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American monitor expert SmallHD unveiled what is claimed to be the world‛s brightest and toughest 24in production monitor at the BSC show in London. The 2403HB features an aluminium chassis for durability and is 25% lighter than the previous 24in high-bright model. The monitor has 1600nits of brightness, so is ideal for outdoor productions. It has two 3G-SDI and HDMI inputs/ outputs, 1920x1080 resolution and will be on sale soon for $2999. A UK price has not yet been announced. smallhd.com SmallHDgo big and super bright!
The price of shooting Red cameras has just dropped as British firm Kippertie has revealed the Red-approved memory to fit the American- made cameras. Its Longtake SSDmags cost £1620/$2139 for a 2TB memory drive, where the official Red Mini- Mag is only available at less than half the capacity, 960GB for £2340/$2350. The Longtake mags use an SSDmodule made in China for Samsung, while the rest of the drive is made in England. The Longtake 2TB is an M.2 SATA device, where the Red Mini-Mag is mSATA. The 2TB drive can be supplied with a USB-C Gen.2 port, for fast offloading to hard drives. This port is covered and deactivated when the mag is in use by the camera, but provides high-speed offload without a mag reader. Inside is a Samsung 860 EVO M.2 SATA SSD, rated for over 450MB/s sustained write speed even at 80°C. It also comes with data recovery software. For many years Red has refused to allow any other manufacturer to make memory to fit its cameras and their high prices have often been a big stumbling block for filmmakers. kippertie.com LONGTAKE CUTS RED MEMORY COST
PAY-AS-YOU-GO COLOUR GRADING
increasingly varied flavours of Log,” he says. “Most filmmakers just need their projects to look crisp, clean, realistic and consistent. Our services were only really serving the top 5% of users and a considerably larger segment of filmmakers was essentially being ignored. We aim to give a great and affordable service to commercial filmmakers who can work out precisely howmuch it will cost. “We don’t use LUTs. We assess the dynamic range of your shots using a waveformmonitor and make sure your black and white points are placed precisely, retaining as much highlight and shadow detail as possible.” Filmmakers send a flattened, edited file which is colour corrected to make it technically perfect, rather than having a stylised look put on it. “We do not apply a creative look. So black will be black, white will be white and skin will be natural.” justgrade.it
Getting the colours of your films accurate and consistent between different shots has always been a tricky but vital process, and one that many filmmakers struggle to get right. High-end professional grading is often just too expensive for most smaller productions, so lots of filmmakers try it do it themselves or add a LUT in the hope it’ll magically solve everything. Top British colourist Ollie Kenchington is coming to the rescue by offering a new service of professional post-production colour grading charged per minute of finished film. For £69/$91 per minute of delivered footage, his new Just Grade It company offers professional colour services for footage up to 8K in all codecs including Log and HDR. Subscription plans are available and you can even try the service for free with a short clip. “Clients now expect you to provide professional colour-grading services from
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