We got in line about 4:30, and we’re about 300 people back. Woah. This place is crazy to the max

This line wraps around one side of Moscone – this photo is of the first half of the second side.

Only 3 and a half hours to go!

So I bought a mini-RC Helicopter and it is the single greatest thing of all time, ever. Everyone needs one of these. Mine came from RadioShack, but there are apparently lots of different brands.

Dig the video (click to play):

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I’ll explain tomorrow …

1. Audiovisual works included in the educational library of a college or university’s film or media studies department, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of making compilations of portions of those works for educational use in the classroom by media studies or film professors.
   So, it’s now legal to rip a DVD for some educational uses. Nice. Now… about the rest of the DMCA?
   EFF has the whole story

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Again, stealing from DVGuru. Video LED is a neat little company producing on-camera LED lights which draw power from the hotshoe. Cheap and easy!

Muahaha.

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I can stop ranting now! FS4ProHD support for recording HDV in Quicktime files.

Now, I could rant a little bit about spending $40 to have a CD shipped to me, but I’m so happy to finally be done waiting, that I won’t complain.

Place your orders now!

Yeah, I want one..

Can someone explain to me what Sony’s prefixing is all about? They just announced the V1U, the successor to the Z1U. So far, they haven’t made any changes to the A1U. So the V is better than the Z and also better than the A. Obvious eh?

In any case. Here it is, the V1U. The gist? It’s a tarted up FX7, as we might have expected following the announcement of the FX7 at IBC. The only major difference is that instead of the pseudo-24p stuff from the Z1, it’s go true progressive chips (CMOS not CCD). Interestingly, Sony derides those crummy old “progressive-look” systems in their press release.

A few interesting things to go along with it. First, it can apparently run at hi-speed, 240fields per second, and record that to the normal 60i tape. That’s a VERY cool feature – true slow mo without laying down for the HVX-200.

They’re also pushing a 60 gig harddisk recorder to go along with it. They don’t say too much about it, but it’s an interesting option.

So here you have it, the V1U. $4800, shipping in December (January in the real world, nothing really ships in December).

I know the majority of the folks who read this site are Mac users, so you might be interested to take a look at a project I’ve been contributing some code to here and there. It’s called Scopebox, and it’s a software based Waveform/Vectorscope/Preview monitor (with lots of other stuff) to do live analysis of your video. Mike‘s been working on it for the last six months or so, and it’s finally about ready for release, so take a look.