The Equipment Show

Last weekend The British Society of Cinematographers held their annual ‘Equipment Show’ at Elstree Film and Television Studios’ Studio One…or as it has been renamed, ‘The George Lucas Stage’. Highlights included the new HD cameras from Arri and Panavision, whose differing design philosophies try to achieve the same end result of film quality images on digital video tape.

MC Rebbe features the Panavision Genesis in The Technofile alongside the Arriflex D20The Sony camera…or as it has been renamed…The Panavision Genesis…has a Sony image sensor, Sony circuitry and an integrated Sony HD ‘tape deck’. It is designed to take the full range of Panavision Primo lenses and because it features a single ‘full frame’ sensor, there is no magnification factor, which means that these lenses offer exactly the same focal length and depth of field as if used with a Panavision 35mm film camera. Continue reading “The Equipment Show”

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Movie Magic Screenwriter 4.7

Movie Magic Screenwriter 4.7 reviewed in The Technofile by MC rebbe The Rapping RabbiIf you are now, or have ever been a Hollywood scriptwriter, you’ll know that scripts have to be formatted in a very specific way. You can do it with a word processor, but it’s not easy. What is easy is Movie Magic Screenwriter, which provides you with all the tools you need to quickly and easily format screen, stage and radio plays, sitcoms, episodic TV drama, novels and even multimedia/animation scripts. Continue reading “Movie Magic Screenwriter 4.7”

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Native Instruments Absynth 3.0

Famed for its visual hallucinogenic effects, Absinthe was THE drink of 19th century artists. Famed for its hallucinogenic auditory fx, Absynth is THE software of 21st century sound designers. It’s not hard to see why… it’s massive…really massive…and, unlike Absinthe, Absynth isn’t going to make you go blind…though turning it up loud enuff might just make you go def…

Absynth 3.0 reviewed in the technofile by Jewish rapper, jewish comedian and journalist, MC Rebbe the Rapping Rabbi.

Essentially it’s a complex synthesizer (that can operate in both stand alone mode and as a plug in) which offers pretty much everything but kitchen sync. Most of the action takes place in the patch window, where there are three ‘oscils’, four filters, three mods, one waveshaper and one effect module, all of which are modular so can be turned on and off independently of each other. Continue reading “Native Instruments Absynth 3.0”

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The Future Is Digital…

MC Rebbe The Rapping Rabbi. From his monthly editorial in The Technofile: Rapper, DJ, VJ, Producer, remixer, Jewish comedian, Jewish comedy, Jewish rap, Jewish music Last month at the PMA (Photo Marketing Association) trade show in Florida, Canon announced their brand new 8 mega pixel EOS 350D SLR (which is close to being a 20D, but at the ‘knock down’ price of £749/$899)…at almost exactly the same time as Kodak were announcing that UK production of Medium format film is to cease (though it will still be manufactured in other…sweatier…countries and sold in the UK). Continue reading “The Future Is Digital…”

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