http://blog.studiobfilms.com Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:29:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New toy! One of our latest additions is the Tricaster TCDX300 and we were psyched last April when we had the chance to try it out on our fellow nerds at the Twitter Chirp Conference. This amazing little black box is small but mighty: it has the power of ... http://blog.studiobfilms.com/2010/07/23/broadcasting-live-from-your-backpack-with-the-tricaster-tcdx300-studio-b-films-now-offers-multicamera-hd-webcasting/ Say good bye to digitizing! Meet the KiPro from Aja: [caption id="attachment_245" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Aja KiPro"][/caption] Awww! Breath a sigh of relief- finally, no more agonizing hours of digitizing! With the new KiPro you are ready to edit as soon as your wrap. No more tapes! Isn’t this what you ... http://blog.studiobfilms.com/2010/05/17/say-hello-to-kipro-say-goodbye-to-digitizing/ [caption id="attachment_236" align="alignright" width="300" caption="David Collier director of photography "][/caption] Pulling together the right video crew is a key element to the success of your video production.  If you have ever shot in an unfamiliar city, you probably know that it can be especially challenging and intimidating to find a good crew.  ... http://blog.studiobfilms.com/2010/05/07/finding-the-right-videographer-for-your-video-production/ Oh 5D, why do I love you so? You are not a video camera and you have terrible audio… But damn baby, your pictures look good.[caption id="attachment_218" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Canon 5D Mark II"][/caption] This may be a little late in the game to be swooning over the ... http://blog.studiobfilms.com/2010/02/19/oh-5d-why-do-i-love-you-so/ Would you believe me if I told you we shot meat for two days? Well, we did. We spent two days in a studio shooting artisan deli meats: salamis, prosciuttos… for Columbus. As you can imagine, we sampled the delicious fare. This is an example of one of ... http://blog.studiobfilms.com/2010/02/19/studio-b-shoots-meat/ To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Sierra Nevada Brewery is releasing a series of specialty beers made by and honoring pioneers from the craft beer movement. A percentage of the proceeds go to charity. Studio B shot the video commemorating the project and the luminaries of the movement. We spent ... http://blog.studiobfilms.com/2010/02/19/studio-b-produces-video-to-celebrate-sierra-nevadas-30th-anniversary/ Recently, Studio B has been shooting science and we’re getting smarter by the day. The Chabot Science Center contacted us about making a DVD for their science afterschool program for girls, Techbridge. Studio B shot a series of three curriculum DVDs that teach circuitry, environmental science and the ... http://blog.studiobfilms.com/2010/02/19/studio-b-does-science/ The iPad was announced.  What next?  We are all thinking about applications for the tablet computer and new ways to consume media.  Well, that is exactly what Wired Magazine in partnership with Adobe has been working on in the last year.  A magazine created for the tablet computer. Studio B had ... http://blog.studiobfilms.com/2010/02/16/studio-b-partners-with-adobe-and-wired-magazine-to-showcase-the-new-possibilities-of-a-tablet-magazine/ Studio B shot Grammy Award-winning musician John Mayer’s latest music video in Hollywood, CA. Mayer, who tweets, blogs and posts his own videos on his website, contacted Adobe about collaborating on a new Augmented Reality video for his newly released album, Battle Studies. Mayer wanted to make an innovative new ... http://blog.studiobfilms.com/2009/12/04/studio-b-shoots-john-mayers-new-augmented-reality-music-video/ We recently got to do a shoot with Adobe for John Mayer's latest music video. Since it was to be a greenscreen shoot and placed into a pretty high-profile piece we decided to pull out all the stops. The timing worked out pretty well because it coincided with Apple releasing ... http://blog.studiobfilms.com/2009/12/04/john-mayer-in-prores-4444-with-the-panasonic-hpx-3700-p2-varicam/