Here’s a behind the scenes look at the making of a Rip Curl surf commercial made using 52 cameras. Timeslice seems to have the bullet-time technique down to a science.
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Final Cut Plugin for easier H.264 workflow
This new plugin will allow Final Cut to automatically convert H.264 files (from Canon cameras at least) into the ProRes codec without any extra work. There are a bunch of other useful things the update does. Read more about it here.
Canon Pixma: Bringing Colour to Life
For anyone who may not have seen this yet, it is incredible; give it a watch. This project is by Dentsu London, who is also responsible for the recent “Making Future Magic: iPad light painting” which was also a great watch. Linden Gledhill, the artist behind the idea, has a great Flickr page with some mind-blowing stills of the project as well. The first two videos are final products that helped promote the new Canon Pixma line of printers. The third is a look behind the scenes.
Fluorescent Lighting
Just want to point this out: Fluorescent lights flicker at around 50Hz (50 flashes per second). This has a weird effect on cameras; if your shutter speed is above 1/50th, you will capture the flicker of the light. That is what happened to this video.
Push It A Stop 