That reminds me that i have a bunch of new stuff to add to the website, i will do that tomorrow.

Just finished up the artwork for a donkeyfest tournament that Hustler™ Casino LA is going to be doing this November. Will post the artwork once the coins are finished.

Just wanted to post that I lost my steady freelance gig recently and am on the hunt for some more good work to jump on.

If you know of anything or have any work, give me a call, and I can knock it out!

apple says that expresscard users were in single digits. ok, i can go with that. let’s split it at 5%. how much money does that 5% give apple per capita vs. the other 95%?

great.

SD slot only on 15”. really? fail. why is the whole macbook pro line turning into a consumer line?

the 15” has always been the workhorse machine for working on the road. the 17” is way too big to lug around.

apple is aware that new cameras are using express size media, no?

so much for plugging my ioHD in and being able to capture to my raid that goes in the express slot.

thanks apple.

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Recently, I was asked to help out a friend figure out some issues with the Canon HF11.

I am not going to really review the camera here, other than it is pretty cheap and does do some amazing pictures for what it is as long as you have plenty of light with it.

So anyways, back to my problems with this camera. This camera is being used to shoot stock footage, and he had purchased it and was delivering 10 second clips and pretty much was having zero trouble with it. I borrowed it to shoot some clips when i was out in the desert, and wanted to see how it would handle some things etc.

This camera shoots 1080p over 60i, which is not the end of the world, but not ideal for me. The stock house i have been talking to wants 1080p24, and i would rather shoot in that format for many reasons. I have made it pretty clear to most people that i hate interlacing!

So going thru the workflow and coming up with a good solid system to work by with this camera was my purpose here. Well, the main problem is that Canon chose to do some quirky things to me on this camera.

Issue #1:
Canon chose to have the video clips start over on numbering at zero each time you format the card. Yeah! that adds an extra step to the workflow to rename each clip to be unique.

Issue #2:
1080p60i. Canon chose to be lame here. The main problem is that they implemented non-standard cadence. Each time you start a clip, it picks up where the last clip stopped, rather than starting up with the same pattern. For example, PPPII(P=progressive, I=Interlaced). The last card that i shot had a mix of clips that used:
PPPII
PPIIP
PIIPP
IIPPP
IPPPI

If each clip started and used PPPII or ANY of the other ways, but only 1 of them, then all clips could be batched thru cinema tools fairly quickly and have the pulldown removed. No recompression needed, just a new file output.

Rather, you have to go thru each clip and figure out the cadence. That sucks.

So the only practical way to deal with the reverse telecine is thru compressor. You use the high quality frame controls to remove the reverse telecine, and it works beautifully, but it does do it a bit slower and it is recompressing. Lucky that proRes can handle the recompression.

i created a droplet that i drop all clips on, and it handles it in the background for me thru compressor.

I wrote to canon tech support and after quite a few emails of them blaming apple and fcp for causing it, they finally agreed that it is a consumer camera and the 24p is just to make it feel like cinema, rather than being 24p.

I don’t have any test footage from the hf20, but i assume that it handles it the same.

What i am curious to see is the new HV40. They claim Native 24p recording, but i wonder if it truly will be native or over 60i with non-standard cadence.

So it is not the end of the world, but not ideal either, so just a heads up with all these canon prosumer cameras.

Well, it looks like i am headed back to Norway coming up. I am planning a trip from 4-6 weeks and will be working at MediaFront for the time that i am there.

We have a lot to catch up on and talk about, so it will be really good to be back home again.

I will post more when i know more.

i just want to state that interlacing in video is the worst thing in the world.

if i never have to see or deal with it again, would be a blessing.