Comments on: Ask Matt: Essential Gadgets

By: Akhil Sasidharan

Akhil Sasidharan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:06:25 +0000

“You zoom with your feet.”
One awesome tip there, that works just great!
Love your photos!

By: Drew Strojny

Drew Strojny — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:34:54 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. Great work on the video Michael!

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:00:28 +0000

Hey Patrick. You were right about the 2 cameras. I had an 85mm lens for the close ups on one, and a 17-35mm at about 20-25mm on the other. The cameras were Canon 5D Mark IIs, the lenses Nikons. In principle you could get a similar effect with one camera if you were to output your video at 720p (like this one) but shoot at 1080p (same), as this would give you a bit of latitude for reframing the footage without pixelation.

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:56:12 +0000

Matt’s spot on – I shot the interview with a couple of Canon 5D2′s (although both were sporting Nikon glass)

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:40:26 +0000

You’ll have to ask Michael Pick, he edited this one.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:14:57 +0000

I didn’t shoot it Michael Pick did I believe using the Canan DSLR.

By: janetti !

janetti ! — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:04:23 +0000

I too love my mouse. It’s tiny because it folds in half which makes it easy to travel with. Totally essential.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:07:17 +0000

I have a quick technical question about the editing of this video.

How do you make the zoom-out transition effect near the 39th second of the footage. Have you filmed yourself, Matt, with 2 cameras, or has this transition been done in your editing software?

Thanks for helping me. I am thinking about doing the same thing here, but I am a newbie.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:53:38 +0000

Ahh another iPhone user , I soon will be a iPod touch user .

Glad to know you are using Windows 7, and the Kindle ha its almost like CNET is everywhere.

By: Drew Strojny

Drew Strojny — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:54:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing the video Matt.

Random question: What camcorder did you use to film this segment? Or did you use the D3S?

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:06:33 +0000

Nope it works great with my Windows 7 laptop.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:51:45 +0000

There’s always Skribit! haha /shameless plug

By: Wayne Sutton

Wayne Sutton — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:35:31 +0000

Nice Matt, I’m holding out for the Apple tablet that will be an ebook reader or I would get a kindle too. I know what you mean on the bluetooth mouse. I purchased a Targus mouse the other day but I really want a magic mouse. You’re still traveling with your windows laptop? Nice Apple plug in the video though. See you at SXSW 2010?

Wayne

By: Bats0711

Bats0711 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:28:12 +0000

So the bluetooth and windows are truly not compatible in a way! It’s a joke in my house that the bluetooth mouse we have doesn’t work because I touched it! I’m so happy to hear that others have that problem too!

By: Joanna Penn

Joanna Penn — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:55:51 +0000

Great video Matt – so lovely to hear you talk when I’ve been using your software for a while now. I am also an Apple iPhone and Kindle convert. The Kindle is now available internationally, but we don’t get all the books you get in the US. Hopefully the publishing world will continue to catch up in 2010!

Have a great holiday! Joanna

By: ocube

ocube — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:52:48 +0000

Never tried kindle but started using Stanza on iPhone, brilliant app! Getting back into reading as well…

By: Nile

Nile — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:29:41 +0000

Just a thought on this – Why not pop in a separate submit/ contact form, and put it to filter to a specific address, or depending on your popmail client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc….) you can also filter by title to a folder. Or a submit that sends to a database in case you might not get the submissions via email (hey…sometimes emails do get eaten… kind of like the sock dilemma when washing laundry. o.0)

By: Maui

Maui — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:38:43 +0000

Mouse. lol. Yes, I agree completely. I don’t need iPhone as I am always near a computer

By: Becca

Becca — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:40:05 +0000

Dang, I guess I missed the survey!

Why don’t you categorize them into “Tech-related”, “Travel”, etc.?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:07:08 +0000

There was a survey but I need a better way to manage the questions.

By: Alex Karasyov

Alex Karasyov — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:52:39 +0000

How about telling us about your favorite books?

By: Becca

Becca — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:41:22 +0000

PS Is there an “Ask Matt” section where people get to submit questions?

By: Becca

Becca — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:39:42 +0000

I want a Kindle so badly!

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:08:35 +0000

And the even more insane low-light abilities! It’s about two stops better at equivalent ISO, from what I saw.