Editor Mark Livolsi, ACE, started out as an apprentice editor on “Wall Street” (1987), moving up through the ranks for more than a decade, getting his first job as editor on 2001’s “Vanilla Sky” directed by Cameron Crowe, then cutting a series of well known comedies, like “Wedding Crashers,” and movies like “The Devil Wears […]
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It might surprise you to know that I still own and use a multi-region DVD player to be able to play foreign movies in the US. With most commercial DVDs, it’s much more than just a derived PAL/NTSC standards issue. More importantly, it’s a poorly-conceived geo-DRM scheme, which unfortunately doesn’t even incorporate any expiration date […]
Panoramas are something that became second nature to me since digital arrived. The possibility to create, with digital stitching, something that would take hours in the darkroom opened new frontiers of exploration. But showing panoramas on the Web takes away, many times, the grandeur of the panorama created. I’ve used panoramas in my photography since […]
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I made it a point to drop by the Boris FX booth to have a chat with Ross Shain of Imagineer Systems. At this point it’s old news that Boris Continuum Complete has integrated mocha planar tracking making it an incredibly powerful effects tool beyond what BCC could already do. As part of the upcoming […]
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Illya Friedman is the President of Hot Rod Cameras in Hollywood, Los Angeles. He’s a great guy with a terrific company that sells cameras and production equipment. They also do GoPro mods and I used a couple of his modded GoPros with Entaniya fisheye 220° lenses for my NAB 2106 VR reports. Hot Rod Cameras […]
Tims Johnson, CEO and Co-owner of Blacklist Digital talking VR Production and Post. Tims (yes he does have a ‘s’ at the end of his first name) is a very cool guy who has been involved in designing and developing the company’s Blackmagic based VR camera rig. Not only does Tims and his crew rent […]
The Padcaster VERSE is not absolutely new, but the next step on the original Padcaster, created to transform an iPad into an all-in-one mobile production studio. The VERSE will work with multiple systems, meaning if you change from your iPhone to an Android tablet you can still use the same Padcaster VERSE. Josh Apter is […]
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At NAB 2016, Blackmagic announced the new URSA Studio Viewfinder, a 7” studio viewfinder with variable tension mounting points, tally, external controls and more turning the Blackmagic URSA Mini 4.6K and 4K cameras into studio cameras. Think Blackmagic Studio Camera software in the URSA Minis plus a great professional viewfinder. Once you add a B4 […]
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FXHOME released its free all-in-one video editing and visual effects software HitFilm 4 Express, a product based on Hitfilm Pro 4. Aimed mainly at YouTube creators, this free software seems capable and feature rich, and a useful resource for anyone. Hitfilm advocates include YouTube superstars and indie filmmaking experts like Freddie Wong, Film Riot, and Corridor Digital. There […]
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