PhotoJoseph here… These are all the short stories I created while at NAB and I'm posting them here together so you can see them all at once. At the end, I'll tell you where to go to see how these were made and where you can see more on Aaron Parecki's channel. I'm on the Laowa booth right now. You may have seen my video on the Nanomorphs recently. Well, now we're going with even bigger anamorphic lenses. There's a new 1.5, 2X Squeeze and a parfocal zoom non-anamorphic lens. Let's let Stephen tell us all about them. Laowa: So, certainly the 1.5 squeeze nanomorphs - last year, super super popular. We've shipped a ton of those. This year, we've announced our new Proteus Series. This is a 2X Squeeze Anamorphic Still super 35 coverage. Here we've got a set of 35, 45, 60, and 80 millimeter focal lengths. Also at the show here at NAB, we are announcing that we're going to add a 20 millimeter and 80 millimeter, a 100, and a 35 into that Proteas lineup to really round that one out. Also still available, blue flare, silver flare, or the amber flare. You get to choose based on the coatings that you which flare you're going to get. So, these guys are certainly our signature feature piece this year on the Proteus 2X squeeze anamorphics but then also, we still do have the 1.5 squeeze anamorphics but we've got the Ranger here. This is the 75 to 180 and we also have a 28 to 75. Those are the Parfocal Zoom, full-frame coverage, beautiful, beautiful, simple set. I don't have pricing but it's going to be very enticing. What about pricing on the 2X squeeze? I mean, this is looking like a Cooke lens. This is a monster here. Laowa: The Proteus, these guys are 5,000 a piece. You can buy them in sets and get a little bit of a discount there depending on what you go but certainly at that price point for what you're getting, what you can do with these guys, it's very very impressive. That it is. Awesome. Thank you very much. Laowa: Absolutely. Thank you. I'm at NAB with my buddy. What's your name again? Yo yo? Josh Yeo? Orbit: Something like that. What do you got here, Josh? You're showing off your new rig here at Kondor Blue booth. Orbit: Yeah. So, the Orbit, the latest thing is the new cinema arm attachment which basically - when we did the kickstarter for Orbit, we had the regular arms - they can hold like 10 pound camera weight fully extended but the motor itself is way overbuilt. It actually can hold my body weight. I've tested it. My partner won't like me saying that but it definitely does. Don't try this at home. Orbit: Yeah. So, we made a new cinema arm attachment that can slide any length speed rail through and we've tested it up to 40 feet. So, you can imagine 40 foot diameter and you are now having an insanely cinematic experience. You just have to tether it to something either in the ceiling. So, what we found is a slack line works. So, if you're using a slack line or ratchet straps in like an industrial warehouse, you can't tether to the ceiling, that'll totally work or like you can build the truss like they have here for live events, you know, music venues, that kind of thing. So, that's kind of what we're looking at. They have it set up so it's kind of perched down. This is a real kind of fun camera to cloud thing that they're doing as well where you can record yourself on there and then you just scan the QR code and it'll be sent to your Email. Kondor Blue, they set it up. We're at the Kondor Blue booth. So, if you're at NAB, come by Kondor Blue and check this out and say hello to the man. Orbit: Come get your recording. Come get your recording. Josh, what's your channel? Orbit: Make Art Now. Make Art Now. Nanlite booth and as you guys know, I'm a big fan of Nanlite. I got a bunch of them in my studio. Thanks to a gentlemen like Barry here. How's it going, buddy? Nanlite: How are you, sir? I'm good. Talk about what is new, what you're talking about here at NAB that's super exciting. Nanlite: Yes, exactly. So, we updated our Forza line. What we've done is that we've taken kind of everything that everybody said, “Hey, I wish it did this” or “I wish it did that” and they've put that into the new line. Give me an example. Nanlite: Okay, so say for instance, cables. Everybody always talked about, “hey, I wish the cable was a little longer. I wish the power cable was you know, 16 feet.” That's what they did. They said, “you know what? That's what we're going to do.” Also, we also updated the actual control units. They made them a lot easier, more compact, more easy to use as well as being able to just kind of set things up for battery, whatever it might be - connectors were updated. So the Forza line kind of had a refresh to it. And you said controlling from a panel but you can control it from a Bluetooth device as well, right? Nanlite: You are correct. Now what they ended up doing was now everything can be controlled via Bluetooth. All of our lights have a Bluetooth chip inside that allows you to be able to control it either on a one-to-one solution with your phone or your device or you can set it up through our WS-TB-1 control box and do 500 lights if you want to. Wow, that's awesome. So, I know there's something else you want to show us on the color tube lights, the PavoTube. Let's head over there and check those out. These are the PavoTube and you go from this tiny little - what is that? Like that's a foot? Nanlite: That's a 10 inch PavoTube. 