Here’s part of the last few weeks or so of assorted After Effects tutorials, tips, and scripts & plug-ins new and old. Heller Studios posted a free project and AE Tutorial – 3D Earth HUD, with expressions to make it CC Sphere camera aware (still too obvious for CS Next feature requests). This was covered […]
When the original Elinchrom Quadra came out a few years back, I was very excited. The Quadra was a small 400 watt pack that used Elinchrom’s popular Skyport wireless system. If you were a speedlight shooter and looking to step into a flash pack system, this was a great choice. Wedding shooters loved the pack, […]
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While recently clicking around and updating my RSS feeds in the good ‘ole Google Reader I happened upon this long, long list of Adobe blogs. Adobe is a big company so it’s no surprise they have a lot of people blogging about their various corners of the company but the size of that list is […]
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In about two years time, I think, the overwhelming majority of 3D character animation content will not be made by professional 3D artists using professional, high end software like Maya. 3D character creation and animation are poised to become as accessible and ubiquitous as digital cameras and non-linear video editing. There are too many developers […]
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Panasonic made their presence at the Entertainment Technology Expo known by showing off two of their most recent additions at the show. Steve Cooperman talked to us about the AG-HPX600 camcorder as well as the BT-LH2170 HD Monitor, both of which have a number of fantastic features. Check Out Two Recent Additions to the Panasonic […]
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This review will be short and sweet, just like its subject: Induro’s Hi-Hat is a stubby little tripod that brings your camera down to earth with more flexibility and versatility than a traditional hi-hat or low-hat can offer, while still allowing the traditional mount-it-on-a-board use that filmmakers are familiar with. Hi-Hats? A quick introduction: hi-hats […]
Chinese photo-equipment company Benro has been making tripods and heads under its own name for the past decade. At NAB 2012 they introduced a new line of kits with fluid heads for video use, and these started shipping in October. Benro’s US distributor sent me three representative kits, with both aluminum and carbon fiber sticks […]
At Createasphere's Entertainment Technology Expo Joel Ordesky, Product Marketing Manager at Sony Electronics for the F65, talked to us about the F65 and explained how and why it is Sony's premiere camera. He talks through many of its features and shows how content progresses all the way from the camera to the screen. Sony – […]
Ok, so last week’s episode pushed to the beginning of this week, and now here we are with this week’s episode just making it by end of the week. Today, Steve Martin from Ripple Training tells me all about the new component-level audio editing feature in the Final Cut Pro X 10.0.6 update. Some good […]
FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Optical Devices Division is introducing two new high-performance FUJINON lenses: the PL 85-300 Cabrio lens (model ZK3.5×85) and the XA99x8.4BESM ultra-wide field production lens. The PL 85-300, a PL Mount zoom lens in the Premier PL digital cinematography family, capitalizes on the popularity and success of its predecessor, the PL19-90mm Cabrio […]
