Blackmagic Camera now takes direction from your wrist. Great for shaky rigs, high mounts, and anyone tired of people poking the rig with their dirty fingers.
For an eternity, it seemed, Blackmagic Design (BM for short) refused to support the import of Apple's ProRes RAW format into their flagship app DaVinci Resolve (DR for short).
iPhones just levelled-up: Final Cut Camera 2.0 adds ProRes RAW, genlock, open-gate, Apple Log 2, timecode and multicam workflow tools – free update arriving later in September.
It's almost 10 years since Austin Reza shot a film for Bentley's luxury cars: on an iPhone 5S. At the time, it was still in stylish black and white and with high contrasts - no doubt also to prevent artefacts from becoming too obvious. Back in 2011, Park Chan-wook and Park
Chan-kyong from South Korea even shot the fantasy horror "Night Fishing" on an iPhone 4 in colour and won a Golden Bear for the best short film. Apple itself, on the other hand, has generally shot its advertising films on cameras such as the Arri Alexa.
3D camera tracking, also known as "match moving" in the professional scene, is now offered by every better software for video editing or 3D. But when we compared a few such popular 3D trackers in DP 18:01, SynthEyes was already our high-end reference for good reason.
... is the one you have with you. And what does everyone have in their pocket these days? Sure, a mobile phone. But can an app compete with a professional light meter? We did the maths. And aren't light meters terribly old-school? Not really for cameramfolks on a film set - except perhaps for solo entertainers on YouTube.
It's been some time since we discussed the sense (and nonsense) of using iPhones and iPads on set. In the meantime, these devices are not only several generations further along in their development, but have also become indispensable on set. Whether as a production planner, shot list, weather forecast, digital clapperboard, viewfinder or extended calculator, there are countless ways to use the iPhone and/or iPad on set to make life a little easier. - by Andreas Zerr
Sand Mountain Studios developed a small app intended to allow users to record slow-motion videos with the iPhone 4S or iPad 3. This is done in 720p at 60 frames per second, with playback at half speed intended to create the desired slow-motion effect. A demo is offered free of charge, and the full version is available through iTunes for EUR 1.59.
As of today, IDC has disclosed new figures for the first quarter of 2012 regarding smartphones sold worldwide and the operating systems they contained. Of a total 152.3 million devices shipped worldwide, Android is clearly ahead with a 59% market share, while iOS falls to a 23% market share.
Shortly after the release of iOS 5, a new book on app development for iPhone and iPad is being published by Galileo Computing. The publisher is making it available to all interested parties free of charge as an openbook to read and as a download.
“The Witness – The first movie in the outernet” is the first interactive film in the outernet. It is a real-life game played with the help of an iPhone app.
Mobile applications are hip and seem to make programmers who develop for the iPhone rich in particular. But Objective-C or Cocoa is not everyone’s cup of tea. This book explains how web developers can use standard tools to develop applications all the way through to native apps.
Apple yesterday introduced the iPad, a device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying pictures, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more.
Chinatown Wars was developed by Rockstar's renowned handheld studio Rockstar Leeds and is based on the highest-rated handheld title of this generation.
Working with Sony Music Entertainment Germany, Spatial View converted sequences from the Sony Blu-ray nature film “forsenses” into 3D for iPhone 3G and iPod Touch users through its new 3DeeSlide lens housing.
Adobe Systems today released Photoshop.com Mobile as an application for the iPhone. With this iPhone app, the software manufacturer is now also offering its digital image-editing technologies to users on the move.
Football fans around the world can get back to virtual play as of today: FIFA 10 from EA SPORTS is now in stores. FIFA 10 is being released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, PlayStation 2, PSP, iPhone and mobile phones.
Apple today introduced a developer preview of Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard, the next major release of the world’s easiest-to-use server operating system.
Apple today introduced iPhone 3G S, its fastest and most powerful iPhone yet, with improved speed and performance up to twice that of iPhone 3G, longer battery life, a high-quality 3-megapixel autofocus camera, easy video recording and hands-free voice control.
Mac users can now turn their iPhone into a television with a mobile video library. equinux has expanded its modern TV software The Tube with two free iPhone apps to create the first TV suite with comprehensive iPhone integration.
Apple has announced the results for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended on December 27, 2008. The company posted quarterly revenue of $10.17 billion and net profit of $1.61 billion, or $1.78 per diluted share.
Music software ranks among the ten most popular smartphone applications in the “Most Innovative App” and “Most Creative Use of iPhone Hardware” categories
All songs are DRM-free, users can download tracks directly to the iPhone 3G over a 3G network at the same price, and from April 2009 songs in iTunes will be offered at three price points.
The first business conference for the German-speaking Apple market, i-meeting ’08—The OS X Business Conference, will be held at BMW Welt in Munich on 17 and 18 November 2008. It focuses on OS X-based enterprise solutions for corporate customers.
Apple announced results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008, which ended September 27, 2008. The company posted quarterly revenue of US$7.9 billion and net profit of US$1.14 billion, or US$1.26 per share. In the year-ago quarter, revenue was US$6.22 billion and net profit was US$904 million, or US$1.01 per share. Gross margin was 34.7 percent, compared with 33.6 percent a year earlier. International sales accounted for 41 percent of quarterly revenue.
Apple announced today that iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded more than 100 million applications from the groundbreaking new App Store since its launch on July 11, 2008. More than 3,000 native applications are currently available, 600 of them free, with over 90 percent priced below US$10.
Apple announced today that iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded more than 10 million applications from the new App Store since its launch late last week.
Apple today introduced the new iPhone 3G with UMTS, combining all the revolutionary features of the iPhone with 3G network technology. Thanks to 3G, the new iPhone is twice as fast as the first-generation iPhone.
Apple has introduced MobileMe, a new internet service that uses cloud computing to push email, contacts and calendars to native applications on iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs.
Apple announced that the iPhone Software Development Kit had been downloaded more than 250,000 times since March 6. The SDK gives developers the same APIs and tools Apple uses to create native iPhone applications.
Apple today announced results for the second quarter of fiscal 2008, which ended on 29 March 2008. During the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $7.51 billion and net profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per share.
Following the successful restructuring of CANCOM UK in 2007, this marks the start of an aggressive growth strategy intended to double its presence in the United Kingdom from four to eight locations within a year.
Apple has announced that more than 100,000 iPhone developers downloaded the beta version of the iPhone Software Development Kit within four days of its release on 6 March.
Sun Microsystems plans to develop a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for Apple's iPhone and iTouch. Erich Klein, Sun Vice President Java Marketing, made the announcement around a day after the official beta launch of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for the iPhone.
equinux today introduced The Tube 2.5 with the TubeToGo web service. The Tube users can now publish their TV recordings in a web gallery, watch them over the Internet and schedule recordings while on the move. The TubeToGo web interface can be used to manage the entire recording archive in The Tube and publish it in the TubeToGo web gallery.
Apple reported first-quarter fiscal 2008 revenue of US$9.6 billion and net profit of US$1.58 billion, compared with US$7.1 billion and US$1 billion a year earlier.