Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/16039
Rs Looking ahead, he forecasts that Canon’s EOS product line will “continue to expand and push the state of the art in all areas.” He points out that the 5D Mark II has had at least four major firmware upgrades with significant video updates that introduced “video-related functionality that wasn’t there before.We’ll see that kind of thing plus more in our future products.” PLURALEYES With HDSLR production on the rise, software developers have intro- duced tools to facilitate post production with the footage. When Singular Software (www.singularsoftware.com) launched its flagship Digital Jungle’s Da Vinci suite and digital cinema theater: Dennis Ho says, “Our job is to deal with the capabilities and limitations of the cameras,” regardless of the format. See page 24 for details. PluralEyes product at NAB 2009, the developer expected customers to use it for traditional multi-camera production and dual-system audio employing its workflow automation tools for analyzing media content and automatically synchronizing audio and video-clip sequences. But the fast and easy-to-use PluralEyes attracted the attention of new HDSLR users, and Singular Software followed up its initial Apple Final Cut Pro version with support for Sony Vegas Pro six months later.A version supporting Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and CS5 is now in beta. Its sister plug-in, DualEyes, runs as a standalone application for editors using Avid and other editing systems. “It was a bit of a happy accident,” recalls Singular Software president/CEO Bruce Sharpe.“It turned out that PluralEyes had the feature set HDSLR users need.When the 5D came out, it took the world by storm with its beautiful pictures; professionals just loved the video. But it didn’t take long for them to realize the limitations of the camera audio and ask,‘What do we do about it?’ Through our marketing and influential bloggers, HDSLR users latched onto the value of recording audio separately, and there we were.” Due to release in the third quarter 2010, PluralEyes 1.2 for Final Cut Pro is a major free upgrade with “a lot of new features especially for HDSLR video users,” Sharpe promises.“When we first developed PluralEyes we were think- ing of long-form recording, but people are doing much shorter recording, too or shooting indie films with lots of short takes so they end up with a large number of clips.The new version of PluralEyes automatically replaces the audio within a clip and both puts them in a new timeline and makes merged clips in the browser. It’s as if you had good camera audio to begin with. “We have also paid a lot of attention to clock drift,” he notes.“Cameras usually have very good timing, but audio recorders aren’t necessarily de- signed to have super-accurate clocks. If they’re a bit off and you sync to a very stable video stream, it matters.So we’ve added features to correct that.” www.postmagazine.com September 2010 • Post 19