system for the EX series
cameras, allowing the user to record to an external hard disk while on
location, gaining long recording times at affordable prices. The user inserts
the HDR express card into the EX-1 or EX-3 camera and connects the cable
to the hard disk enclosure and presses record. The unit comes with a
battery pack to allow up to 5 hours of recording on 84GB hard disks.
The HDR is $299.95 and made up of the following items.
1) Expresscard/34 Card with USB interface for the camera and a Mini-
USB out to connect to the hard disk.
2) Custom L shaped Mini-USB cable made of the highest quality
cabling and connectors.
3) Customised hard disk enclosure to allow the highest compatibility
with HDD and SSD.
4) Rechargeable power supply for the HDD enclosure.
All the user needs to do is provide a Hard Disk Drive!
EFilms
Adam Wilt in his Camera Log writes of the demise of SxS Card with
the new announcement that the 13 & 15 MacBook Pros have dropped the Expresscard34 in favor of an SD slot.
Don't panic yet, as the 17" MBP will still retain it.
Optical, File-based Workflow Is Perfect Match for Production of Leading Reality Shows
LAS VEGAS (NAB Booth #C11001) April 19, 2009 Reality TV shows such as Survivor, Expedition Africa: Stanley & Livingstone, The Contender and Wedding Day all have very different premises, but they have one common thread: They are produced using Sonys XDCAMź Professional Disc System. They are also all produced by Mark Burnett Productions.
The leading producer of reality TV programming has made XDCAM optical technology its preferred format for the majority of its programming.
The system is our preferred format of choice as weve become an XDCAM house, said Chris Campbell, Executive in Charge of Post for Mark Burnett Productions. Weve transitioned nearly all of our shows onto XDCAM, whether its XDCAM HD for Survivor, The Contender, Expedition Africa: Stanley & Livingstone, or Wedding Day, or earlier versions of XDCAM for our standard-def shows.
Sony has posted a series of talks and videos presented at NAB 2009.
Many of the titles refer to XDCAM cameras and workflow.
Worth a look in - with some notable experts giving some handy tips.
NAB 2009 Videos
Art Adams gets an official response from Sony on the far red contamination with the EX cameras - "it's more about helping than hindering".
Pro Video Coalition
Calibrated{Q} Import plugins are cross-platform QuickTime plugins for NATIVE Importing and Playback of select MXF or MP4 Files in QuickTime Player on Windows & OSX, and in Final Cut Studio 2 Applications and other QuickTime enabled applications on OSX.
Calibated Software and Demo software HERE
Severe location conditions and quality concerns compel the producers of SnowTrax and DirtTrax to go tapeless with the Sony PMW-EX1.
Digiital Video
The Abel Cine Blog reveals the update for the data record on the PDW-U1.
"Lastly we will also see another upgrade to the PDW-U1 drive that will enable full UserData writing. That means youll be able to write any data to the disc. This is a great way to back up footage or just about anything, and the XDCAM EX Clip Browser 2.5 will allow direct copying from SxS cards to the UserData directory on the the disc."
The blog reveals the release for around the end of June.
Hopefully it means June 2009!
Another excuse to have an iPhone.
From the Had To Happen or I Told You So files comes this great innovation from ProPrompter.
Upload the script and download to your iPod or iPhone. There are seven scrolling speeds that can be changed 'on the fly' by tapping the screen.
So next time you see a little bump during a shot and the presenter speeds up.....
The software is waiting for approval from Apple App Store and will sell for US$10
There is also a New ProPrompter ProMag for 'in the lens' teleprompting that magnifiy your iPhone twice it's size for readability up to 5 metres (15 feet) away. I guess that depends on how many carrots you eat in a day!
See it in action HERE
TVP has a long history of working with Sony and XDCAM, with around 300 camcorders and decks already in use today.
Basingstoke, 19th April 2009 : Polish State Broadcaster, TVP has selected Sonys XDCAM HD422 format to migrate its news operation to HD. The deal will initially see Sony Professional supply 29 PDW-700 camcorders and fourteen PDW-HD1500 record decks to the Warsaw-based Polish broadcaster.
Read more on: Sonybiz.net
