The price of 4K monitors is going down while their size goes up. The Philips UltraClear 40-inch 4K UHD Display now available for $799 is a good example. Four times the detail of a 1080p Full HD for what was not long ago the price of a 24-inch monitor are now available on a 40-inch […]
Month: June 2015
Trifecta Backpacks for “Workhorse” Lenses
If you ask photographers which lenses they use, you’ll discover many have a group of lenses they carry most of the time. From my experience, I’ve found I carry around, usually, just three lenses: a 17-40mm, a 100-400mm and either a 60 or a 100mm macro. These are my “workhorse” lenses. Think Tank Photo just […]
Released Today: The 2015 Adobe Creative Cloud Video Applications
The wait is over. The 2015 versions of the Creative Cloud video apps, previewed at NAB, are available today! Creative Cloud members, and trialists, can download the new versions through the Creative Cloud desktop applications, or from Adobe.com […]
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Light Wrap in Motion
On this week’s Motion Under 5, a quick tip for wrapping background lighting around 3D text in an easy yet not very intuitive manner! […]
Animating Environments for 3D Titles
This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows us a great tip for creating an animated light effect on 3D text in Final Cut Pro X. One characteristic that has a huge impact on the look of your 3D text in Final Cut Pro, especially if you have used a highly reflective […]
Drone Film Festival: 2016 Edition Opens in August
New York City Drone Film Festival is the world’s first event exclusively dedicated to celebrating the art of drone cinematography. The festival was created in 2014 by Randy Scott Slavin, with a desire to change the perceptions on drones. Director, landscape photographer, and aerial cinematographer Randy Scott Slavin, confessed at the time: “I’m tired of […]
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After Effects CC 2015
Back in April, we gave a preview of the major new features planned for what is now known as After Effects CC 2015 (also known as 13.5). Now that this version is available for download to Creative Cloud subscribers, we thought we’d flesh out those thoughts a bit based on more time using this new […]
Camera rental houses robbed. Be on the lookout for stolen gear.
Over the last couple of weeks there seems to have been a string of robberies from camera rental houses. It’s no secret that a rental house has a lot of very expensive gear within their walls including everything from cameras to lenses to support gear. This happened to Doug Bates Video Rentals here in Nashville […]
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After Effects Hidden Gems: Grow Bounds
Some effects – usually those in the Distortion category – will try to create new pixels in After Effects that should appear beyond the layer’s original boundaries. Sometimes, it’ll be okay – but sometimes, they’ll get clipped off by the layer’s boundaries: […]
Canon: New Ultra Short Throw Interactive DLP Projector
Canon expands its line of portable DLP projectors with two ultra short throw models, the LV-WX300UST and LV-WX300USTi, the latter of which is also Canon’s first interactive model allowing for simultaneous collaboration with multiple users. The new projectors combine 3000 Lumens with WXGA resolution (1280 x 800), are capable of displaying 3D content via the […]
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