A very helpful overview of Star Trek’s classic transporter effect. D. Eric Franks shares some great tips and tricks how you can create your own Transporter Effect.

Eric has posted several Star Trek Transporter tutorials on his web site Videopia.org.

• Sony Vegas (text & illustrations)
• Adobe After Effects (text & illustrations)
• Apple Final Cut Pro + paint program of your choice(text only, draft procedure)
  
• Adobe Premiere + paint program of your choice (text & illustrations)
• Traveling Mattes and Masks (Photoshop, Gimp or any image editing app – need this to create mask for Premiere and FCP tutorials)

The real thing starts this week:

One Pixel, more pixels and even more pixels. Sony did announce a new 35mm full size CMOS sensor with 24.81 million effective pixels. The new CMOS image sensor is designed to meet the increasing requirement for rapid image capture and advanced picture quality within (professional) digital SLR cameras.

From the press announcement:

1. High picture quality in 35mm full size image sensor with 24.81M effective pixels
2. “Column-Parallel A/D Conversion method” achieves high S/N and high-speed imaging
   CDS/PGA(24dB)Circuit (PGA: Programmable Gain Amplifier)
   12bit-AD Converter on chip
   Diversified readout mode
   All-pixel scan mode 6.3 frame/s (12bit)
   Window readout
3. High-speed digital output (12 channel parallel LVDS output)