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Since Apple added HEVC 10-bit 4:2:2 to Compressor, we thought we'd look into how it impacts memory pressure on our M1 Max MacBook Pro with 32GB RAM. For the test, all apps were closed except for Final Cut Pro, Compressor and the Activity Monitor. We transcoded a one-minute ProRes RAW clip with minimal noise reduction... Continue Reading →
One of the twenty-eight classes I teach each week in Ho Chi Minh City. I consider myself lucky, since many foreigners had to leave the country because of tightened restrictions on visas or loss of employment opportunities, including a large community of Ukranians.
For video editing, the MacBook Pro has virtually the same performance as the desktop, plus you get the great keyboard and the best display found on any laptop on the market today. https://youtu.be/V8lc3ORcFL4
This comment by a frustrated reader over at DPReview that we just came across illustrates why we no longer make recommendations for those wanting to use a hybrid camera for both stills photography and video. There are just too many features, like burst rates, pixel shift, auto bracketing, EVF resolution, stills RAW formats and dozens... Continue Reading →
Not only does Faruk Korkmaz set the bar when it comes to gorgeous looking reviews, he also addresses our most pressing concern from the very start - which is how fast the computer can transcode footage to HEVC 10-bit in Apple Compressor. As it turns out, the Mac Studio finished the job around 80% faster... Continue Reading →
Last year, we reached out to Atomos to ask why they didn’t upload more HDR content to their YouTube channel and they replied that not all projects are suited to HDR. Which is patently false: the video doesn’t exist whose image quality cannot be dramatically improved by mastering and uploading to YouTube in HDR.
It's there, but it's much less pronounced than it was on the Asus ProArt PA32UCX and as usual, it looks worse from an angle than when viewed head-on.
It's easy to get bogged down when comparing all the features offered by Canon's cameras but the task becomes much simpler when approaching the question purely from the perspective of HDR, for which the camera must meet a minimum of three criteria: low noise, thirteen stops of dynamic range and offer raw recording (either internally... Continue Reading →
In his review of the Ronin 4D, Caleb Pike finds the colors remarkably similar to those of the Sony a7s III.
Frequent Blackmagic forum contributor John Brawley never tires of calling colleagues in the film industry shills and accusing RED of being unethical, but the DP prefers to downplay his own role as official brand ambassador for a scandal-ridden conglomerate guilty of one of the worst cases of financial corruption Japan has ever known. How is... Continue Reading →
LG Display announced a breakthrough in OLED TV technology set to begin production this year and which they are calling OLED.EX. According to the Korean manufacturer, deuterium compounds together with personalized algorithms that learn individual viewing patterns to more efficiently control the display’s energy input will enable an increase in brightness by as much as... Continue Reading →
The very first portable SSD drive we've ever owned, the Samsung X5, is crazy fast. It also gets quite toasty - even when unmounted. It took just three minutes to copy a 240GB folder of ProRes 4444 clips and some random screen grabs from our 16" M1 Max MacBook Pro to the X5 and a... Continue Reading →
If you leave the house, walk around and point your camera anywhere, it's all but impossible not to encounter luminance values measuring in the hundreds or even thousands of nits. But turn on the TV and watch a Dolby Vision program on Netflix and 99% of the time, it seems like there aren't any luminance... Continue Reading →
“Although there is no official standard regarding the dynamic range definition of HDR, it is generally recognized that a lower threshold for HDR is 13 stops or 8000:1, advancing via 14 stops or 16,000:1 to the current de facto ‘standard’ of 15 stops or 32,000:1. Most of the latest generation of digital motion picture cameras... Continue Reading →
Analyst Bob O’Brien, assessing his predictions for the display industry for 2021, admits he greatly miscalculated MicroLED TV shipments for the year, writing, “We were wrong in predicting that the lowest priced MicroLED models would be offered at less than $100,000 in 2021, and even with a very low unit forecast, we overestimated TV shipments... Continue Reading →
Forget about proper video levels, color gamuts and bit depth and consider the lowly hot shoe cover protector cap for a moment. Here's how we keep from losing that little bugger when attaching the Rode Wireless GO!
A feature that enables using details from previously uploaded videos has just been added to YouTube, promising to save many of us a lot of time and aggravation. When uploading a video, a message that reads 'reuse details' will appear in the upper right corner. You'll then be prompted to select one of your previously... Continue Reading →
We've currently got a 2019 16" MacBook Pro with 2.3 GHz 8-core Intel i9 processor, 32GB memory, 1TB SSD and AMD Radeon Pro 5500M and our machine just crawls. It took 1 hour 52 minutes to transcode a 4 minute 50 second ProRes RAW HQ clip to HEVC 10-bit in Apple Compressor for delivery to... Continue Reading →
MacRumors is reporting that some 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro owners have complained of crashes when watching HDR YouTube videos. Watching an HDR YouTube video in Safari then scrolling through comments resulted in a kernel error, according to one reader. Apparently, watching YouTube in full screen and then exiting full screen mode can also cause... Continue Reading →
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