If you haven’t come across “Storyboard Composer” for the iphone yet then you are missing out. It’s a genius piece of software that is truly revolutionary, that is why I voted for it the “2009 Best App Ever Awards”. I have most of the competition nominees and they are great but not as unique as this and for anyone into filmmaking it’s a great tool and an absolute bargain.
Filmmaker Richard Jobson in association with The Flash Centre are hosting the first Convergence conference in London.
This is from the press release:
Converge.One is the first in what will be series of events presented by the people who matter most; the creative community.
The economic challenges faced by modern cinema has found some salvation in a new technology that defies budget and delivers an artistic freedom that has long been lost to the accounts department.
The emergence of new Hybrid Digital SLR cameras such as the Canon EOS 5DMK2 and Canon EOS 7D has brought together the two disciplines of photography and movies in an a way that is challenging every aspect of visual language.
The ability to shoot HD with DSLR cameras using an array of prime and zoom lenses has changed the way that film-makers are thinking about their work. After years of being told big is best, we now can see small is indeed more beautiful and better as DSLR’s propel today’s storytellers to think out of the box and find an instant route to their vision.
Those who make this work will show how they were empowered and inspired to make the best use of these new exciting digital tools. Photographers and Filmmakers will present case studies of their most recent work and break down the idea, the process, and the various tools used to embrace the convergence of these once thought different disciplines.
There will be a “round table” discussion involving both the creators and users of the media showing how this convergence is changing how the industry works.
Students from FDMX will be challenged to make a short film to a brief before the event, edited and shown on the day.
Canon UK will present a short seminar on technology and products that are relevant to the convergence.
The Delegate Centre will have a selection of trade stands showcasing stills and video products from the best known names in the industry such as Zacuto, Marshall, Glidecam, Litepanels and many more.
Hot on the heels of the recent Vimeo iphone annoucement Exposureroom will tomorrow officially announce their iphone support. But I can exclusively reveal it here right NOW. I feel like a breaking news channel…
They have already converted 42,000 video, including all Editor’s Choices and anything uploaded in the past two months which are under 5 minutes long. Every video uploaded will be converted to an iphone friendly version and if you embed the videos on your site using the wordpress plug-in it will automatically detect you are using an iphone and switch to the iphone version rather than the flash version. This will be released by end of play today!
There will also be two version of iphone videos. One for low bandwidth on 3G and one for wi-fi. So that means all your videos will be converted into HD, Medium, Low, iphone low and iphone high.
The fact that you can embed videos in your site with the wordpress plug in and your iphone will automatically play iphone version is a killer feature…over to you Vimeo for the next move 
Isn’t competition great!!
The quality is very good. Just click below to watch “Venice’s People” in your iphone. Very impressive quality. I don’t know if Vimeo embeds are going to have the same ability…
I have managed to negotiate a 20% discount with singular software for all readers of my blog for one month only!
This software is essential for all Final Cut Pro users who record audio and video separately or use multi-cam. It’s a magical piece of software that takes ALL the pain out of syncing sound and video together without a timecode and without a sync point! Just chuck everything onto the timeline and it will either sync everything up (as long as you have reference audio on the video) and create separate sequences for each clip or create a multi clip sequence depending on what you tell it to do.
Busy time…the following weekend after Cork Film Festival I will be in Stockholm, Sweden talking for Canon about the 5dmkII and 7D as video tools. I will have two presentations a day on the Saturday and Sunday and also be hanging around to take questions throughout the day. Also, there will be special offers for anyone who buys a 7D or 5DmkII will get a free training DVD from FSTOP ACADEMY or if you already own the camera come see me for a show special 20% discount voucher for the download.
It’t the Foto Massan 2009 show. More details of location and dates can be found by clicking here.
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Flash doesn’t work on iphones. Big problem as the decent video hosting sites are all flash. Heck, my own site is all flash!
Well all know Youtube is iphone friendly, but there is some much junk of there! Vimeo, the premiere HD video sharing site, has just announced the start of iphone support. First off they have encoded staff picks and the HD channel into MP4 friendly versions. Next up will be Vimeo Plus users get it and then we will have an app.
Vimeo announced it on CNET today…with my little “San Francisco’s People” featured.
It looks great on the iphone. To see it copy and paste (or just clink this link to see it) http://vimeo.com/m/#/7260115
Here are some iphone screen grabs from it….I have to say it looks bloody awesome and when we can download videos directly from it even better!!
We’ve had some terrific independent reviews of our first training DVDs for the Canon 5dmkII and 7D.
Here is Cameratown.com’s review
Here is the link to DVinfo’s review of the 7D DVD and the 5dmkII DVD
PhotoFocus’s Scott Bourne gave the 5dmkII DVD 8 out of 10 and the 7D one 10 out of 10.
UPDATE: Due to overwhelming demand the film festival have asked me to do Sunday morning too. I have just found out that all places have gone. Sorry. But, I will be in Stockholm next weekend!
I will be in Cork from Friday at the Cork Film Festival. On Saturday morning I will giving a half day masterclass about DSLR cinematography using the Canon DSLRs. There are very limited spaces so if you are interested you need to book here. Obviously there is only so much I can talk about in such a short time, but I hope to cover all the pros and cons, show footage and let people have hands on with my gear. Both the 5DmkII and the 7D with the Zacuto gear.
I have now set up my Amazon.co.uk gear store to compliment the USA only one.
It contains some of my recommended gear that is available from them.
It’s a bit of a w*nky name that Facebook chose for it…but in essence it is a really simple and easy place to show videos to each other and have good discussions.
Http://www.facebook.com/philipbloomfilms
and many more!!
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