10 inch? And then this is eight feet tall? Nanlite: Eight foot two. Can you imagine that? I know, it's great, right? I mean, any type of tube that you would need for any type of situation, that's what's really cool. Now, you know, I mentioned, we have the new C-series and kind of what we did with the Forzas, we updated them. We may them so they're much brighter actually, almost 10% brighter than the old units were. They added some new control features, they made it so that they won't turn off as easy as they used to and - but they made the control options again - Bluetooth, they have DMX in them now so you can use an adapter and DMX the lights and made it so that everybody can use this type of picture-in-picture because we all know we love PavoTubes. That's awesome. I absolutely love this. I use them all the time. They're fantastic. Thank you very much. We'll see you next year at NAB once again. Nanlite: Yup, always good to see you. We're on the Deity booth where as you know, they make amazing microphones. More recently, they've been making some time code tools and now they put the two together into this amazing little microphone. Tell us what we've got. Deity Booth: So, this is a 32 bit stereo recorder which is gonna do two Lavaliers into it if you have a wide split or you can in the microphone into it. Here, I've got a single mono Lavalier going in. It's 32 bit float, which means you're not going to distort and because it's so small, it will drop into your pocket. It locks up so you can't accidentally stop the record. So, if you throw it in someone's pocket, you're good to go. Battery life is going to be 30 hours, 300% more than the competitors on the market and what's really great about this is micro SD card up to 128. So, it's easily going to hold all your audio for your shoots. Great for the TikTokers out there who want a great audio and not want to store a clip but also don't want to worry about audio when you're actually doing the fun stuff like shooting video. And then how does the timecode intergrate with this? And I think there's something about an app, right? Deity: So, it integrates with an app so you can trigger up to 20 of these at once into a phone - iOS and Android but also you can do a timecode box like our TC-1 yet the sync pulse on it in all 20 units would sync up to a single timecode signal. So, when you're editing software, they're always going to perfectly align. That is fantastic. if you're at NAB, come by the show floor and check this out and if not check them out online. I'm on the Black Magic booth and DaVinci Resolve has been updated to 18.5… I'm here with my buddy Sean - what is new? DaVinci Resolve: Well, there are number of things but if I started the top, I probably want to focus on the speech-to-text which we can generate in subtitles directly in a timeline. We can generate speech-to-text as transcription into the media pool on clips. This also allows us to search and then to create text-based selections for our editing. So, you're basically editing by text with this tool now. DaVinci Resolve: It's a paper cut. It's very simple. We just transcribe the audio and the media pool and it shows us a new window. We can select the text that we want. It creates a subclip or a duration marker clip for us. We can edit right to the timeline from there. We can export that as text as well. So, if we need to keep a copy of our scripts. Absolutely amazing. I heard there's also a new relighting tool. I haven't gotten to see that one yet. Tell me about that. DaVinci Resolve: So, Relight is another neural engine tool that we have. It's DaVinci Neural Engine which is an AI powered tool and Relight is basically using a combination of things but essentially look at a depth map that's determining this depth on the 2D frame. Relight then allows us to add a 3D volumetric light to cast more light into the scene after shooting it. It's really impressive. That's amazing. I cannot wait to see that one. So, there's also some new stuff in Fairlight - ganging clips together so they can be muted and and controlled at once? DaVinci Resolve: Correct, yeah. So, this is a new way that we can control them in groups. Makes it a lot more flexible. In fact, you can select the group that controls the whole fader control. They'll fly from automation as well. There's a lot of things that the groups basically make a little bit easier to you know, manage multiple tracks in your edit. And then in Fusion, I know there's a new node, a multi node or something like that. Supposed to make it - is this to make it easier to composite multiple nodes together? DaVinci Resolve: Well, I mean, essentially, as nodes are very flexible right now, it's just what we ended up with is a multi merge tool - allows you to see in this one node that you can stack several different layers. In fact, you control layer order in this node, you can control layer visibility in this node and unlike what you can do and say merge 3D node, these are just 2D playing nodes so this is a very simple vertical stack composite and you know, among other places, this is one of the ways that that's improved. Awesome. And as usual, this is a free update to Resolve, so whether using Resolve that's free or Resolve Studio, that's the paid version, you still get this update. That is awesome. Thank you very much Sean. DaVinci Resolve: Thank you so much. We're on the Synology booth checking out the latest NAS - the DS1823xs+. This is a tabletop NAS with 10-gig support and Catherine's going to tell us all about it. Synology: So, it's an 8-bay unit. The 18 actually means that it has 8 drive base but it's expandable with two 5-bay expansion units. It has built-in 10 gig, has two NVMe slots so you can actually add two NVMe drives for a storage pool or for a read/right cache. It supports quite a bit of RAM. It's actually like a server-grade processor in this tiny little unit that you can put in your house. And this is all running on 10 gig NAS, so what that means is you can edit your footage over the network which we're going to see right