BVE 2014: London's Premiere Broadcasting Event

The week of London's best and largest broadcasting and video expo has arrived! The doors to the ExCeL open tomorrow to visitors with hundreds of worldwide manufacturers, organizations and plenty of seminars to learn and help businesses grow!

My highlights of last years BVE: Schneider cinema optics at Manfrotto

I'll be there for the 3 days covering the event for The IABM, with exclusive interviews with members as well as the Broadcasting Industry Breakfast. I will also be checking out all of the new tech; Sony FS7-K is riding high on the list so I'm sure the folks at CVP will soon get sick of answering my questions!

Lighting talk at the cinematography theatre

Things to see and do this year! Richard Ayoade's keynote is a MUST!!!

• Richard Ayoade's Keynote (Wednesday)
• Den Lennie's Lighting Masterclass
• Sony FS7
• Samyang Cine 135mm T/2.2
• The IABM pavillion
• JVC Super35 4K video camera
• Newtek Tricaster Mini

If you're there, drop me a tweet and say hi!

View from London ExCeL Docklands

SYNC is OUT NOW!

Watch the new futuristic sci-fi short from HaZ Dulull, that I had the pleasure of working on!

T minus 1 day til IBC Show!

Remember to keep up to date with the news and events by following this blog and on twitter - @plowman91! See you there!

New supercomputer is built!

I've been waiting months to finally have a computer that can handle the work that I do!! Previously working on laptops (which coincidentally die each year) I needed to step up the game to a high performance desktop which will expand my capabilities in not only video editing, but also motion graphics and compositing. I got myself an i7, NVIDIA 650TI 2Gb graphics card and all the rest to allow working speedily in Adobe applications (taking advantage of the mercury playback engines) and also allowing me to use Speedgrade and DaVinci Resolve for professional colour grading as the new graphics card is CUDA enabled!! My workflow speed will go through the roof!

Throughout all of January, the components dribbled in one by one, until it was only the PSU to come. Amaz0n buggered up my order, which I was expecting in 2-4 weeks. The order then got pushed back another 2-4 weeks, which I was furious about, so got on to Amazon support who clarified the 'warehouse' issue.. Everything is computerized these days so I don't understand how a major marketplace cannot get there warehouse stock levels and back order numbers right!!

I cancelled my order with Amazon, and put it through Scan instead, who delivered the Corsair 1000w PSU in only 2 days. Top service!

Being impatient (eager), I wanted to get the new computer going as quickly as possible so I begun assembling the components in the case. I had never done this before so the nerves were running riot, washing my hands every couple of minutes to make sure I wasn't getting grease or dirt on the motherboard. It was stressful, but I managed to get most of the bits it, bar the CPU and hard drives.

Yesterday Sam helped me put together the rest of the components and the cabling, and the building of my new workstation - could not have done it without him!

The blank canvas of my computer.

Now all I have to do is fill it up with my work and data, install Adobe and then I can get working!

Loving this right now

I managed to catch Zane Lowe's hottest record today, its from Gesaffelstein, and its bloody awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7YSNbq2KcQ

I talk to NHK about Super Hi-Vision at IBC 2013!

https://vimeo.com/75435793

I talk to the senior project manager at NHK research about their developments into Super Hi-vision technology since the London 2012 Olympics. Great updates include their use of HEVC to compress the video signal down to 85Mbps!

Even though 4K is just about on the horizon for cameras and broadcasting, the Future Zone featured NHK's 8K technology!