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To P2 or not P2, that is the question…
Written by David Tames on April 30, 2006
Filed Under Camera, Editing, Filmmaking, Interviews
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I discuss Panasonic’s P2 technology and workflow in Part 2 of my article about the Panasonic AG-HVX200 camera that appears in the most recent issue of New England Film. As part of my research for the article I put together a music video shoot using P2 workflow and spoke with several filmmakers...  Continue Reading...

A conversation with John Naylor, Director of Grass Valley’s Infinity Camcorder Program
Written by David Tames on April 28, 2006
Filed Under Camera, Filmmaking, High Definition
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I was very impressed by many of the design decisions made by the designers of Grass Valley’s Infinity professional 2/3″ 3-CCD ENG camcorder. At the NAB2006 show I caught up with John Naylor and talked with him about the camera. Naylor is the Director of the Infinity Program, with...  Continue Reading...

A conversation with Red Digital Cinema’s Ted Schilowitz
Written by David Tames on April 27, 2006
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At NAB this week there was a lot of buzz on the show floor about the Red camera currently in development. I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Ted Schilowitz about Red. Before joining Red he was a Product Manger at AJA Video Systems and part of the team that created video capture...  Continue Reading...

Not all RAIDs are created equal
Written by David Tames on April 20, 2006
Filed Under Editing, Filmmaking, General
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I did not emphasize a very important aspect of my discussion of media storage expansion options: a critical aspect of setting up a software RAID array is the utility you use to set up the RAID, and SoftRAID is a better option than Apple’s Disk Utility. Continue Reading…  Read More →

Media storage expansion options for the Power Mac G5
Written by David Tames on April 15, 2006
Filed Under Editing, Filmmaking, General
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Recently I needed to add more video storage to my G5 editing system and I faced several options, below are the three options I considered. Apple would love to have you buy their XServe RAID, and it’s a beautiful, high performance box, but it’s overkill for the indie filmmakers and...  Continue Reading...

Sony HVR-A1U Performance in Low Light
Written by David Tames on April 12, 2006
Filed Under Camera, Filmmaking, Lighting
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As a follow-up to my previous writings on the HVR-A1U, here’s a series of video frames from “Boston Haunted” (a 48 Hour Film Project film I worked on this past weekend). The frames taken from the video demonstrate the good and bad of the low-light performance of the Sony HVR-A1U...  Continue Reading...

Remembering John Marshall Premiers at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Written by David Tames on April 5, 2006
Filed Under Documentary, Editing, Events & Screenings, Filmmakers, Films
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After a very intense sixteen day editing schedule, Alice Apley and I, with the help of assistant editors Cristina Bauer, Sharon Perpignani, and Tamar Skowronski, have completed editing Remembering John Marshall. It premiers tonight at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as part of Documentary Educational...  Continue Reading...