This year was the 50th anniversary of the International Broadcast Convention and it was as lively and inspiring as ever! Over 57,000 visitors descended on Amsterdam, and enjoyed the networking, discovery and education of the show, day and night. Even the drizzle and wind could not dampen our spirits. For me the stand out trends…
The 3rd IBC Colorist Mixer was held on Saturday 10th September at a fantastic canal side venue Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. People arrived by bicycle, boat, scooter, tram, some of us even walked! The weather during IBC was the best I’ve witnessed, so people arrived in good spirits, looking forward to a fantastic night. The…
The 2nd IBC Mixer was held on Saturday 12 September at Zeppos in central Amsterdam. It was a great night made possible by the sponsors. Colorists and friends gathered from all over the globe for food, drinks and for the first time, the Mixer quiz! After 10 multiple choice questions, a sudden death shootout, then a…
The most exciting thing I saw was the Free Viewpoint TV (FTV) holodeck. Yes! The technology that introduced Princess Leia to Luke Skywalker in1977 now exists in our own galaxy and can project holographic images right in front of you. I would say 3-D images but that term has been so badly abused and confused…
IBC was a really great show this year. I was demonstrating the Arri Look Creator with Resolve on the Arri booth. We had allot of people on the booth and everything went great. The big news at the show was of course Iridas being acquired by Adobe. This probably means that SpeedGrade will most likely…
10 years ago things use to be so much simpler… As a Colorist visiting IBC you only had 2 choices in color correction, DaVinci 2K or Pandora Pogle. We would spend ½ day looking at each, another day looking at Telecine machines. We all used Sony CRT monitors so nothing new to look at there…
This is a general overview movie from me about Resolve, recorded at the SuperMeet in Amsterdam last week in front of 10,000 people!! Click on Movie #4 Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve
A big show this year, and we all experienced the rush. In fact it was the second busiest IBC ever with 48,164 attendees from 140 countries. (The busiest show was 2008 with about 5% more visitors) The show floor was also bigger (100, 000 sq meters) as they opened a new thirteenth hall. In all…
Welcome to our first IBC blog. For those of you that do not know IBC is the 2nd biggest film and TV trade show in the world, and is held in Amsterdam every September. I was demonstrating for DFT the film scanning company who make the Spirit telecine and Kevin was driving the Film Master…
