Light is used to create a mood. There is no bad light. Just the wrong light. Light is a funny thing. To be more precise, the photographers perception of light is a funny thing. I’ve noticed recently, many photographers look on light in terms that are very black and white (pun not intended). By that, […]
Coming late to the iPhone version of the rolling shutter meme, my favorite video was not the guitar string oscillation but the one on airplane propellers from DP Review, iPhone video enhanced by rolling shutter effect (via Adam Wilt, h/t to Reddit). This one comes from Jason Beutal, who explains it in detail on his blog in Image Aliasing […]
What a crazy second half we’re off to. Within our industry, we rarely if ever have seen the kind of furor that has been happening over the last several weeks. The blogosphere and twittersphere have been going crazy within our creative community. Recently, that’s been accentuated by Adobe’s unusual offer to encourage users of other […]
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A few months ago the folks at Anthro Technology Furniture asked us to give an extended road test to three of their products-the Anthro Elevate Wrap table, Vert© chair, and Zido adjustable cart. We put all three to work in real-world office and studio settings, and the overall experience has been a striking reminder that […]
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We’re campaigning. This is our button. You might not know this, but one of our motivations in launching the Sony Livewire vendor blog was to have a place on Pro Video Coalition where readers could have easy access to Sony downloads. On the right side of the Livewire home page there lives a series of […]
The diamond pixel pattern of Sony’s ClearVid CMOS sensor is featured on small-chip camcorders including the HXR-NX5U and HVR-Z5U. Physics can be a harsh taskmaster. It constantly forces image sensor designers to walk the line between high resolution (which requires smaller photosites for a given imager size) and high sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratio and exposure latitude […]
In a new training video in English and French, Colored Light Paths with 3D Stroke, Mattias Peresini (aka Mattrunks) shows the basics of Trapcode 3D Stroke. There were been a number of similar tutorials in days of iPod and graffiti yore, but they're harder to find now that the effect is not as popular. Tutorials by Brad Chmielewski (Animated […]
Boštjan Burger, a Slovenian photographer, has been ordered to remove 11,000 photos from his online website. Incredibly he has also been ordered by the Slovenian government to delete these photographs from his hard drives. According to the government the photos, which all show peoples faces, contravene Slovenian privacy laws. Boštjan specializes in enormous 360 degree […]
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As we mentioned earlier, we've been busy this year creating an extensive, multi-course video training series based on our popular beginner's book After Effects Apprentice. Each course has a selection of movies that are free for all to view; we're re-posting those videos here on PVC to make sure you don't miss them. This one […]
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Note: this is the third in a series featuring one After Effects script per week, now appearing at the beginning of each week. For an overview on scripts, check out the debut post. You are planning out an animation, or perhaps you’re at the 11th hour refining it for a deadline, and you realize that […]
