Posts Tagged ‘h.264’

With Canon’s announcement of its new XC10 cam, they unveil a new 4K-capable codec to go with it (and the upcoming C300 Mark II): XF-AVC. [adrotate group="6"] It’s an interesting gambit: offer a Canon-branded alternative to the new H.265 4K codec and thus deprive a…

Cinemartin sent us their announcement of their new video noise reduction called Cinemartin Denoiser, a professional video denoiser standalone software for Windows. If you've ever shot with a higher ISO or in a dark situation and have thought your shot was ruined because there was…

Hopefully you've seen the new sponsor Cinemartin in the ads section - we appreciate them joining the planet5D family. Cinemartin just announced the newest version of their video conversion tool for Windows (no mac version - sorry) called Cinec 3.x [adrotate group="6"] you can read…

It takes your breath away, the first time you use Magic Lantern's "software add-on". That's what ML calls it. I call it "Magic Window". No longer is your video an approximation of what you filmed. It's like you're looking through a window at what you…

This was a bit of a surprise back at NAB 2013 and we were going to post it, but then time slipped away and we forgot... but it is still something that hasn't been widely reported and you should know! The guys at Teradek are…

[adrotate group="6"] [adrotate group="9"] Proxy Module - RED This is important, because RED lost a lot of business to Alexa and other manufacturers because it did not incorporate Prores or DN x HD (Avid) codecs into it's camera. Anyone shooting straight to broadcast or with…

Now this is interesting and potentially important to everyone shooting with HDSLRs – mpeg has released a new H.265 draft specification which will include new higher quality video with lower bit rates. I won't pretend to be a compression expert, but it is curious that…