IBC 2015 is upon us, which means it’s time to start talking about the next SuperMeet, and this year is going to be special. The Eighth Annual Amsterdam SuperMeet is going to take place on September 13, 2015 and three time Oscar winning film editor Walter Murch will be the featured presenter. SuperMeet organizers Michael […]
Month: July 2015
Color Science, Explained (Part 2)
The transition from film to digital video has created a shift in the filmmaker’s relationship to color. […]
Media Composer 101 – ADVANCED – What is Transcoding? Part 1: Under The Hood
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe begins an in-depth look at Transcoding in Avid Media Composer. There’s a lot more to Transcoding then just compressing your media to native Avid files, and in this lesson, we’re going to look at what’s going on “under the hood” of all your “Linked To” media in your project! […]
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Canon ME20F-SH: a 4 million ISO video camera
If 4 million ISO of sensitivity grabbed your attention, then let’s add what this means: the new camera can capture Full HD video with a minimum subject illumination of less than 0.0005 lux. For reference, remember that with as little as 0.03 lux of illumination, or approximately the brightness of a crescent moon, it is […]
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Nokia OZO: the first VR camera for professionals
Nokia is turning their attention to Virtual Reality, and the OZO is their first step in that direction. Built for professional content creators, the OZO made its first appearance at an industry event in Los Angeles attended by representatives from major studios, production houses and media and technology companies. The camera was conceived at Nokia’s […]
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Embedding audio on the web, Facebook and sometimes even YouTube
As a video workflow specialist/consultant who is a purist and also extremely into audio-only production and distribution, I am constantly re-evaluating the best ways to distribute high-quality audio and have viewers play it on the web. My preferred methods are in constant evolution. Ahead you’ll see —and hear— my three preferred methods in different cases, […]
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Self-adjusting Title Backgrounds in Final Cut Pro X
This week on MacBreak Studio, we have a special guest visiting from the U.K.: Alex Gollner, AKA “Alex4D”. Alex has been a generous contributor to the Final Cut Pro X community since the beginning, sharing ideas and many free plugins that he has created. Today he dives into the world of publishing templates from Motion […]
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Hacking Alexa’s Rec 709 LUT into a Sony FS7/F5/F55
A new, free app gives us the power to mix and match LUTs—even between cameras! This is what happened when I crammed an Alexa Rec 709 3D LUT into an F55… […]
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Video Editor: A job on the edge of extinction
I know this post has a clickbait sounding title, and for that I apologize, but I’m not writing this for click throughs or ad impressions. This is about the things that software can do now and guessing at what it will do in the very, very near future. Right now, software “reads” articles and emails, […]
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Smallest 4K MFT camera for drones on Kickstarter
When in June we published one article about the “The Smallest Micro Four Thirds 4K Camera for Drones” the camera from Chinese company ImagineVision was not yet on Kickstarter. It entered the crowdfunding platform afterwards, to achieve its goals and even surpass them in a few days. With 18 days to go before the crowdfunding […]
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