Sony’s consumer division has just announced three cameras with APS-C sensors and removable lenses (E-Mount), two of which look like pocket-sized DSLR cameras, and the third which looks like a Handicam, is under development. The first two are the models NEX-5 and NEX-3, and the Handicam-type model is visible in the video you’ll see ahead.
Sony consumer announces APS-C camcorders with removable lenses
Live webinar on June 8th: How to prepare pristine mobile & web video
Pristine HD Web Video Creation: computers + mobile video for Blackberry, iPad/iPhone + Google/Android
On June 8th, live on your computer, you’ll learn:
- How to create a single pristine, optimized video file for the web, which is playable both with a Flash player (even on Windows, without QuickTime installed), as well as on an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry multimedia models, and Google/Android phones.
- How to determine the ideal bit rate for any particular video, quickly and easily: You’ll learn both the tool and the technique.
- HTML5, H.264, and Flash: what you need to know about the present and the future.
- When (and when not) to de-interlace your material, and at what step in your workflow.
- Inexpensive software & hardware tools that improve quality and save time when you encode for the web, or various other SD and HD devices.
- Legal and practical reasons why you are sometimes better off using your own web server, rather than certain popular free web streaming services like YouTube and Vimeo.
- Discounts for all attendees on software, and on flat-rate web hosting with unlimited bandwidth.About this live webinar:
- Date: June 8th, 2010
- Languages & Times: This webinar will be available in two different languages on the same day:
11:00 am USA Eastern Daylight Savings Time in Castilian/En castellano a las 11:00 am, hora ajustada del este de los Estados Unidos (Haz clic aquí vera ver la fecha/hora local en tu zona.)
1:00 pm USA Eastern Daylight Savings Time in English (Click here to see your local date/time.)
- Duration: ±90 minutes including questions and answers.
- Price: US$89 or US$79 with early bird special. Save US$10 by registering today!
- Registration/Payment: Registration and payment is to ProVideo Coalition LLC, via this link.
Listen to Allan Tépper’s radio program TecnoTur, now available in both Castilian and English, free via iTunes or at TecnoTur.us.
Tépper’s remedy for Flash-lovers who are still in denial
Decompress and come to grips with reality in 4 easy steps.
I have been quite surprised about the comments sent to me by Flash-lovers who are still in denial, of which a few have been public on the ProVideo Coalition website, and many more have been private, sometimes desperate sounding e-mails. In the past, people used to say that some Mac-lovers were religious fanatics. I now realize that some Flash-lovers are perhaps even more devoted religious fanatics. Some of these Flash religious fanatics have made terrible criticisms about Steve Jobs and Apple regarding their position about Flash, despite both Google and Microsoft backing that position. The purpose of this article is to help Flash religious fanatics who are still in denial to come to grips with reality and get through their “mourning” period as gracefully as possible. Read the rest here…
The exodus from Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere CS5 has begun
Adobe’s power and market share increases while Flash wanes
On April 5th, 2010, I published the article Will Adobe’s new Mercury technology provoke a sudden exodus from Final Cut Pro to CS5?. At that point, the title was still a question. Since then, NAB 2010 came and went without a word from Apple regarding the potential future of Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Studio. Apple’s complete silence on this topic seems to indicate that Apple is much more focused on the consumer market, especially their mobile devices, and no longer on professional applications and hardware. This is further revealed by Apple’s continuing release of MacBookPro 13” and 15” models without ExpressCard34 slots, which is now offered exclusively in the 17” model… and by the complete lack of direct eSATA ports on any Apple laptop. In the meantime, Adobe has already shipped Premiere CS5 for both Mac and Windows. As stated previously, CS5’s Mercury engine can handle multi-layers of H.264 raw footage in real time very gracefully. (CS4 can also do that, although not nearly so gracefully.) Based upon private e-mails and conversations with editors yesterday, the exodus from Apple’s Final Cut Pro to Adobe’s Premiere CS5 for many began yesterday. Read the rest here…
Microsoft diplomatically backs Apple & Google’s position, favoring HTML5 and H.264
From my perspective, the issue began back in 2008, when I was inspired to write an article called Encoding web video in the age of the iPhone. Now, the situation has become as suspenseful as the final chapters of a Latin American telenovela. On April 5th, 2010, I published Tépper is glad that the iPad doesn’t support Flash. During the last week of April, Steve Jobs publishes his open letter about why he has disallowed Adobe’s Flash on all of Apple’s mobile devices, including iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Then Adobe refutes Steve Jobs’ statements in a video interview with the Wall Street Journal. Now, Microsoft diplomatically backs Apple’s and Google’s position with a blogpost by the Internet Explorer manager, stating that the future is indeed HTML5 and H.264, which has been my position since my original 2008 article. Ahead you’ll find links to all of the mentioned incidents.
