Talking Tech and CrumplePop
Last fall we we’re lucky enough to meet USA Today’s Jefferson Graham when he came to Minneapolis for a story on tech companies in the Minnesota (check out the piece here!) Early this week Jefferson posted an interesting interview with Carson Daly about the approach his television program takes to production. It was awesome to...
Love Letters To The End and Lumineux
A few weeks ago we came across a very interesting project that was using Lumineux in some of it’s footage. The footage looked great, but it was the idea that impressed us most. We got a chance to talk with Love Letters To The End’s Peter Dean about his project and working with Lumineux. Can...
See You At NAB
This weekend we are flying out to Las Vegas for the 2012 National Association of Broadcasters Show. I cannot wait to try out all the new gear and see what projects people are working on. We will also have a table at the CPUG Supermeet on Tuesday. We will be featuring some of our upcoming...
Apple Updates Final Cut Pro to 10.0.4
The latest update for Final Cut Pro launched midday yesterday. 10.0.4 features mostly minor performance fixes. They’ve improved the broadcast monitoring and multi-cam performance and added Simplified Chinese support. While this may not be the most massive update, it’s fantastic to see Apple taking such an active role in FCP X. Within less than a...
Less Than 24 Hours To Get Grain35 On Kickstarter
Less than a month ago we launched our very own Kickstarter project: Grain35. Throughout the past few weeks we’ve been amazed at the wonderful support we’ve received in order to launch our very own comprehensive set of 35mm and 16mm film grain scans. We’ve luckily reached beyond our goal – meaning the product is well...
Sony Annouces The 4k Ready Slow-Mo Camera, The NEX FS700
Sony made a nice pre-NAB announcement in the form of their latest NEX camera, the FS700. The FS700 features an incredible sensor that will be capable of shooting 4k (while using an external recorder,) although this feature won’t be available at launch. The camera is also able to to shoot all way up to 960fps...
Introducing Grain35
We’re excited to announce that we’ve launched a Kickstarter for our latest project Grain35. Grain35 is a set of 35mm and 16mm film grain scans that you can use inside FCP 6, 7, and X, Adobe Premier and Avid Media Composer. There are a bunch of fantastic film grain sets online but many of them...
Last Day To Get TransiMatic for $39
Today is your last chance to our great new transition tool for FCP X, TransiMatic for the sale price of $39. After today TransiMatic will go to it’s normal price of $75. Click here to learn more about TransiMatic.
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Introducing TransiMatic
TransiMatic™ from CrumplePop on Vimeo. Working with SquidFX, We’ve just released out latest product: TransiMatic. TransiMatic features 10 completely customizable slide, swing and flip transitions for Final Cut Pro X. Simply drag and drop TransiMatic on to your timeline to add unique transitions between your clips. On top of that, TransiMatic offers a multitude of...
CrumplePop On The Digital Convergence Podcast
A few days ago, Gabe was a guest on the Digital Convergence podcast with Carl Olson, Chris Fenwick and planetMitch. They looked in depth at the announcement of the Canon 5D mark III, the history of how CrumplePop started (and where we’re headed,) our thoughts on FCP X and much more. It’s a great hour...
5D Mark III Moire, Low Light and Jello Test.
Tõnis Liivamägi posted a low light, moire and jello effect test using ISO 3600 1080p footage straight from a preproduction 5D Mark III. I’d suggest downloading the footage to get the full effect (on Vimeo it only streams in 720p.) It’s interesting to see how well it performs. Much less moire than expected. Definitely worth...
Canon Announces 5D Mark III
Canon announced it’s long anticipated full frame HDSLR, the EOS 5D Mark III. The mkIII features a 22.3 megapixel sensor. It shoots up to 60fps at 720p (no 1080p 60fps) with h.264 compression. Canon added a new DIGIC processor which should help with some of the jello and moire issues that haunt the mkII. Two...
