Category: BLOG

Christmas shootout with Philip Bloom

On a cold day earlier in December I Joined Philip Bloom, Suresh Kara, Joel Conder and Sarah Estela for Philips Christmas mini shootout .  The main aim of the shootout was to compare a bunch of large sensor cameras under typical shooting conditions. We did a range of tests including resolution, skew, skin...

Steve Jobs – 1955-2011

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your...

The 14 day time-lapse – in at the deep end!

I haven’t really been caught up in the whole time-lapse movement which has become increasingly popular with the introduction of DSLR’s into the video world, it’s not really something that’s ever interested me that much before although I’m not entirely sure why after all I have a passion for slow-mo...

Lion users report better performance from Adobe Premiere Pro

I’ve been writing quite a lot about the poor timeline performance issues when using Premiere Pro CS5 & CS5.5 on the Mac and with the thread about the subject on adobe’s forum now reaching over 4000 views it seems to be a very widespread issue. Since upgrading to Lion though...

Premiere’s laggy timeline – a breakthrough!

After over 130 posts on the Adobe Forums and quite a few people getting involved here on my blog I think we’ve finally had a breakthrough regarding the lag that a lot of us have been seeing when using the timeline in Premiere Pro. What’s been really confusing is why...

Final Cut Pro X released

Apple released it’s totally rewritten version of Final Cut Pro this week and I have to say that I don’t think I’ve seen a release from Apple that has been met with such disappointment and public dismay before. I’m not going to go in to too many details about the...