Adobe CEO rebuts Steve Jobs’ Flash letter in WSJ video interview
As many of ProVideo Coalition readers read yesterday, Steve Jobs published his open letter regarding Adobe’s Flash. Now, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen rebuts Steve Jobs’ letter in a video inverview with the Wall Street Journal. Ahead you’ll find a link to Steve Jobs’ open letter, to my article, and to the rebuttal interview from Adobe.
Steve Jobs’ open letter regarding Flash
I thank ProVideo Coalition reader WSmith for pointing out to me that Steve Jobs has published his open letter regarding Adobe’s Flash. WSmith wrote his comment in my article called Tépper is glad that the iPad doesn’t support Flash. I am glad to know that WSmith saw that article, and at this point, I don’t know whether Steve Jobs did too. Ahead you’ll find a link to Steve Jobs’ open letter, and to my article.
TecnoTur’s new English audio channel is live in iTunes
First English episode includes the NewTek TCXD300 and a conversation with Elements Post in Connecticut, USA
We are glad to announce that TecnoTur’s new English-language audio channel has joined the original Castilian-language one. Now, many other interested people —even those who don’t speak Castilian— are able to become TecnoTuristas too, as well as being guests on the TecnoTur program. The TecnoTur program will continue to invite industry professionals from throughout the planet to be interviewed. Now, with the English channel, TecnoTur will expand both its number of listeners as well as its scope of interviewees. As of today, TecnoTur’s new English channel is live on the iTunes store, and as with the original Castilian channel, listeners may subscribe —free of charge— to receive new episodes automatically in the iTunes application. It is also possible to listen to an individual episode without subscribing, or to subscribe to the RSS feed using other applications. The first English episode includes: (Read the rest here…)
Panasonic announces AG-HMC80, the HMC40′s big sister
Shoulder mounted, standard XLR inputs, manual focus ring are among the improvements
At NAB 2010, Panasonic announced the AG-HMC80, a bigger sister of the AG-HMC40, whose main improvements include a shoulder-mount shape/size, standard XLR inputs (as opposed to a US$300 option with the HMC40), and a manual focus ring (not available with the HMC40). Many ProVideo Coalition readers will already be familiar with Adam Wilt’s extensive review on the HMC40, and at NAB, Panasonic officials said that the HMC80’s optics, sensor, and recording modes are the same as with the HMC40. In this preview article, I’ll go into other differences between the HMC80 and its little sister, its European cousin, price, competition, and potential applications. (Read the rest here…)
Panasonic AVCCAM’s incomplete native progressive recording modes
Beware of AVCCAM’s bandwidth ripoff in certain modes!
I applaud the fact that Panasonic made the 720p23.976 recording nativein many of their AVCCAM cameras. (AVCCAM is Panasonic’s brand for AVCHD professional.) However, I am concerned about the fact that they did this in a very incomplete way. In this article, I’ll cover the advantages of native progressive recording, how Panasonic and other brands have done a complete job in other cameras, and why there are missing certain native progressive recording modes in current AVCCAM models. (Read the rest here…)
