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SCRATCH Next-Thing™ – NAB 2012 preview

POSTED ON SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012 AT 5:18 PM BY MARK L. PEDERSON

Watch this demo

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QTAKE 3D Control is now available on App Store

POSTED ON TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012 AT 5:45 PM BY MARK L. PEDERSON

Bad ass little app to control QTake HD Advanced Video Assist with your iPhone!
INSTRUCTIONS
- Start QTAKE HD on your Mac
- Enable REMOTE CONTROL Button in FILE Room > REMOTE Menu
- Start QTAKE 3D on your iPhone
- Make sure iPhone is on the same network as QTAKE HD system.
- Select QTAKE Server from the list on QTAKE Page
- If UDP connection is possible, it will take you to HIT Page
- Use Sliders in HIT Page to adjust post-convergence for each VIEW
- Pinch Sliders to adjust scale (precision)
- Double Tap Slider to Reset HIT
- Two finger Tap to Lock the Slider
- Use PLUS 3D Page to Control PLUS 3D Mode and Output
Get it HERE
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Storify for iPad: Make The News By Hand

POSTED ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012 AT 7:57 AM BY MARK L. PEDERSON

Wow. I think this is mad cool. What a perfect tool for covering NAB 2012!
I love that you can embed your Storify story – did a quick private test in a journal post here on The OFFHOLLYWOOD Reporter and it works great. I’ll give it a full whirl tonight to create a post.

In depth article on ReadWriteWeb

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Engag.io – 1 Inbox to Rule Them All

POSTED ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012 AT 10:15 PM BY MARK L. PEDERSON

Just signed up and started messing around with Engag.io which launched today.  It’s pretty slick. Turns your social media interactions into a Gmail-like inbox. It features a UI that is going to be copied and cloned by many – because it really is that good.

Check out the article on ReadWriteWeb

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VLC 2.0 goes live with new Mac UI, Blu-ray, pro video

POSTED ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2012 AT 4:46 PM BY MARK L. PEDERSON

VideoLAN on Saturday posted one of its largest updates yet in the finished version of VLC 2.0.

Pros get some of the broadest additions, including the addition of Apple’s ProRes 4:2:2 format as well as 4:4:4:4 encoding and AVC/Intra clips. Imagery in JPEG-2000 and DNxHD/VC-3 can now play in 10-bit mode, where OpenGL shader support also works. Both regular and HD SDI cards can now work as input for pro video editors using Linux, and a faster Dirac/VC-2 encoder improves capture time.

Read more: http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/18/vlc.20.media.player.ships/#ixzz1mlwnJKV1

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Automate your Dropbox

POSTED ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012 AT 7:26 AM BY MARK L. PEDERSON

Dropbox Automator has gotten a major update this week, adding a Google+/Picasa uploader, support for sending files to Box.net and to Amazon’s Kindle. The service now lets users restrict access to just one folder in Dropbox.

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Foolcat & Foolmeta for R3D reports

POSTED ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012 AT 6:46 PM BY MARK L. PEDERSON

- foolcat lets you create rich HTML and pdf catalog of R3D clips with image thumbnails and extensive metadata / RMD informations (supports RED One, EPIC and Scarlet)

- foolmeta (included within foolcat interface) lets you add custom user metadatas (Project, Scene, Shot, Take, Notes, Rating, Color Label, Circled take etc) into RMD sidecar files, and is 100% compatible with REDCINE-X metadatas. You can add them in batch to a whole folder and also on a clip by clip basis.

foolmeta is a free tool. foolcat works with up to 5 clips per catalog in demo mode and requires a 19 USD license to unlock.

A LOT of metadatas are displayed in a compact space in the HTML catalogs (including HDRx values, camera firmware, color curves, alchemy settings, linked audio info etc)…

You can check a demo catalog, here :
http://foolcolor.net/foolcat_example/index.html

Download the latest version (includes foolmeta) from the website : http://foolcolor.net/foolcat

A much needed little app and very well done IMO!

Asset management and meta-data reporting is a topic very near and dear to my heart – so I’m very happy that Mikael created this tool.

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Producer iPad and iPhone

POSTED ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012 AT 11:05 PM BY MARK L. PEDERSON

Here’s a cool little app for small productions from True Hero Studios.

 

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SGO Mistika moves into New York City’s OFFHOLLYWOOD hosting the very first Mistika 4K system on the East Coast

POSTED ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2011 AT 8:56 PM BY MARK L. PEDERSON

“We’ve evaluated every tool in the marketplace, and some that haven’t even been released yet, and there is nothing even close to Mistika’s 3D toolset…SGO’s willingness and enthusiasm to collaborate in addition to its open and configurable architecture, set the stage for the start of an exciting strategic relationship.”
Mark L. Pederson, CTO/ Co-Founder, OFFHOLLYWOOD

New York, USA, 1 June, 2011 – SGO announces today the sale of the very first Mistika 4K system  in the US East Coast at New York-based OFFHOLLYWOOD.   Leading innovators in 4K, 3D acquisition and post production services,  OFFHOLLYWOOD chose Mistika as its system of choice after careful examination of all the current systems in the market to date.   Mistika’s highly developed toolset and workflow compatibility with RED Epic and Element Technica’s (ET) ATOM 3D rigs, blatantly outshine the competition and play a crucial and advantageous role in  enabling OFFHOLLYWOOD to provide first-rate Stereo 3D production services.

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QTVR and MOCO integration coming to QTAKE

POSTED ON TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011 AT 8:15 AM BY MARK L. PEDERSON

Imagine the possibilities if you could ….

1) load a QTVR (Quicktime Virtual Reality) file into QTake Video Assist.
2) control the QTVR using moco data from motion control rig

Realtime compositing with virtual reality quicktimes – controlled by moco (motion control) meta-data!

coming soon ….

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