Filmmaker Peter Jackson has recently performed a very public experiment in releasing The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at 48 frames per second (also known as “HFR” for High Frame Rate). Some movie lovers, members of the press, and even other filmmakers have unfortunately deemed it a reluctantly qualified failure; Vincent Laforet wrote a particularly insightful […]
In my last article Progressive Posing, I covered the Two-Thirds view and the Profile view. Referring back to that article, once you have achieved positioning the couple you are now able to easily change lens and create a full length image at ease anytime and anyplace. This is why I call it Progressive Posing. Now, […]
My latest obsession is trying to match reflectance values with IRE values to create a “Zone System for video.” This is both easy to do and impossible, so click through if you'd like to see how far I've gotten… First, if you don't know what the Zone System is, take a few minutes and learn […]
If you missed our live show last week, you can now catch it below. Steve Martin from Ripple Training and I chat about Final Cut Pro X. Normally we spend the bulk of the show answering questions, but we had a technical glitch (that we discovered after the show) whereby folks were unable to sign […]
