Category: IBC
IBC 2023 – The world is a workstation
This post is by Phil Rhodes from ProVideo Coalition When Amazon Web Services has a booth as large as some of the major equipment suppliers at a big, international film and television trade show, something interesting is happening. If we’re going to sum up IBC 2023, then it’s not going to be about a lens…
IBC Day 3: The unchanging eyeball
This post is by Scott Simmons from ProVideo Coalition As we said yesterday on day 2 of IBC, looks a lot like NAB, only it’s IBC. Or perhaps NAB looks like IBC? You can read about day 1 as well. There’s a strange imperative, at exhibitions like IBC, to find new inventions that make previously…
IBC 2023 – Day 2
This post is by Phil Rhodes from ProVideo Coalition Strolling around the halls of IBC, it’s easy to forget that each one of the humming, blinking boxes of tricks on display has been the target of a huge amount of hard work by dedicated teams of people, many of whom probably sweated bullets and worked…
Updates from IBC 2023 – A push for the high end
This post is by Phil Rhodes from ProVideo Coalition If anything has characterised the last decade or so of film and TV equipment releases, it’s democratisation. That means one of two things, depending on what your background is: it’s either a way for independents to escape the shackles of bourgeoisie convention and bring unique and…
The road to IBC
This post is by Phil Rhodes from ProVideo Coalition This isn’t IBC 2023, which had not happened yet at the time of writing. But it sort of, kind of looks like IBC 2023 will look. Probably. There was a time when IBC was the trade show at which all the things shown behind glass at…
Adobe updates their video applications including a few signature features for Premiere Pro
This post is by Scott Simmons from ProVideo Coalition With IBC 2023 ready to launch, Adobe has announced updates to their signature video applications, including some nice new features for Premiere Pro. These new features aren’t shipping in the release version just yet, which comes this fall, but they will roll out in the public…
Sony Burano Is Coming!
This post is by Jason Hellerman from XDCAM-USER.COM by Alister Chapman Sony have started a teaser campaign for a new camera called Burano. – Well, actually Sony haven’t said its a camera but if you look at the pictures it is pretty obvious that is what it is and the CineAlta badge is a huge…
Nikon’s Robotics Unit Brings Repeatable Motion Control to All Content Creators
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Nikon’s acquisition of Mark Roberts Motion Control (MRMC) is yielding some impressive dividends that content creators of all budgets can take advantage of thanks to the new Cinebot Mini motion control robot. The single-arm motion control robot can record camera movements in multiple axes, and replay those movements over and over again without the need…
IBC pushes filmmaking into The Matrix
This post is by Phil Rhodes from ProVideo Coalition Producers deal with recalcitrant subordinates in the usual way, even when virtual production is involved. By Pexels user Eugene Capon. Going by the organisation’s own press releases, IBC 2022 has been something of a gift for anyone looking to impress a buzzword-focussed search engine. There have…
Adobe Showcases Expanded Camera to Cloud Features at IBC 2022
From viewing real-time speech to text, automatic color correction, and adding timed music, to even first-pass visual effects Adobe is showcasing a massive expansion of the capabilities of Camera to Cloud, which is rapidly cutting short the time needed for post-production. “When work happens in parallel, the whole creative process is elevated,” writes the Adobe…