A blog about video gear and video accessories
As predicted by the Financial Times and reported here on Tubeshooter on May 6th, YouTube has now officially launched a subscription-based service for viewers. Beginning with what it calls “a small group of partners … with subscription fees starting at $0.99 per month”, each channel will...
Sony Corporation has announced profits of £280 million for the year to the end of March 2013, compared to a loss of around ten times that amount (£2.9billion) in the prior twelve months. The “Imaging Products & Solutions” division, which includes consumer and broadcast video...
The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) has given Canon a handful of awards, including one for “best video DSLR” for its EOS-1D C camera. Sony too, was credited, with “Best Videocamera”, for the NEX-VG900″ The TIPA panel comprises 28 editors from photography and imaging magazines...
Adobe Inc has announced a dramatic revision to the way it sells its products. From June this year, all their software including popular video editing suite Premiere as well as After Effects and other programs, will be available only as what the company is terming...
Given the extraordinary number of videos streamed every day – heck, every minute – from YouTube, it’s no wonder that the company is always on the lookout for new ways to generate revenue from that content. Now, according to the Financial Times, the video website...
It seems remarkable but film director Andrew Bowser has shot an entire 90 minute feature film on a GoPro Hero 2 camera! He says it’s the first feature ever to be filmed like this and it will debut this summer at the Seattle International Film Festival...
Here’s a neat bit of kit from Kessler Crane; a bracket which attaches to their existing slider set-up, that turns the camera, very slightly, as it tracks along the rails. In other words, instead of the camera simply tracking parallel to whatever you’re filming, you...
Vimeo has announced a redesign of its site for mobile devices (not an app – the mobile version of its website). In a blog post, they say “Every update has been made to bring more of the Vimeo you love to your phone in a...