Last Friday was my first opportunity to use the Litepanels’ Sola ENGs on set. They worked well and definitely far better than relying on my Omni Lights + CTB filters for backdrop lights.
The light from the Sola ENGs is easy to control. The two were set to flood and full power, their [...]
![L to R: Sola ENG set to flood = f/4; Sola set to mid-point [similar to usable are of Omni + CTB] = f/4.5; Sola set to spot = f/6.3.](http://www.jonroemer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/sola_eng-88x36.jpg "sola_eng"){kind=small}
I’m running some quick tests today on Litepanels Sola ENG lights to see if I can use them to replace my sixteen year old Lowel Omni lights. I have used two of the Omnis on video projects with CTB filters to convert them to daylight when I have needed something beyond [...]
It appears that spring 2012 has the potential to be a perfect storm. On the dslr front both Nikon and Canon are releasing updates to their pro lines. On the video front, for Canon at least, there are options like the C300. Throw into the mix a possible long overdue update to the Mac Pro…
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When You Find Me is a film by Bryce Dallas Howard and is the culmination of Canon’s Project Imagin8ion which featured and was overseen by her father, director Ron Howard. The gist of the project was a competition which selected eight photos to use as inspiration for a short film.
As a professional [...]
Both JonRoemer.com and Learning to See have gotten recent updates.
JonRoemer.com has a new home page slideshow featuring recent people shots. The People galleries have been reduced from four to three with Portraits I getting a major overhaul and Portraits III a refresh. The Portraits – [...]
Philadelphia Camera Operator Kevin Ritchie, one of the lucky few to get a Canon C300 in the first shipment, has provided raw c-log footage in ProRes HQ so that others can try their hand at grading it. Kevin photographed the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philly to test out his camera.
Canon’s [...]
Andy Shipsides at AbelCine has posted a great workflow primer on ingesting C300 MXF footage into popular NLEs:
How to Import C300 Footage in Avid, FCP X and Premiere
Update – 2/14/12: Since I wrote the above Canon has provided two plugins, one for each version of Final Cut Pro. They facilitate ingestion [...]
Apple updated Final Cut Pro X to 10.0.3 this morning adding multicam and a host of other features. One less obvious one is the creation of time-lapses within FCP X. For an explanation of how to do this watch the Learn more about Multicam video on Apple’s FCP X software update page. It’s [...]
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