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Thursday, 30 July 2015

3DX Point Memory 1000x faster than SSDs (NAND) and 10x denser

Look at your SmartPhone. Impressive, isn't it? Just like Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, Intel and Micron - two behemoths of the microchip fabrication world - landed an impressive blow to the status quo across the memory storage board especially Random Access Memory (RAM) that has held out since 1989.

Now pity your SmartPhone, to paraphrase Kenshiro's famous quip before he slays his enemies "You're already obsolete. You just don't know it yet." That's right. Your computers. Your tablets. Even those that you are going to buy next holiday season. All obsolete.

Why? Because the future is now 3DX Point memory. Memory 1000 times faster than the SSD that is making your current desktop fly at insane speeds at the moment, is like comparing a kids bobsled to an AA-Sidewinder missile. There will be a good 3 orders of magnitude difference. Check the figures. That's not hyperbole or an over-the-top exaggerated assertion. In fact, it's slightly underexaggerated: A bobsled could go a decent 20km/hr but multiplying that figure by 1000, you'd be hard pressed finding a sidewinder reaching 20,000km/hr folks. It is far, far slower.

So now, what does this new technology mean when it hits? Well, this is a filming and video blog... so the ramifications for film and video editing is ridiculous.

UTTERLY RIDICULOUS.


Saturday, 4 July 2015

Strapping expensive cameras to cars


Get hooked on suctioncups and things as you watch this great how-to video from the guys over at Film Riot and Triune Films. Take home points: 1. Get insurance. 2. Get insurance. 3. Use other people's gear. But seriously, filming at 3am without a permit is perhaps the route most indy film makers would have to go. There are a few caveats with that route but all in all on a tight budget you can end up with some amazing epic footage and hopefully no broken gear.