The Television New Zealand (TVNZ) charter has been finally extracted like a bad tooth that has been afflicting the company for years. This cure will have little, if any impact on what is actually shown on screen. At least that is what the Minister of Broadcasting, Jonathan Coleman would have...

The new Final Cut Pro X is now available to the public for less than a third of the price of the discontinued FCP 7 suite it replaces. But if you had to edit a television show with FCP X today, you would probably be struggling because, aside from the name, the new application doesn’t...

By itself, a Sony EX3 might be a great camera but it’s not HD broadcast quality.  Not in the U.K, not for Discovery Channel, not for Television New Zealand. The HD technical delivery standards documents that explain this are drawn up by the broadcasters themselves, perhaps so they will...

It’s been a long time coming, and there was some serious controversy about how it came about in the end but it has finally happened – Apple have announced and demonstrated their newest version of Final Cut Pro. There are some big changes, but is Apple right about the future of...

I just saw something special. It feels like being in on a secret, and at this stage that’s sort of what it is… At the Auckland launch for the Sony PMW-F3 we were treated to what appears to be a world-first peek at a picture of the next step in Sony’s Super35 camera...

With Sony having released details of their PMW-F3 camera in the last few days the discussion now, inevitably, seems to have become one of AF100 vs F3. So how can we judge these two cameras against one another – do they compete head-to-head? Panasonic have said they weren’t...

It looks like Panasonic’s AF100 is the first volley of a counter attack against the video-DSLR revolution sparked by the Canon 5D Mk II. According to a forum post by Panasonic the camera is aimed at existing  HVX and EX users.  But the market perception sees it differently –...

Here is the news. Television is bigger, and it might just be harder. But Sir Peter Jackson and David Court appear to think that television is lower down the arty pecking order than real films – feature films like those funded by the New Zealand Film Commission. Their recently released...

Viewing camera tests are like wine tastings. The terms are different but the psychology is the same. In the room there is usually somebody with the status of senior expert, some lesser experts, and then some people who might be experts one day if only they can master the right combination of...

Will anybody care if the new Red Scarlet is a 3K camera, when before long Nikon and Canon will have 2k and maybe even 2K RAW? Lots of my work now involves Canon footage. These are the same clients who were until recently bringing me footage from the RED One. This is not about quality...