NYC Production & Post News
HP decided its connection to creatives needed nurturing, and in new ways the company hasn’t tried before. Last week at annual Adobe Max, the company revealed just that, new plans and initiatives to better deliver their hardware to the world’s creative professionals. At the conference, HP announced Z Club, a program to offer creative professionals […]
These days, for those involved in professional music production and audio editing, your main tool of the trade is pretty obvious these days: a good and capable digital audio workstation (DAW). But if you’re checking out the market, possibly for an upgrade or whole new package, you face a similar situation to someone moving to […]
Okay, okay, so maybe that’s a bit much. But I really like the idea behind this Kickstarter project. Today, everyone’s very conscious that we’re at “peak oil”. Look at what you will – the dried out forests, encroaching oceans – but humans simply can’t act as if oil and coal don’t have consequences. We’re ready […]
On Friday, Feb 1 at BSC Expo in London, Panavision launched their new Millennium DXL2 8K Large Format camera. Sensor size: 40.96 x 21.60 mm (46.31 mm diagonal). No one at BSC Expo could have missed the significance of having most of the major cine manufacturers embracing the new, larger format, variously called Full Frame – Full Format – Large […]
Major iPhone assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry, better known as Foxconn Technology Group, said on Sunday that it plans to team up with premium camera maker RED Digital Cinema to make professional-quality and affordable film cameras for the general public, while expanding into the manufacture of semiconductors for displays and cameras. Those moves come as […]
“Game-changing” might be a dramatic term, but that’s what comes to mind when describing the new HP Z38c Curved display. You see, every so often, a new product comes along which makes us rethink the way we work and HP’s stunning new Z38c display happens to be one of them. I’ve had the opportunity to […]
Would you pay $2500 for a Super 8 camera? An odd question to ask now, as the glory days of Super 8 format are long gone. But some still pine for what the format can deliver visually, while long-term relevance is still film’s strong card. But how feasible is shooting in a format that still […]
If you asked me to define what a workstation is, I’d say heavy duty professional computers specifically designed to perform the most challenging jobs which usually boast the latest and greatest processors and GPUs. In addition, workstations undergo many hours of testing and certification to make them as hardy and reliable as possible and are […]
When we think about workstations for serious production and post work, HP’s line of Z Workstations immediately come to mind. And we’re not talking the huge desktop workhorses such as the towering Z840, but also HP’s highly esteemed line of ZBook Mobile Workstations which offer intense power in a mobile footprint and are great when […]
If you think about it, the summer months can be a bit like December for a certain sort of person. No, July or August are too hot these days to try to try to cool down with some image of a December chill in mind. Instead, realize that the gathering sweat on your brow signals that it’s time embrace the heat. Yes,for lovers of computer graphics it’s time to trek to the SIGGRAPH show, usually found on the West Coast…
