Single-sensor cameras fall into two camps: those that are sensitive to far red, and those that are sensitive to infrared. The Canon C300 is sensitive to far red, which means that IRND filters will work–and hot mirrors won’t. Come see the difference… RED cameras are the only cameras that are truly sensitive to a form […]
Month: July 2012
Is Your Digital Asset Management System Open for Business?
If your DAM is indeed open for business, are you sure it is being utilized? Whose responsibility is it to ensure it is being used? While trying to answer these philosophical questions, an organization could be losing time and money. One of the secrets to ensuring that your DAM is a success is to be […]
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Blackmagic Design Releases DaVinci Resolve 9 Public Beta for Mac, Windows and Linux
Blackmagic Design today announced the release of DaVinci Resolve 9 public beta, a major new update to the world’s most advanced color correction tool featuring a completely redesigned user interface to optimize workflow speed. DaVinci Resolve 9 public beta is now available for free download to existing full featured DaVinci Resolve customers, as well as […]
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PHILOSOPHY: On the Subject of Freebies
Everyone starts out working for free. That’s the only way those in the industry can find out whether you’re any good. At some point, though, it’s important to stop–or at least be more selective. Over the years I’ve shot a number of freebies. Early in my career I did this for experience: film school was […]
CAMERAS: Hands-on with the RED ONE of 1922
The Bell & Howell 2709 is a very old camera. In this case, the one I’m looking through turned 90 last May. It still works perfectly, something that I don’t think I’ll be able to say of many modern cameras in 10 or 20 years time. I don’t have anything against modern cameras–I like most […]
Last week in After Effects
Here’s the latest week or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old. A few more tutorials on Element 3D, the new 3D plug-in, popped up. David Biederbeck posted How to import Cinema 4D Model into Element 3d with separate layers. And Ronn Trevino posted Exporting from C4D to […]
Createasphere’s Executive Marketplace for Houses of Worship Wraps
Createasphere's Executive Marketplace concluded two days of purchasing and business networking for Houses of Worship (HoW) at the Embassy Suites Chicago-O'Hare Rosemont on July19th, following a similar event in Los Angeles in June. This was the Executive Marketplace's successful second year, and plans for 2013 will be confirmed soon.{C} The goal of Createasphere's Executive Marketplace […]
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Smoke, A Creative Tool: A Lighting Tutorial
In this Slanted Lens lighting tutorial we take a look at using smoke as a creative tool. I’m going to concentrate on using smoke to create a silhouette and to show sun-rays. When I shoot I often have a smoke machine on hand. When I shoot on location I always have one. Smoke gets me […]
Red Giant Adds New Support to Magic Bullet Denoiser II for Final Cut Pro 7 and Premiere Pro
Red Giant today released a new version of Magic Bullet Denoiser II that adds support for Apple Final Cut Pro 7 and Adobe Premiere Pro. With this new release, Denoiser II v1.3 provides filmmakers and editors access to powerful denoising tools directly in the editing timeline, and improves support for working with interlaced footage. Denoiser […]