Pro-audio brand RØDE Microphones is announcing an upgrade to its number one selling microphone worldwide, the VideoMic Pro. Originally released in 2010, the VideoMic Pro quickly became an industry standard on-camera shotgun microphone for professionals and enthusiasts alike. With its small form factor, superior audio quality and industry first +20db level boost, it was the […]
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Since the DJI Inspire 1 was announced back in November of 2014, it took a long time to finally get my hands on one to test for any length of time. I finally got to borrow a brand new one from Eric Cheng of DJI for a few weeks in early April, but to really […]
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This week on MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training how anyone can turn a flat logo into a 3D object in Motion or Final Cut Pro X. The new 3D text features in both Motion and Final Cut Pro X are outstanding: there’s a vast collection of materials and lighting options to […]
MoMo – the Mobile Motion Film Festival – is just that: the first Swiss Film Festival for Mobile motion movies. It is exclusively for films shot on mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, GoPro or webcams. MoMo takes place on 30th May and will be held simultaneously in Kino Arthouse Uto (Zurich) and Canada Water […]
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Based in Hanover, Germany, TV Plus GmbH is a production house that creates programs for public television, but also for commercial broadcasters and corporations. Since its founding in 1997, TV Plus has produced hundreds of live shows, fictional dramas, children’s entertainment, late night programming, and documentaries. […]
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A common trick is to use the Stroke effect to wipe on a line along a mask path. You can do the same using the Trim Paths operator for a shape layer. But, how can you control where that path starts and ends? The secret is understanding the First Vertex Point. If you drew a […]
I was recently working on an edit that used footage captured by two shooters covering a weekend event. The shooters had two different shooting styles. One chose to mainly keep the camera rolling when composing images and finding different shots so there were long clips with a lot of repositioning of the framing and finding […]
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What I’ve always loved most is listening to people tell their life stories. I grew up as one of those kids who loved listening to adults tell stories even more than hanging out with kids my own age. And I just happened to notice that, to me, the best stories were the “true” stories that […]
With a modified DJI Phantom 2 and a GoPro HERO4 Black with a 5.4mm lens, a DJI Inspire 1, a DJI Phantom 3 Pro and a DJI Phantom 3 Advanced in hand, we set out for a fun day of flying around the San Francisco East Bay and did some comparison testing of this range […]
Fabienne Bouville, ACE, will be among a select group of editors featured in Manhattan Edit Workshop’s Sight, Sound and Story event on June 13th featuring the likes of Michael Barenbaum, ACE, William Goldenberg (Oscar Winner), and Sydney Wolinsky, ACE. Bouville’s been working consistently in scripted TV with stints as an editor on “Nip/Tuck,” “Glee,” “American Horror […]
