Comments on: Photos in motion; DNG sprouts wheels

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:28:48 +0000

“this may motivate me to try applying Lens Blur as a Smart Filter on video using Photoshop Extended.”
Dude, I bet I could hook you up with a good deal on After Effects. I know people.
I hear it’s sort of like Photoshop for video.

By: sbg

sbg — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:33:06 +0000

I hate to break this to you, but no professional video or film shooter uses auto-focus. I this case though, your comment may be right on because the extreme compression these cameras use makes them unusable for anything beyond amateur home movies.
Hopefully these companies will pay attention to the market and move towards a RAW format like RED has.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:16:35 +0000

Re: Tilt/shift effect
Reid states in a comment on his site that he used FCP and gives a brief description of how to do it.
Now I don’t use the Adobe video products (strictly PS and definitely not FCP!) but surely one could import video file into PS3 Extended as frames and run the lens blur filter using an alpha channel with a reflected gradient to determine where (and amount) of blur.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:29:38 +0000

very interesting about Canon and Nikon's latest cameras and their video capture abilities. However, my money is on Jim Jannard and the crew at Red to redefine the digital still camera. They are in the first stages of completely changing the whole technical game in the movie industry and have declared their intentions for the stills industry. http://www.red.com/ Take a look at the recently announced 3K Scarlet and imagine that going head to head against the Canon 5D MkII! Then read a little of this thread to start getting an idea about what might come to be: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=18710

By: JonPad

JonPad — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:59:15 +0000

The D90 is on my wish list, when I go see Santa.
And, holy cow, Finn is cute.

By: Barry Pearson

Barry Pearson — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:31:24 +0000

In April, Adobe and other announced they were developing a new specification “CinemaDNG” to become a standard cinema raw file format.
This announcement by Ikonoskop appears to be based on the current DNG!
What progress is being made on CinemaDNG? Will current DNG be a proper subset of the new format, enabling stills to be processed as normal DNG files?
(Does anyone actually know?)

By: Kent C.

Kent C. — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:55:55 +0000

Tilt shift video!… you’ve got the coolest links John. Thanks.