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Panasonic GH2 Hacked Further, Now Records to Advanced 176Mbit Codec
The Panasonic GH2, arguably the most aliasing-free, highest-resolution hybrid camera out there (pictured here with the $500 ReWo GH2 cage), natively records to a 24Mbit Long GOP codec. “Long GOP” means...
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The Future of Encoding is Almost Here: HEVC (H.265) is Coming to 1 Billion...
The advancements in lossy video encoding have been both consistent and amazing. H.264 (or AVC), that much maligned DSLR de-facto codec, sought to yield improved quality over its predecessors such as...
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H.265 is Now Officially Approved, is 4K Streaming and Broadcast Just Around...
Technology’s progression sometimes moves with consistent momentum, and sometime comes in spurts. For instance, processors of mobile devices regularly decrease in size and price with relation to power —...
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At a Loss with Video Compression? Here Are Some Encoding Basics and Artifact...
While H.265 has been approved as the next-gen lossy delivery codec, we’re still watching a vast amount of video in H.264. In fact, even when H.265 sooner or later takes its place, videomakers will...
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Opening Up 4K: Sony Expands Consumer 4K Market Compatibility with XAVC S
Sony’s tight cluster of NAB 2013 4K-centric announcements featured some of the most affordably priced UHD TVs yet seen all the way over to the external recorder-enabled 4K shooting capabilities of its...
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Will the Google-Supported WebM Open-Source V9 Video Codec Surpass H.265?
Let the next-gen online video compression wars begin. H.265, the codec that was approved earlier this year as an ITU-T standard and claims to be 50% more efficient than its predecessor H.264, now looks...
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Google's VP9 Gets Hardware Support, Poised to Be the Dominant 4K Streaming Codec
2014K Continues! When we last posted about the VP9 codec it was just beginning to threaten H.265 for dominance, but recent hardware partnerships with nVidia, ARM, Sony and many other tech giants...
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RED Digital Cinema & YouTube Team Up to Stream 4K Videos
RED is well-known as a proponent of 4K, and as a manufacturer of cameras capable of shooting at that resolution (and higher). It’s also no stranger to the consumer 4K-viewing realm, a growing market in...
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How Does the GH4 Stack Up Against the BMCC For Green Screen Work? Prepare to...
Common knowledge tells us that codec and compression are two of the most important factors (after lighting, of course) when it comes to green screen work and being able to pull a quality key from your...
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Here's What You Need to Know About Video Compression
As filmmakers, most of us consider ourselves to be creative people. Having a creative intuition and knowing how to use it is incredibly important in this field, but many of us — especially folks like...
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