Color and light have a huge impact on the art of filmmaking. They set the mood and tone (no pun intended!) of a scene, and guide our experience of the story. To illustrate this phenomenon, we caught up with Jason Levine (@Beatlejase) and asked him to use the all-new mobile app, Adobe Hue CC, to capture three […]
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Flashpoint LED panel lights are durable, portable and quality construction – and best of all, affordable. I’ve used other higher-priced brands of LED panel lights in the past and found them useful in many situations, but extremely overpriced for what you get. Thankfully, Adorama’s Flashpoint brand has released these sensible and affordable production lights and […]
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It’s not uncommon to working on a layer in a composition – including editing its duration, adding effects, or even keyframing an animation – and then decide you might like to see a different source in its place. This may happen for several reasons: The temp footage got color corrected; you’ve been working with a […]
The NASA move to 4K reflects the changes at Youtube, that since May started to use 4K at 60fps, to celebrate 10 years of the video platform. Although many users are not aware of the fact, 4K is slowly being available around us. And 8K is already out there, but hardly any computer has the […]
Dronestagram, a platform online for everyone interested into aerial videos and photos, partnered again with National Geographic for their Drone Aerial Photography Contest, which runs until the end of June, accepting photos for the themes of this year’s competition. Showing the beauty of your favourite places is the main theme of the contest, with categories […]
Are you defined by the NLE you use? If you answered no to that question you can probably stop reading now but if you answered yes then read on. If yes I would ask why? Are you an Avid Editor or a storyteller? Are you an FCPX editor or a craftsman of the moving image. […]
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Recently, I proposed the topic of how to do the audio setup for a live TV show to our friends at NewTek. It really doesn’t matter whether you are recording Live-to-drive (previously called Live-to-tape), live to over the air or cable, or live on the Internet. In part 1, I cover the acoustic environment, microphones, and IFBs. In […]
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Media & entertainment projects will almost always boil down to four phases: pre-production, production, post-production and distribution. Production and post get most of the glory, but the distribution aspect of a project is becoming more and more essential. With platforms like YouTube and Netflix, the days of simple deliveries in single formats are long gone. […]
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The market for flexible light modifiers may well be saturated with solutions, but since 2010 Expo Imaging found a place for their products in the Rogue FlashBender range, a lighting solution for photographers working with shoe mount flash. FlashBenders offer a portable and creative alternative to many other lighting systems. The fact that you can […]
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You don’t have to look too far to realize the power of the Chinese marketplace. Jurassic World just had one of the biggest openings ever, and a large percentage of that total came from China. Those audiences are full of filmmakers in their own right, and many are anxious to take advantage of the […]
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