Andy Stout

Andy Stout

Andy has spent over two decades writing about all aspects of the broadcast and film industries for a variety of high-profile industry publications on both sides of the Atlantic. During that time the industry has moved from 4:3 SD to 16:9 SD to HD and now on to 4K HDR. He's getting kind of curious to see where it goes next.

Sony’s next PlayStation will feature 8K games

Published in Technology & Computing
Same logo, definitely not the same hardware. Sony's new PlayStation is going to be insanely powerful

This is significant: the next iteration of one of the world’s highest profile tech gadgets, the Sony PlayStation, is going to feature 8K support when it’s released next year.

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NAB 2019: NewTek adds Tricaster features & more

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V2 of Tricaster's Prime Access supports multiple digital aspect ratios

As Brian Olson, VP of Product Management at NewTek admits, the Vizrt purchase of the company was probably the biggest news of the whole show at NAB 2019. But there was a lot more to its offering than just that.

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NAB 2019: Less is more with Resolve 16

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Close up of the URSA Mini Pro G2

Blackmagic Design's Technical Sales Director, Craig Heffernan, takes us through some of the new features in both Resolve 16 and the recently announced on the NAB2019 showfloor.

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Blackmagic confirms ongoing support for Fusion with Fusion 16 Studio

Published in Post & VFX
The Resolve version of Fusion is good; but for serious VFX work you need the standalone one

Blackmagic Design had so much going on at NAB that it was easy to overlook the fairly major overhaul it’s made to its standalone VFX product, .

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RØDE’s new Wireless GO: very small and very inexpensive

Published in Audio
RØDE’s new Wireless GO: $199 gets you a lot of mic in a small form factor

One of the potential stand out products announced in the run up to NAB was, in fact, one of the smallest. Say hello to the new RØDE Wireless GO mic system.

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NewTek and Vizrt unveil NDI 4

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Now we are 4: NDI 4 adds multi-cam editing and more

Pretty much the first act undertaken by NewTek under the gaze of new owners Vizrt has been the announcement of NDI 4, which adds an impressive range of new features into the IP production mix.

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Canon launches Sumire Prime series of 7 PL lenses

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No shrinking violets: the new PL-Mount Sumire Primes from Canon

Canon is having a very active build up to NAB, with its latest announcement introducing the new Sumire Primes; PL-mount, full-frame Compact Cine Primes with what’s billed as a new creative cinematic look.

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Atomos unlocks the Panasonic Lumix S1

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As part of a full shooting rig, the Lumix S1 / Ninja V combo is a nicely balanced one

Atomos has previous form when it comes to helping unlock features in Panasonic kit, and is doing it once more by unlocking 4Kp60 10-bit 422 recording over HDMI on the .

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ARRI's LF Mini: Big sensor, big pixels, in an impossibly small package

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The new ARRI ALEXA MINI LF: Large Format, Mini Body

ARRI has confirmed the recent rumours regarding a Mini version of last year’s ALEXA LF with the announcement of the ALEXA Mini LF due to shop this summer.

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Huawei’s latest P30 Pro smartphone has a 5x optical zoom

Published in Technology & Computing
Combine two of the Huawei cameras together and the company claims a 10x lossless zoom

Having first gazumped Samsung with the best foldable prototype on display at MWC 2019 last month, Huawei has now raised the bar impressively when it comes to the smartphone camera with the new P30 Pro.

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Epic’s Unreal Engine just keeps getting better

Published in Technology & Computing
Stunning realtime imagery: and we've not even got to the ray-tracing yet

Unreal Engine 4.22 will ship next month and include ray-tracing for the first time. The results are absolutely stunning.

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RED Ranger is available now for rental

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All-in-one but not available to buy: the new RED Ranger is now shipping to rental houses worldwide

RED has confirmed that its new 8K all-in one camera system, the RED Ranger, is now shipping to its authorised rental houses worldwide.

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