The First Ever Final Cut Pro X Creative Summit will take place in San Jose, California, on June 26-28, 2015. The conference consists of three full days of sessions and presentations (June 26-28), preceded by one afternoon of warm up sessions on Thursday, June 25. The conference agenda is a perfect blend of technical step-by-step […]
Whether you’re working on documentaries, reality television, corporate videos, or any of a number of situations where you have talent being interviewed on-camera, you’ve probably run into this scenario: The talent is giving a long speech, perhaps unrehearsed. In the middle of that speech is a really good sound bite you’d like to pull out […]
Panasonic, an industry leader in reliable and innovative mobile computers since 1996, today at the 2014 International CES announced the U.S. availability of the Toughpad™ 4K UT-MA6 tablet, the performance model of the world’s first* 20-inch tablet with a 4K resolution display. Featuring an Intel® Core™ i7-3687U vPro™ processor with an NVIDIA® Quadro® K1000M GPU, […]
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Those old enough to remember their shock when the first 35mm cameras started to show up at church entrances, for wedding photography, will, like me, smile after reading this: celebrity photographer Joy Marie Smallwood used a Nokia Lumia 1020 to capture a wedding that took place recently at Capella Pedregal in Cabo, Mexico. It's nothing […]
For part 3 of the Beachtek DXA-SLR PRO audio interface review, I visited Luna Studio in Miami Lakes, Florida, to test audio with his Panasonic Lumix GH3 camera. Ahead you’ll see (and hear) a brief audio/video clip done with his camera and the AT2005USB from Audio Technica, currently my favorite handheld hybrid dynamic microphone. What […]
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In 1982, I began what was to become one of the most favorite periods of my life. I was hired at NBC in Burbank, California. It wasn’t the most prestigious position nor was it the best job I would ever have. But it was the best place I would ever work. I don’t know what […]
Last year we revamped our voiceover recording chain, replacing a microphone and “voice channel” (a microphone preamp with additional signal processing) that were both dying. Both replacements – a KEL Song Sparrow large-diaphragm condenser microphone and Presonus VXP voice channel – are excellent tools in isolation. However, we overlooked something in their combination that has […]
2013 saw a number of announcements and updates from the biggest names in the industry, but really that’s the case every year. Specifically, NLE systems saw a huge amount of love as the big three (Adobe, Avid and Apple) all updated their software while Adobe completely changed the way they do business. Avid and Apple’s […]
Ever since I was a little kid I had always wondered why producers had their names at the beginning of a movie or TV show. I knew why the actors and people like the music supervisors were up there, but what exactly does a producer do? Even after having worked in production and post production […]
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There’s been a bit of a panic among some After Effects users about a bug introduced in the December 2013 update to After Effects CC (also known as AE 12.2). Fortunately, there’s an easy workaround until Adobe gets a bug fix issued. The problem occurs if you have a composition with audio that you wish […]
