Apple is the most flexible of all computer manufacturers in the USA with its wonderful policy of offering all of the Apple computers with whichever keyboard the customer wants with a new BTO (built-to-order) computer purchase. Well, I should say almost all of them. The fact is that when ordering a BTO Mac from Apple […]
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Whether they are planning to edit video with software from Adobe, Apple, or Avid, the new Mac Mini with Thunderbolt has become the preferred platform for many people, including several of my consulting clients who are tired of waiting for new MacPros to be released and can’t stand the glare from the ultra-glossy iMac. The […]
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Have you, like ourselves, paid significant sums to get a new website built, only to find that your traffic drops off and you just don’t get as many live inquiries as before? Don’t blame the economy! Get wise about what is happening – or not happening – inside your website. It’s been only recently that […]
Here’s another video in our FreshDV Gear In 60 Seconds series that quickly shows how I store and travel with the SmallHD DP6 field monitor and it’s associated accessories. Watch below. GearIn60Sec_smallhd_case.mov For more info on how I use the DP6 on-set, see this blog post. […]
Premiere Pro has a full complement of tonality and color correction tools including about 40 tonality and color correction video effects and four vector and waveform scopes. Most video editors gaze upon all those possibilities and end up choosing the path of least resistance: automated effects. As for scopes…forget about it. Who can make heads […]
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As I mentioned several months ago, I've been a quest to find a lighter-weight but still high-quality monopod/tripod and head combination to help offset my penchant for bringing along ever-heavier lenses while hiking. One obvious line of enquiry would be a carbon-fiber monopod or tripod. Well, it so happens Manfrotto generously loaned me one of […]
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Many of the affordable pro audio interfaces that are available on the market have a maximum of two balanced microphone inputs, and few of them include hardware-based limiting, compression, or gating. Among the special features of Roland's OCTA-CAPTURE is the fact that it contains 10 total audio inputs, of which 8 are balanced microphone inputs. […]
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Kessler and Zacuto are proud to present the second episode in our three part web series The Great Camera Shootout 2011. According to the film’s director, Steve Weiss, they used a state of the art chart with twenty various grey patches. As each camera shoots the chart, their footage is then analyzed by software to […]
Andrew Devis and Karl Soule have both been creating excellent video tutorials about color correction and color grading recently, so I thought that it would be useful to gather links to them together in one place for convenience. Andrew’s tutorials, especially, go far beyond just showing the UI controls in a specific piece of software. […]
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We’re going through our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects 5th Edition (CMG5) and pulling out a few “hidden gems” from each chapter. These will include essential advice for new users, plus timesaving tips that experienced users may not be aware of. One of the most fun areas to explore in After Effects is […]
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