Growing up, Graham Elliott desperately wanted to become a pilot and devoted himself to learning about flight. At 17 he received a scholarship to the RAF in London and within a week he was flying solo. Although Elliott ultimately decided he didn’t want to be in the Air Force, he took away a simple life […]
It’s been awhile since we’ve looked at some Useful Tools for Editors so with this new batch of utilities that have popped up recently let’s have a look. We’ve got quite a few for Final Cut Pro X, a color correction app for those with deep pockets and one that might help with tricky file […]
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How many streams of 4K can you play on a new Mac Pro? This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin and Mark Spencer from Ripple Training answer that question and more. To be fair, a more accurate way to phrase the question would be: how many streams of UHD RAW, Optimized, or Proxy media can […]
K-Tek, makers of award-winning boom poles, microphone support products and accessories introduces a new longer boom pole kit case made to transport and protect K-Tek and other boom poles which collapse to 52” long and under. The durable new KBLT52 features a smart clamshell-style design and 3-layer structural foam for lightweight durability. Featuring wrap-around heavy-duty […]
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Pre-production is a busy time for a filmmaker. Meeting and hiring cast and crew, securing locations, making budgets, contracts and deals, writing final script tweaks and a thousand other things will occupy all of the available time. One of the main things that typically falls by the wayside is properly preparing to capture the best […]
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The Winter Games are a chance for us to witness magic moments of incredibly artistry and athleticism performed by the amazing athletes competing there. But in order for us to do so, broadcasters around the world spent months preparing for that short period of intense coverage. For Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), a publicly funded […]
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Back in 2012, I wrote about many editors’ frustration about iPad video editing apps that (back then) unfortunately did not respect alpha channel in logos they imported, to allow for translucency. Most producer/editors I know who edit 1080p video capsules for the web demand this capability, especially for their lower thirds. For many, this issue […]
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“The Only Choice” was written and directed by Christopher Califano. A short film that was shot in three days, it tells the story of a woman who seems to have only one choice left with her boyfriend, and details how she comes to that decision. Califano shot with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and the Blackmagic […]
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In this tutorial, exclusive to PVC, I'm going to answer a question about recording scratch VO's for your projects. It's quick, simple, and will have you cutting your edits to time, in no time flat! Kevin P McAuliffe is a Senior Editor at Extreme Reach MIJO, in Toronto. You can send him an e-mail at […]
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As I type this I like to check and read what I write on my mobile at the same time. To see how it looks, flows, feels. Smartphones and tablets are great devices. You know from looking at the research that the audience loves them too – so portable and so personal. As I write […]
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