ART OF THE CUT: BLADE RUNNER 2049 with Joe Walker, ACE

ART OF THE CUT: BLADE RUNNER 2049 with Joe Walker, ACE 1

I have interviewed Joe Walker, ACE, three times previous to this (in addition to hanging out once with him for a trendy lunch in LA this summer while he was finishing up Bladerunner 2049.) I hope you have time to dig into his previous wisdom from his work on the films 12 Years a Slave […]

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Creative Cloud About Menu Easter Eggs

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Okay, I’m going to sound like a complete Adobe nerd when I say this, but I look forward to every new release of the Creative Cloud apps for the obvious reason of the update to the apps, but I also look forward to it for a very different reason altogether.  The Easter Eggs.  If you […]

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Final Cut Pro X 10.4 announced and demoed at the FCPX Creative Summit

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“Later this year…”#FCPX pic.twitter.com/H9qoEzEw2L — Chris Fenwick 🇺🇸 (@chrisfenwick) October 27, 2017 If you happen to be in Cupertino at the Final Cut Pro X Creative Summit then you were the first to see the brand new Final Cut Pro X 10.4. I wasn’t there so I learned about it via Twitter. If you’re surprised by this […]

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Review: RØDE Broadcaster, the voice microphone that challenges conventional wisdom

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The general consensus is that in order to reject background noise (especially with acoustically untreated rooms), it behooves you to use a dynamic microphone, not a condenser one. The RØDE Broadcaster microphone’s 1” condenser proves to be a worthy exception to that general consensus. In addition, it allows better high-frequency coverage than most dynamic mics, […]

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – BCC 11’s Advanced Avid Workflow

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In this Let’s Edit with Media Composer tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about BCC 11’s new Media Composer workflow. In the past, editors were limited to working with BCC effects in their composites. Now, with the release of version 11, the development team has updated the effects workflow for BCC to allow Sapphire 11 effects […]

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MegaBots’ Giant Fighting Robots Web Series Captured on Blackmagic Micro Cinema Cameras

Micro Cinema Camera

I love hearing news about small cameras stepping up into big rolls.  Today, Blackmagic shared a story about Micro Cinema Cameras, one of my favorite little cameras, and a URSA Mini 4.6K camera was used by DP Scott Sorensen to shoot a web series for the US-based robotics company MegaBots, Inc. MegaBots uses cutting-edge robotics technology to […]

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After Effects: revisiting feature requests from 2008

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June 2008 seems like a long time ago now. Adobe had only just released After Effects CS3 and I was mostly working on a G5 PowerMac. Four gigabytes of RAM seemed like an awful lot. George W Bush was the US President and the Apple iPhone was only 1 year old – a month later […]

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When exact 24 fps beats 23.976… and when it doesn’t

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Nine years have passed since I published When 25p beats 24p…. In fact, that was my very first article accepted in ProVideo Coalition magazine back in 2008. Things have changed since then, and the most compelling reasons to shoot and edit 25p even in an NTSC or ex-NTSC region (despite possible distribution in another framerate) […]

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Easy, fast and secure media file transfer–the Bigfoot of post

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I have a long list of “It’s 2017, how come we haven’t figured out how to…” questions. Topping that list (alongside why Siri still can’t look up a phone number for me without mistakenly calling someone to whom I owe money instead) is the issue of transferring video files securely across the web. There typically seems […]

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Sony α7R III, the new high-res, fast mirrorless

Sony α7R III, the new high res, fast mirrorless

The new full-frame mirrorless model from Sony offers a 42.4 MP high-resolution sensor, 10 fps continuous shooting, fast and precise AF performance, all in a compact body. Thanks to an evolutionary leap in image processing power and efficiency, the new α7R III combines a high-resolution 42.4 MP back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS image sensor with impressive […]

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