Media Composer 101 – ADVANCED – Multicam Editing in v8.5

Media Composer 101 - ADVANCED - Multicam Editing in v8.5 2

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe takes a specific look at Multicam editing with the new Waveform Sync option, and how super easy it is to multicam edit, even if you have no matching timecode on any of your streams. […]

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Blackmagic Wants Your Next Live Broadcast To Be In 4K

Blackmagic Wants Your Next Live Broadcast To Be In 4K 3

4K live production for less than $3,000. For a limited time, Blackmagic has a pretty amazing deal on their ATEM Production Studio switcher and their HyperDeck Studio 12G. Is this a consolation prize for delayed cameras? […]

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Kicking the tires on Avid Media Composer 8.5

Kicking the tires on Avid Media Composer 8.5 5

Media Composer editors can rejoice with the update of Avid Media Composer to version 8.5. It’s a big release by Avid standards as there’s a number of important additions both in the video format world (HDR support) and the editorial features world (better trimming, waveform sync). Avid’s done a great job of making short videos […]

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The new EOS-1D X Mark II uses Dual Pixel AF

The new EOS-1D X Mark II uses Dual Pixel AF 6

I recently got the chance to test a EOS 70D DSLR, and this text was started then, but with the new flagship camera from Canon, EOS-1D X Mark II being announced next week, I decided to wait a bit longer to publish it, to see if the camera would use DPAF. Although it is not […]

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Media Composer 101 – What’s new in version 8.5

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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about the new features in the new 8.5 release of Avid Media Composer […]

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Boundary Warp, magic for panoramas

Boundary Warp, magic for panoramas 9

Boundary Warp is the new magic trick from Adobe, launched with the updates to Lightroom CC. The end of stitched panoramas with non-rectangular boundaries is near. If you create panoramas regularly, as I do, the joy of assembling images is always mixed with the pain of going through some of the problems usually caused by […]

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Olympus PEN-F: back to the 1960’s, with no 4K video

Olympus PEN-F: back to the 1960’s, with no 4K video 10

With a new 20MB sensor, apparently similar to the one used in Panasonic’s GX8, the Olympus PEN-F continues to forget 4K video on a model that, otherwise, has some interesting, although frightening new features inside. The Olympus PR people gave us multiple versions of what the PEN-F can be: Europeans wrote that “Olympus PEN-F: High […]

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