CamcorderInfo have posted a review on the new Sony HRD-SR1 tapeless HD camcorder. It records AVCHD (MPEG-4/H.264 based) format to an internal 30GB drive, which will apparently give you 4 hours of recording. Sounds great! I’m completely sick of buying, labelling and especially rewinding tapes – it feels so ridiculous – and while the computer based capture options are […]

Adobe keeps churning out apps and betas; the latest is a new lightweight audio editor called Soundbooth. I’ve done a detailed look at the beta for Create Digital Music, but here’s why visualists should be excited. First, of course, Adobe is building the app to try to court the Photoshop and Flash crowd to audio […]

Suddenly, that dual-booting Mac isn’t looking like such a value: Boot Camp Beta 1.1: VGA adapters, Mini-DVI adapters are not supported Reader Robotkid notes S-Video won’t work, either. So, in review, if you want to boot your new MacBook into Windows XP, all will be fine — unless you happen to need to connect video […]

Suddenly, that dual-booting Mac isn’t looking like such a value: Boot Camp Beta 1.1: VGA adapters, Mini-DVI adapters are not supported Reader Robotkid notes S-Video won’t work, either. So, in review, if you want to boot your new MacBook into Windows XP, all will be fine — unless you happen to need to connect video […]

Fantastical video blog No Fat Clips has just concluded Floria’s Day, showcasing 3 videos from Italian director Floria Sigismondi. She of muted colours, blown out highlights, unstable camera and obsessive cutting. DeK has hooked up 3 videos I hadn’t encountered before, but left out the more obvious ones, which you should definitely check out for […]

Fantastical video blog No Fat Clips has just concluded Floria’s Day, showcasing 3 videos from Italian director Floria Sigismondi. She of muted colours, blown out highlights, unstable camera and obsessive cutting. DeK has hooked up 3 videos I hadn’t encountered before, but left out the more obvious ones, which you should definitely check out for […]

Online music making with open source tools. Hook up some phones and controls and lock yourself in a cage, if you like, as one of the core developers did. Imagine a massively multiplayer music studio, connected worldwide over the Internet. Log in, and everyone sees a set of synths, effects, sequencers, or other custom patches. […]

For custom 3D work or GPU-native processing of images and videos, a working knowledge of coding shaders is essential. Custom shaders are widely supported in tools like Max/MSP/Jitter, Processing (with some work), Java coding, Pd/GEM, Quartz Composer, and even many other video and 3D apps. In Jitter, for instance, you can basically add some custom […]

There’s nothing like the occasional reminder that commercial effects pros get to do stuff we can’t. Today’s example: a real-life Katamari Damacy, starting with a single person (ouch) and rolling through a city, courtesy the Travelers Insurance group. The results are stunningly realistic, particularly at the beginning: there’s a sense of real physicality to it, […]