Blackmagic releases Camera Firmware 2.0 adding new recording features to the URSA. The Studio Camera 4K, Studio Camera, Pocket Cinema Camera and Blackmagic Cinema Camera all get minor improvements or bug fixes. The URSA, the beast that it is, gets a firmware update adding ProRes 444 in 4K up to 60 fps and HD up […]
Month: January 2015
Why Digital Sprockets edits video with DaVinci Resolve instead of FCP X
Benjamín Fernández is the director of Digital Sprockets in México City, where since 1994 he has offered post-production, telecine (film-to-tape) and film restoration services. While I’m in México City doing seminars, I visited Digital Sprockets and heard all 6 interesting reasons why Benjamín prefers editing video with DaVinci Resolve than with Final Cut Pro X. […]
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Laughter, Pain & Indie Filmmaking: An Interview with Kevin Pollak
Best known for his roles in films like The Usual Suspects, A Few Good Men, and Casino, actor and comedian Kevin Pollak is a born entertainer, having perfected his first standup routine when he was just ten years old. And for the past six years, when not putting the real William Shatner or Christopher Walken […]
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Easy Flying Logos with AE + C4D Lite (+ Illustrator)
One of the most common, bread-and-butter motion graphics jobs you’re going to get is to take your client’s flat, two-dimensional print logo, turn it into a 3D object, and animate it onto the screen for an endless variety of video destinations (trade shows, press events, training videos, web & social media, etc.). This used to […]
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Pond5 Launches the Public Domain Project With 80,000 Free Media Clips
Pond5, the world’s leading online marketplace for royalty-free video footage, announced today the launch of the Pond5 Public Domain Project, the first library of free public domain content designed specifically for media makers. The initial collection includes 10,000 video clips, 65,000 photos, thousands of sound recordings, and hundreds of 3D models. “For years, all of […]
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Review – Wipster
There have been a couple of great articles here on PVC in the last little while about Review and Approval. Scott Simmons had an article that focused on the Review and Approval options for you out there, and Dorian Heller had posted has look at Wipster. Well, with this review, I hope to take Dorian’s […]
The Public Domain Project
We all need footage – but there’s not always the budget to license or shoot it. We can try to hide behind the illusion of “Fair Use” – but in reality it’s hard to qualify for the exemption. In theory, if we know where to look (such as the Archive.org, or anything funded by the […]
Product Review: DSLRPros Expedition Series P2 Aerial Kit
Taking the popular and durable design of the DJI Phantom 2, DSLRPros has created a truly portable kit for the extended-travel road warrior, camper, hiker or outdoor explorer, with the DSLRPros Expedition Series PD Aerial Kit. I live with this kit for a couple of months and take it with me out in the country, […]
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“Things of the Aimless Wanderer” finds its way to the 2015 Sundance Film Festival
Kivu Ruhorahoza and Antonio Rui Ribeiro are best known for their collaboration on the feature film Grey Matter, winner of—among many other awards—the Jury Special Mention for Best Emerging Filmmaker at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2014, they teamed up for Things of the Aimless Wanderer, premiering at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Ruhorahoza […]
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RØDE Breaks New Ground with Multiple Product Launch in 2015
Australian audio company RØDE Microphones has held the largest simultaneous product launch in the company’s history, introducing multiple new products and categories at an exclusive event in San Diego, USA. Considered by many to be the dominant force in audio for broadcast and film production over the past 10 years, RØDE has solidified this reputation […]
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