Imagine being able to watch your favorite sporting events LIVE and for FREE! (Not having to pay for cable…)
Most sports enthusiasts are enamored by their favorite team(s) but when it comes to watching them play, fans have limited viewing options because of the commercial broadcast and cable tv agendas. Channels like ESPN 3 and Verizon’s on demand streaming provide some mobility to audiences, allowing them to pick up their mobile device and plug in on the go.
Interestingly, an industry that has little support from the mainstream public sector and very little Fortune 500 influence has, in my opinion, the most accessible broadcasting experience. The Action Sports industry, particularly surfing, allows audiences to tune in to their events from all over the world right from the users’ mobile devices. World Tour surfing sponsors Billabong, Quiksilver, Rip Curl, and Hurley invested in native app development which is proving to be a monumental success because the connectivity to its audiences is unparalleled in sports.
The NFL, MLB and every other major sports organization should take a page out of the ASP World Tour’s book because each ASP World Tour event has a unique landing page that includes live streaming, photo galleries, heats on demand, social integration, plus more. That’s not to say that every event needs a unique page but the major ones like the World Series could benefit from such an on-the-go experience as that.
Simply put, it’s an incredible time to be a surfing enthusiast because the level of competition is at an unprecedented high and the accessibility is the best in all of sports.
Check out the landing page designs, technology and download the most recent and current event app from Rip Curl.
Over 5,000 developers traveled to one spot to spent a week learning the latest tech from one of the most biggest platforms. It was the meeting of the tribes, Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference.
WWDC 2011 was a success! Armed with Canon 7D’s, we managed to shoot over 2,000+ photos.
Check out the pictures on Pedro’s Flickr Page
After a few weeks of our return, we’ve put together a short video of our experience using Final Cut Pro X. This was a great opportunity to test out some of the DSLR features in the new version of Final Cut.
Our video was shot with 2 Canon 7Ds, 50mm f/1.2, 10mm f/2.8, 20mm f/1.8
Based on what was shown at the Super Meet, we shot test clips for testing features:
Image Stabilization
Rolling Shutter
Color Enhance
Color Match
Audio Enhance and Speed Ramp
Pedro spent the whole day editing this short from scratch to fully benchmark FPCX as a tool. Besides the obvious crashes and bugs, He was able to give it a full nine hours of solid editing. We think it’s performance was suffice and the magnetic timeline really does help in real world workflows.
The UI has been completely refined. New behaviors and metaphors feel like they’re inherited from iOS or Lion. It feels much more natural, the most commonly used tools are quickly accessible. We especially enjoy the subtle refinements like tiny switches, tool tip popovers, sliding-panel style attributes and the inverted color adjustment tabs. Window panels have a nice dark shade of grays and highlight are shades of bright and deep navy blue. A subtle orange gradient grows/shrinks in the timeline that indicates remaining render time.
Switches reveal contextual content inside of iOS like popover
Render indicators are subtle, clean and intuitive
Items like the Color Adjustment panel animate and slide left and right like iOS.
Auto saving your projects will be hard getting use to, but its great to know when it crashes, your last modification is saved. We can anticipate future updates like project versioning.
Overall its a great update with massive potential to be the next standard tool in the industry. You can be assured all of our future content will be edited in FCPX. Thank you for watching, don’t forget to subscribe!
The death of the laptop optical disk drive has come here at the Pixil Studios. The Data Doubler converts the matchbook pros optical drive into an internal storage drive. This offers more storage for other large uncompressed project files. We definitely recommend upgrading to your macbook pro with the Data Doubler. If you don’t need the DVD, this allows your to storage bigger content without having to plugin external drives.
Using the Canon 7D for time lapse photography was a great experiment. We spend the last 3 days shooting various tests and we’d like to share our experience. Our test shot were filmed with the Canon 7D. Using 10mm fisheye sigma f2.8, 70-200mm f2.8, and 20mm f1.8 sigma lens. Time lapse remote: JJC-TM-A series remote.
The JJC-TM-A series remote has a simple interface and is easy to setup. In our example, we’ve setup the shutter interval to 5 seconds which basically means a photography will be taken every 5 seconds.
Here are a range of values we set our camera settings to. Note: UV filters and polarizers were used with the 200mm and 20mm. The shot location was behind the Pixil Studios, in sunny West Palm Beach, Florida.