now. Now we're on an editing station running Premiere that is connected to that NAS and the files we're playing back right now are… They're ProRes 4444 XQ. So these are not small files… No no no and we've got multiple streams coming off of the NAS at the same time and we can scrub back and forth like nobody's business. Start and stop on a dime. Works just great over the network. Perfect. And this is the way that I'm editing now in my studio. I actually have one of their NAS's in my studio and it is fantastic! This is so cool. This something that when we launched ATOMOS CONNECT last year, first announced it, immediately I had this idea. My buddy Aaron Parecki and I who's doing this with me this week. He and I had this idea that we could shoot stories from the show floor. Shoot video on the show floor and have it edited and delivered next day? Why wait until next day? Have it done in real time. So, this is literally what we're doing right here and that's what this rig is right here. So, just to kind of go through what's happening on the surface. I'm going to go through it twice but the the service area is where we're shooting, the camera mounted vertically which is recording into the ATOMOS Ninja V - On a beautiful cage. On a beautiful Kondor Blue Cage. Absolutely gorgeous. Fabulous cage. Love the color routine. So, it's recording into the Ninja V+ here and on the back of that is the is - let's turn this round - is the ATOMOS CONNECT. The ATOMOS CONNECT is currently tethered by Ethernet into this backpack here. Let me lift this up. So, this backpack - This is a Sclera bonded cellular system and now, people see this like, oh, you have to have that. You need a connection to the internet, right? So that can be WiFi or it could be tethered internet or you can link it to your phone. You can do a cellular connection. Here at NAB, why even WiFi doesn't work? Like nothing works here, right? We have a lot of problems here at this booth. Yeah. There's just way too much interference. So, that's why we are for one, using a tether ethernet cable here is tethering in so that we don't have the WiFi into this backpack, although we could, right? But it's just too and then this of course is giving us a high-speed bandwidth and cellular connection to get a signal out to the internet. So, By the way, screenshot, hit that QR code. So, you want to go to that QR code. That has an explainer of what's going on here as well as links to see the footage. So, alright. So, we're shooting here. This ATOMOS CONNECT is uploading the footage to the cloud to Frame.io. We have an editor in Los Angeles who pulls the footage down as soon as it hits and starts editing it. He's putting those out as vertical shorts that he sends back to us via Frame.io for approval. We approve them and then we got another person who takes the approved video, uploads it to our social accounts, tags them and does all that good stuff. Awesome. Day three of NAB, I'm on the Kondor Blue Booth with something very exciting that I've known was coming but I am so stoked to be able to finally show you guys this. This is remarkable and I'm going to let my man from Kondor Blue tell me all about it. What do we got here? Kondor Blue: Well, we both have good friends over at Penasonic and they're the ones who came to us and said, “Hey, these Pro-Blades from SanDisk are legit. These are the drives that we want to be recording on all of our GH6 and S5 II X cameras.” They said, “There's no way to use them on a camera yet. Is there something that you can do?” So, we talked with Western Digital and SanDisk, collaborated to figure out how to get this done and here it is at the show. There's only four in existence but we'll have them available really soon here. Probably end of May or early June. Basically you're able to use this Pro-Blade SanDisk handles and slide them right into your rig. This is seamless. It slides right on with the NATO rail, it goes to USB-C down right into your camera. So, it works with any of the cameras that do USB-C recording to SSD. It also works as a side handle. so, if you slide it off the NATO here, you can invert the plate, put it on the side here invert it so it's a nice side handle. You could have the drive sticking up or you could have the drive sticking down. It won't slide off. So, we've nested in the USB-C connector into the NATO rail right here. It already protects the cable because it's a right angle, and once you put a NATO rail on there, a NATO device, it won't come off at all. So, that's going to be important for obviously your recording and your data but the whole bottom is a NATO rail as well. So, you can slide the whole thing front to back. It's just super versatile. Congratulations. This is a hell of a product. I know a lot of people are going to love this one. It is very cool. We're on Sennheiser booth at NAB and before I hand this over, I want to point out I am using a Sennheiser mic here. We have had zero interference problems. This mic has been rock solid. Sennheiser makes great stuff and they got something new for us. Chris is going to tell us all about it. Sennheiser: Alright, thank you. So yeah, real quick. We'll take a look at our Evolution Wireless Digital Portable or EW-DP. It's the next product in the Evolution Wireless Digital line. It's got a very small form factor, diversity receiver that came out either on a magnetic cheese plate or on shoe mounts. Comes with the cables that you need. You can power it with USB, the rechargeable battery, also double A's. it works with our EWD transmitter, so we have body pack systems, handheld systems. We also have a plug on coming out in October which is really exciting. One key thing about this is a fully digital transmission path and the control we also have a smartphone app - the Smart Assist app which works on iOS and Android devices. all these devices are connected control wise via BLE, so no more infrared syncing them together. So, this is going to be for professionals on shoe mounts, on cage mount. It's going to fit every need as far as camera mount wireless with our Sennheiser digital transmission pads. Sounds amazing. That sounds fantastic. And you told me before we started recording that this has an extremely low latency. Now, I'm used to with the AVX 19 millisecond latency and this has? 1.7 milliseconds of latency. 