Back in January 2009, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails released 450GB of HD concert footage from the “Lights in the Sky” tour for fans to edit.
After 18 months, the Nine Inch Nails fan community have created “Another Version of the Truth” – a 3 disc release bringing together numerous editors, designers, and web programmers to create a professional digital film, followed by a physical release created by fans for fans.
Now, “thisoneisonus” has released their final project from this footage – a professionally mastered, color-corrected and authored Blu-Ray, which is available free, as a bittorrent download.
If you want to practise cutting concert footage, the original source footage is also still available here. Once our new server is officially commissioned in September, I’ll load the Victoria concert footage on for anyone that wants to practise.
Another iPhone 4 HD video – this time the topic is the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb which was produced by Hoptocopter Films.
It’s a different style of production from the Apple of My Eye piece that I posted about a couple of days ago, and a very impressive project to be produced using the camera on a smartphone.
A new site, iPhone4Filming has also appeared, to discuss tips and techniques for producing high quality video with the iPhone 4.
I hope we might see a few student productions with the iPhone 4 at BCIT this year!
Hate expensive, proprietary video cables as much as we do? Want to see Monster cables crying the blues when they can no longer sell a $6 cable for $75?
An industry coalition including Sony, Samsung, and LG have proposed a new cabling standard based on existing high-bandwidth technology. And the type of cable should look pretty familiar to most people…
HDBaseT
HDBaseT uses standard CAT5E/CAT6 Ethernet cables to transmit video, audio, data, and even power to audio/visual devices. If you have a home or office pre-wired for data, you can even use your existing cables.
About time. I was sort of wondering why it didn’t happen sooner – we all know that modern audio/video devices basically all communicate by digital signalling, so it makes sense to just use standard data cables…
The iPhone 4 isn’t released in Canada yet, however USC Cinematic Arts student Michael Koerbel has produced one of the first new shorts shot entirely using the new 720P HD camera on the iPhone 4.
Post-production editing was also done on the iPhone 4 with the iMovie app – with the entire project being completed in 48 hours.
Click the link below the video to see the full HD version!
“Apple of My Eye” – an iPhone 4 film – UPDATE: Behind the scenes footage included from Michael Koerbel on Vimeo.
The Television & Video Production faculty had an opportunity today to go and visit with Tim Lewis, the president of Proshow Vancouver.
Tim is a member of our broadcast advisory committee and offered us a chance to drop by and see what was new in the way of their mobile production vehicles, as well as some purpose-built equipment for doing mobile and event productions (something we’re keen to do more of!)
One of the most impressive things about seeing the Proshow operation is the attention to detail – a good model for students!
We’re going to try and get some students more involved with Proshow, and we are already working to train students in the types of skills that are required for live event production.
So back on June 3rd, a few TV faculty members had the opportunity to attend the Adobe CS5 launch event downtown at the Sheraton Wall Centre. A number of members of the Adobe After Effects team had travelled up from Seattle to attend the event, and to talk to users directly.
It’s a pretty rare event to be able to talk directly to the programmers and designers of a piece of software that plays such a pivotal role in the post-production industry.
We were thrilled that the team wanted to meet BCIT faculty and students to discuss Adobe’s products, and to find out how to even better work with the educational market to make the software even stronger for the needs of instructors and students alike. Today, we had that opportunity.
We spent a good 90 minutes talking with the team about After Effects and throwing out wishes and ideas. It’s really refreshing to put faces to such a great product. Even though Adobe is a vast company, it really speaks well for the pride their staff takes in their product that they’re willing to take time to reach out to customers directly.
The other side of this coin is that BCIT Broadcast will be upgrading all of our PCs and Macs to offer Adobe CS5 products for instructional and student use in the fall term. Once you play with Content Aware fill in Photoshop and the Roto Brush in After Effects, you’ll be hooked.
Oh yes, and I got an email about a contest that’s running right now – that can result in a free copy of Adobe CS5 Production Premium if you’re a student! You enter the contest and recut a scene with the trial version of Adobe Premiere. 3 Finalists will get a free educational Production Premium Package, with the winner also getting a trip to the festival in Utah.
