Daily Panels at the Sundance Film Festival 2012

The Utah Film Commission presents The HUB, 751 Main Street in Park City, Utah during the Sundance Film Festival. The HUB has priority access to credentialed Sundance Film Festival attendees to enjoy the space to gather, sip a warm drink and recharge—devices as well as physically. The HUB will host a series of relevant and provocative panel discussions in an intimate setting. To receive updates of HUB events and reserve your seat for a panel, go to HUB.verite.com

So you’ve heard the rumors for months now and even with NAB coming close, Apple pulled out years ago so nobody expected much. Enter the SUPERMEET, sponsored by the LAFCUG. Rumors swirled all over Twitter today that something BIG is going to happen. First, Philip Bloom and Canon where taken off the roster, poor Phillip is not longer presenting (although it hasn’t been updated on the website) and then superstar director Kevin Smith, brought in by Avid (why are they there?) is being relocated. Why? Because Apple wants the event all to themselves. One can only assume it would be to announce the new version of FCP. Wish I could be there, but I’ll be on a shoot that week...doing the real work. But, I’ll follow twitter from afar.

Here are a few links, I’m sure there are more blowing up as I write this.

• http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/shullfish/story/are_you_ready_for_fcp_x/
• http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2011/04/05/supermeet-1-week-from-today-who-knows-what-will-be-there/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
• http://www.9to5mac.com/59664/apples-jaw-dropping-final-cut-pro-to-be-unveiled-at-nab-next-week-in-vegas/

Tucker Dansie

We just received our first production version of the Sony PMW-F3 and after a few preliminary client demonstrations we had a few hours with the camera to run some preliminary tests to evaluate the low light performance and examine the chroma noise and its characteristics. Our first camera was leaving the next day to go to Panavison in Burbank for some various lens test (including the new Sony primes which arrived after this first test) so we had a very tight schedule. It will be back in one week and we will be able to run more tests Since Sony has stated a signal to noise ratio of 63dB which is unheard of in the HD world we were anxious to see if indeed this high specification could be seen in the real world by the unaided eye. We were also interested to see if the high gain of 18dB was indeed usable for actual production footage.