1.7 milliseconds… Like 1.7 gigawatts. Sennheiser: Something like that. Alright. Thank you very much Chris, this looks fantastic. We're on the ATOMOS booth and first of all, I have to say thank you very much ATOMOS for sponsoring these new segments. This has been a ton of fun but now we get to talk about something that is new from ATOMOS itself in the ATOMOS Cloud. Paul, what have we got here? ATOMOS: Well, our latest big news for NAB is that we now have cloud editing. So, we have ATOMOS Edit which is our latest edition to ATOMOS Cloud Studio, which of course is the gateway to all the different services. Fantastic. So, what this means is that you don't have to download the footage from Frame IO that is being uploaded by a camera to cloud solution like we're doing right now. Our editor could literally be editing footage in the cloud without downloading it at all. ATOMOS: Exactly. So, we've almost taken out that step. So, it really rounds off the solution of what we got here. So, we're using this - just to remind everyone, we're using the same connected hardware, the Ninja V, the Ninja V+ with the ATOMOS CONNECT. We're using the the Shogun CONNECT, we're even using the Zato CONNECT here and we can take those devices just in the same way you can record locally, high res file, the other file, the proxy file is going immediately up into the edit, into ATOMOS Edit. Straight there, drag it on to the timeline, add some nice titles, graphics, branding, whatever you want to do, and then directly publish to social like YouTube or Vimeo or export as an XML to another craft editor, maybe Final Cut, Premier, whatever. It's a real end-to-end solution. We're allowing someone to get stuff up probably as quick as you're going to be able to get it. Straight from glass of the camera all the way through to the timeline and publish. I love it. Absolutely amazing. What a time saver. Thank you very much for showing this to us. Now, we're going to see the rest of the show. I am finally on the Aputure booth. For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you know that I've been super excited to come here to see this brand-new MC-Pro Kit. This thing is beautiful. David's going to tell us all about it. What have we got here? Aputure: Alright, guys. So, this is a new version of our kits. It's not just a new version of the MC lights, it's also a pro version which means they are waterproof and they have more punch than the previous versions. So, they come in a kit of eight. We have two types of diffusers for them. First, we have a basic diffuser which converts them from a hard punchy source back to the original one, so it's soft. if you want even more softness, you can round it up and then it becomes an omnidirectional source. Furthermore, we have another type of diffuser which you have been requesting many times and we've heard you. So, it is a grid which attaches just like this with magnets to the end of the lights so you can narrow down your beam more towards you know, what you want to actually light up and avoid spills which you don't want. And this kit isn't just about storage, the kit actually charges the lights when they're in place here and you see there's status lights on here to show the charging status of each one. You just plug the kit into the wall with an AC plug on the outside? Aputure: We have two options for charging. So, option one is just AC power and option two is actually hooking up a D-tap from a V-log battery. So, if you're set, you don't have, you know, a generator, you can still charge this. That's it folks. I need one of these in my life. We're on the Hedge booth now and their flagship product is called Hedge and I've been using it for quite a while to copy all my media off my cards to my computer safely and securely but now that app is getting a rebrand and it's getting some new features. Tell us about it. Hedge: We're rebranding it to Offshoot but there was just too much confusion between the app name and the company name. So, we're diversifying Offshoot at the same time to three versions. We have a native iPad version. Hedge is becoming offshoot and then we're going to do an Offshoot Pro version. A few weeks from now, everybody that has a license will automatically roll over into two new one or if it's an expired license, you can renew it as a discount. What is actually new about Offshoot Pro is that we built a S3 pipeline together with AWS with the same verification that you're used to from doing local verification and that's a industry first because S3 typically isn't built for that purpose but you want to do a copy to cloud as fast as you can with that same peace of mind. Excellent. That sounds awesome. So something is going to really hit that higher end workflow. What are the price tiers going to be of the three different versions? Hedge: iPay currently is 50ish dollar because we think that's a really easy way to get into mobile offloading and until we release Offshoot, it's going to be discounted to $99 and Offshoot Pro is going to be like a 50% more when we release it. Sounds great. Thanks for the update.
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