Panorama Tips for iPhoneography

Once you access the pano function option on your iPhone, it’s an addiction! Especially for international and adventure travel, pano capture will bring home your experience like no other image. (Read at bottom for link to explore our next iPhoneography workshop with Flying Colors. – not a Createasphere event) Making panos looks very easy – and […]

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Canon XA20 and XA25 take key steps towards Beyond AVCHD

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Earlier this week I published the Beyond AVCHD Manifesto. Simultaneously, I mentioned that the Canon XA20 and XA25 are the first professional AVCHD video cameras to take serious steps to comply with Beyond AVCHD. In this article, I’ll cover exactly what these two models have definitely done, what’s still unclear, and what’s still definitely missing […]

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Canon answers most of Tépper’s questions about XA20/XA25

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Recently, I sent a list of questions to Canon’s public relations department about the new XA20 and XA25 cameras. A couple of weeks later, I got answers. Most were excellent news; some were unclear; while some were bad news for the short term, although could possibly improve via a firmware update. TÉPPER asks: With SD […]

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Creative Options Abound In Dual Animated Canvases Release

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Digital Juice® has announced it is simultaneously releasing Animated Canvases™ Collection 21: Artistic Horizons and Animated Canvases Collection 22: Incipient Charges, with each available as either an Instant Download or boxed DVD product. Animated Canvases are subtle background animations that are designed to be the foundation for any video or motion graphics project. In these […]

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Shutterstock Offers Astounding Underwater Footage from Josh Jensen

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Shutterstock, leading provider of high-quality, royalty-free digital footage, is now offering imagery from Australia-based cameraman Josh Jensen and his company Undersea Productions. Undersea Productions specializes in filming marine life and underwater habitats. “Our eyes are always looking for unusual behavior or interaction between species,” Jensen explains. “We spent three seasons in Tonga to swim with […]

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Roto Brush Parameter Changes

As we mentioned yesterday, the Refine Edge tool is one of the most significant new tools added to After Effects CC (due to be released June 17). Refine Edge is built on top of the Roto Brush took, which was originally introduced in AE CS5. A side effect of this is that some parameter names […]

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Pocket Wizard Hypersync Improves

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I have been a big fan of Pocket Wizard's Hypersync ever since it came out.  In a nutshell, this utility allows shooting at faster sync speeds than the standard 1/250 with strobe packs.  Hypersync recalibrates the shutter/flash burst timing, allowing for much faster sync speeds.  Performance depends on the camera and flash system used.  Why […]

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