I couldn’t resist making a couple new year’s resolutions, especially since they both have to do with shooting in new resolutions, so here they are:

• For video, I’m going to shoot and edit in High Definition.
• For photography, I’m switching over to shoot in the RAW format

Actually, I shot video in High Definition for most of 2006, so that’s not such a new venture, but I’ve only edited that footage in Standard Definition. I’ve just upgraded my editing station, though, and finally have the horsepower needed to push those HD pixels, so I’m going to take the plunge on my next few projects and see how it goes. If I get really ambitious, I’ll sift back through 2006 footage and edit something into HD from that material.

Regarding shooting photos in the RAW format, I’ve just upgraded my photo software to Apple’s Aperture, so I feel like I finally have software which can manage that format. I’ve been wanting to shoot in RAW ever since purchasing a Canon 20D a year or so ago, but, again, was feeling like my software solution wasn’t quite robust enough to handle it.

It feels good to step up to using higher resolutions in my work. I’ll post again as I begin to explore these new workflows and log how things go. Let me know if you have any experience in making the plunge to either HD or RAW.