New Drone Uses Combustion Engine

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Launched on Kickstarter and almost funded in hours, the Yeair! is the first quadcopter in history that takes the challenge of carrying combustion engines that can be controlled with the accuracy of a normal engine. It offers, according to creators, more airtime, more payload, more speed and more style.  Behind the Yeair! drone project is […]

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Blackmagic Cameras Used On Avengers: Age of Ultron & Mad Max: Fury Road

Blackmagic Cameras Used On Avengers: Age of Ultron & Mad Max: Fury Road 2

Blackmagic cameras making an impact on Avengers: Age of Ultron and Mad Max: Fury Road. […]

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ProShow 7 Video Slideshow: Go From 4 K to HTML5

ProShow 7 Video Slideshow: Go From 4 K to HTML5 3

Although ProShow is mainly a tool for creating video slideshows from photographs, it also allows the use of video clips, meaning it can be a unique “bridge” tool for photographers extending their work in that direction. In fact, if you’re like me, you’ll keep using it to tell stories mixing the two mediums. These first […]

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Canon’s Trailer Contest: 15 Finalists Chosen

Canon’s Trailer Contest: 15 Finalists Chosen 4

Ron Howard (two-time Academy Award Winner) and Josh Hutcherson (star of “The Hunger Games” franchise), have announced the names of 15 finalists in the Project Imagination: The Trailer contest. The contest, which drew a flood of submissions, encouraged people of all skill levels to turn their photos and video footage into movie trailers with titles, […]

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That PVC Show – NAB 2015 Wrap-up

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You don’t have to look too far into the PVC archives to find out what Scott Simmons, Bruce Johnson and Kevin P. McAuliffe were up to during NAB 2015. All three of them were in Las Vegas for the annual event, and each of them posted videos along with detailed thoughts and analysis. Scott and […]

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The Sensation of White: Why I Set Zebras for 90% White Instead of White Clip

The Sensation of White: Why I Set Zebras for 90% White Instead of White Clip 6

The days of setting exposure with zebras set at white clip are most likely over. Here’s a new technique I’m trying out that works very well, particularly when viewing a log image… Early in my career I shot a lot of “run and gun” projects. When I made the move from camera assistant to […]

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iKlip Grip allows self-standups and much more

iKlip Grip allows self-standups and much more 7

IK Multimedia, the same Italian company that creates devices like the iLoud powered speaker, three different digital microphones, and preamps/A-to-D (Analog-to-Digital) converters I have reviewed here in ProVideo Coalition magazine, just announced its iKlip Grip package. It is impossible to find a single word to encompass all of its —at least— five functions/elements. Ahead you’ll see details, […]

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Final Cut Pro X: New Titles and Special Effects

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Presets are a special kind of magic when it comes to workflows. Pixel Film Studios has a huge collections of these tools, and have recently added some new names to their catalog. We look at some of the new additions available for Final Cut Pro X. ProDrop Light Show Launched recently, the ProDrop Light Show […]

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Source Timecode Burn-in comes to FCPX (and it’s in the other NLEs too)

Source Timecode Burn-in comes to FCPX (and it's in the other NLEs too) 9

Here we go with another edition of Third Party Developers Add Timecode-Things to Final Cut Pro X. This time it’s longtime developer CoreMelt adding a source timecode effect that will display the source timecode for clips that it is applied to. The lack of this single feature alone may have kept some editors out of […]

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Finding Your First or Latest Job in Production and Post

Finding Your First or Latest Job in Production and Post 10

Finding work in production and post-production environments is typically a hustle, and that’s been the reality for decades. But things certainly have changed. Cameras and editing systems are cheaper and easier to use than ever, but the Internet and mobile devices have completely altered the way in which people connect with each other. How do […]

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