Douglas Cebik Visuals (dcebik.com), Photography, Videography, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Orange County, CA, Los Angeles, Southern California Photographer

Sorenson Spark Press: Verisilicon licenses Sorenson Spark Video codec

Douglas Cebik — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:46:01 +0000

I have closed another major licensing deal for Sorenson Media. The announcement was made public today, via the following press release.

This deal allows Verisilicon to optimize the Sorenson Spark video codec and offer it as part of their chipset offering, ultimately enabling a broad array of consumer electronic devices to play back video encoded in [...]

“House” Season Finale today, Filmed with Canon 5D Mark II

Douglas Cebik — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:29:09 +0000

For those HD-DSLR fans, skeptics, and fanatics: Tonights season finale of “House“, currently the most watched series (worldwide), was filmed entirely on Canon’s 5D Mark II, HD-DSLR.

Super Fast Computer for Video Editing

Douglas Cebik — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:31:46 +0000

I recently put together from scratch a high performance desktop PC after I quickly determined that buying a comparable machine was more than 2x the cost and still would not have many of the features I was looking for such as USB 3.0, (4.8 Gbps!) and SATA 3 (which has speeds of 6 Gbps), overclocking capability, [...]

Lenovo: Press Release: Sorenson Media: Sorenson Spark

Douglas Cebik — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:46:34 +0000

I have closed another major licencing deal with a top Computer OEM (Lenovo) for the Sorenson Spark Video Decoder. See the press release below.

http://www.sorensonmedia.com/news/?n=406

Sorenson Spark Video Decoder Included in New Lenovo Skylight Smartbook to Enable Playback of Full World of Internet Video

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Sorenson Spark, Internet’s Most Widely Used Video Decoder, Integrated in First ARM-based [...]

Riviera Magazine

Douglas Cebik — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:09:37 +0000

Riviera (OC edition) March 2010 has also published a advertisement for the Strand development using an Aerial photograph which I have taken. This is the same ad in published in Orange Coast Magazine. See below.

http://www.dcebik.com/20100318/orange-coast-magazine-photograph

Orange Coast Magazine Photograph

Douglas Cebik — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:47:30 +0000

One of my aerial photographs of the Strand development is published in this month’s (April 2010) Orange Coast Magazine on page 11. A scan of the ad with my photograph is below.

I took all of the aerial photographs used on the strand website.

Strand Orange County Advertisement with Photograph by Douglas Cebik

Canon 5D 24p Firmware NOW available

Douglas Cebik — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:20:49 +0000

This is the one everyone has been waiting for to enable 24p video framerates.

Here is the list of changes from Canon:

download it here:

Firmware Version 2.0.3 incorporates five enhancements to the movie function and a fix to the manual sensor cleaning function of the EOS 5D Mark II camera. 1. Adds or changes the following movie frame rates NTSC: 1920×1080:30 fps [...]

24p Firmware update coming to the Canon 5D Mark II

Douglas Cebik — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:27:13 +0000

Finally for all us Photographers using the Canon 5D Mark II DLRs to capture HD video, Canon has announced that a free firmware update, will be available for download this month. Finally in addition the the current supported framerates of 30fps, we will get 24p which is the framerate used by the motion picture industry. [...]

Canon Video Contest – The Story Beyond the Still

Douglas Cebik — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:26:03 +0000

Canon USA, has a ongoing Video contest, which was announced last month called “The Story Beyond the Still”.

More information about the contest can be found here: http://www.vimeo.com/groups/beyondthestill/

My submission for the first open Chapter is here: http://vimeo.com/groups/beyondthestill/videos/9388268

The Inheritance from Douglas Cebik.

My submission for Chapter 2: to the Canon – Vimeo HD Video contest entitled “Beyond the Still”

This chapter [...]

Samsung Press Release: Sorenson Media: Sorenson Spark

Douglas Cebik — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:13:42 +0000

Sorenson Media released the following press release today, which was picked up by FOX Media.

Note: I am the primary contact person. I work as a consultant for Sorenson Media, and this is one of the many Spark licensing deals I have successfully closed for Sorenson Media. Deals such as this bring the company significant revenue.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/technology/samsung-licenses-sorenson-spark-comprehensive-playback-internet-video-mobile/

http://www.sorensonmedia.com/news/?n=403

Samsung Licenses Sorenson Spark [...]