An interesting product from Zacuto for those using Canon Cine Primes and Zeiss Compact Primes. Clever design! Zacuto Lens Supports for Canon and Zeiss Lenses from Zacuto on Vimeo. Press Release: Lens supports are an essential but often time consuming and fiddly tool in a filmmakers arsenal. The Zacuto product design team recognized […]
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Archiving your completed Final Cut Pro X project and the associated media has become much easier in version 10.1. If you are working with managed media – meaning all your media is contained within the library – you can simply drag the library in the Finder to your archive volume. If you are working with […]
Sachtler, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec group company, has redeveloped its Ace L fluid head to make it compatible with all types of sliders. The Ace L 75mm tripod head can now be conveniently converted to a flat base, through the removal of a bottom screw, and mounted on a range of sliders. The […]
Litepanels®, a Vitec Group brand and premier provider of LED lighting for the broadcast and production industries, will premiere its new Hilio D12 (daylight balanced) and Hilio T12 (tungsten balanced) high light output panels at NAB 2014. The innovative panels provide the light quality, versatility and intensity of an open source fixture, while offering all […]
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A few years ago there was a spate of interest in chromatic aberration — fixing footage containing the color fringing, but mostly creating it for motion graphics and VFX realism. At some point, questions on creating this effect must have reached a critical mass, and tools and tutorials popped up to help. […]
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If you've just made the switch from FCP7 to Media Composer 7, than the last lesson in this five part tutorial series will help you make the transition as smooth as possible! The purpose of Avid’s Get Started Fast tutorials series is, of course, to get you up and running with Media Composer 7 […]
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Learning to use a smartphone to take photographs has been, I must say, a slow process, as I am a DSLR user, was a SLR user before that, and also a medium-format photographer, for many years, while using film. I used Bronicas for much of the commercial work I did. I've played with compact cameras […]
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Blackmagic Design today announced a new model of the Blackmagic MultiDock with super fast Thunderbolt 2 technology. The new Blackmagic MultiDock replaces the previous model and is available now from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide for only US$595. Blackmagic MultiDock is a 4 disk docking solution and high speed disk array featuring an attractive machined metal […]
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Think back to the last project where you shared media for a production with your team, clients, or other stakeholders. If you are like most people, it was probably a pretty fragmented process. Project media tends to get distributed among a wide variety of different tools. Scripts, storyboards, call sheets, releases, client assets, audio, and […]
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It’s not often that Hollywood’s stars publicly recognize the great stewardship that an editor of a film has of their performance. But it’s a long journey between what an actor emotes in front of a camera and the reception of that performance by an audience. The director certainly has a strong influence on that performance, […]
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