I have been using the Sony EA50 this week on and off, it’s probably the busiest time in my schedule work wise and fitting in a video review is very tricky to say the least. My good friend Zulqar ...

The JVC KY 1900 was an industrial camera in fact it was one of the few cameras to be produced with a plastic orange body making it very distinctive, JVC brought this camera out during 1982. The KY-… ...

Under the Skin, a science-fiction arthouse film that just crossed the $1 million mark at the U.S. box-office, is being sold as a spooky erotic thriller featuring Scarlett Johansson as a sexy alien ...

Today Sony has issued a statement about all the potential picture problems people are discussing on the internet, its probably halted sales and when this happens a company has to act fast. Sony “ We ...

I keep getting numpties telling me that 4K 4:2:0 8bit footage does not translate to 4:4:4 10bit on an HD timeline, don’t take my word for it lets hear from renowned expert Barry Green… Barry “One ...

Complex is the key word…FCPX does not handle complex timelines, in other words if like me you edit a 53m program on a single timeline with greenscreen, graphics and plugins it’s only time before you ...

If you are editing in Premiere Pro CS6 and get a “Media Pending” after importing a file, look at the file structure to see if there is more than one MXF file in the folder. I waited over 10 minutes ...

Having been working in the video business since 1988 I have amassed a great amount of knowledge of both the kit and production values over the last 30 years.

Sometimes due to circumstances you have no choice but to record an interview in a room with a lot of echo. Crumple Pop are one of the few companies writing audio plugins for FCPX so I decided to ...

After ordering my Pegasus R6 12TB Thunderbolt Raid solution from the Apple store it arrived three days later. Firstly what they don’t tell you till you open the box is that this will self configure ...

Finally I get a chance to asses the Canon XF100 since I have just bought one. The camcorder has a lot of features packed into its small body and non more so than full broadcast CBR 50MB/s 4:2:2 (CB… ...

This is Sony’s idea of a user friendly 4K upgrade path… CBKZ-X70FX is the 4K Upgrade Option for PXW-X70. This option allows X70 to activate 4K(QFHD) XAVC Long GOP recording capability. … ...