It looks like a 16mm film camera, but it's a custom-designed housing that includes a Silicon Imaging SI-2K Mini Camera Head and an Apple Mac Mini. The camera head produces digital cinema class 2048x1152 resolution. This SI-2K Mini camera head has been used as a second...
How many times have you seen these kinds of shots in movies? A lot! But the difference is that this is the real thing. Skybox Imaging builds and launches small satellites to shoot video of earth. They claim the above video is the world’s first commercial,...
What if you translated each frame of the movie into a stick-figure animation that condensed the film to 60 seconds. 1A4 Studio has done it. They call it a Speed Run animation. Die Hard the movie has rarely been seen this way. 1A4 Studio has condensed a number of other...
80,000 people who attended the Super Bowl last night became individual pixels in astadium sized video screen. As they entered the stadium, they were given a black knitted hat and instrcutiosn to put the hat on their head with the halftime show began. Each hat included...
With Google Earth you can fly from outer space right into your own neighborhood. You've seen this in lots of high-end videos and movies. Chances are you've already played with this software. If not, visit Google Earth, download the free version and test it out. Here...
This video shows you how. While you can handhold a camera from a moving car, that requires two people - driver and shooter. And for some shots it's just not possible to hand hold. Mounting the camera on a car used to require some expensive hardware, but now it's a lot...
Some cameras and camcorders have both an adjustable ISO setting and a Gain setting. Which one should you use or should you use both? There are differences between the two settings, but for all practical purposes, they control the same aspect of video. You may not...
Coco in Oscar de la Renta (Image source: From Me To You. Link removed) We've come a long way from the animated GIFS which once plagued the web. Cinemagraphs are a big step up. The term was coined by fashion photographers Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck. They used the...
Formerly the America's Cup sailing competition was held 20 - 30 miles offshore so few could see it. TV networks were not that interested in covering it. Today's sailing racers are catamarans which are much faster than single monohulls. This is part of a movement to...
What is metadata? Basically, it’s data about data. You may be familiar with meta tags used for web pages. Meta tags are inserted between the head tags which are at the very top of a web page. The information in this head area of your web pages is not seen by those...
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