Apple improves Mac and mobile OS, but misspells El Capitán

Apple improves Mac and mobile OS, but misspells El Capitán 1

At the recent WWDC, Apple announced several improvements both in its upcoming Mac OS and the upcoming mobile iOS 9. At the same time, Apple unfortunately blundered when presenting the name for the new Mac OS, called El Capitán. (Apple neglected to include the accent mark.) Ahead I’ll cover my favorite improvements in both operating […]

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Sony Electronics Delivers a Complete A/V Upgrade for the Pittsburgh Pirates’ PNC Park Control Room

Sony Electronics Delivers a Complete A/V Upgrade for the Pittsburgh Pirates’ PNC Park Control Room 2

The Pittsburgh Pirates are discovering an added home field advantage this season, through an A/V system installed by Sony Electronics. Sony’s Solutions Development and Integration group served as the prime contractor, working with system integrator Alpha Video Sports & Entertainment Group to design and install a new video control room using Sony HD broadcast technology […]

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My Photos Are Not Royalty-Free – 2

My Photos Are Not Royalty-Free – 2 3

To fully understand the story it is a good idea to read the original article, My Photos Are Not Royalty-Free, which I can summarize here in a few words: “When I recently browsed the web to show some images to a friend, I found a Google entry under “royalty-free stock photos from Jose Antunes | […]

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Blackmagic Cameras help Spike TV’s “Tut” Capture Impossible

Blackmagic Cameras help Spike TV's "Tut" Capture Impossible 4

DP Chris LaVasseur and Second Unit Drictor/DP Mark Vargo, ASC shoot action scenes and stunt work for Spike TV’s televsion series “Tut.” […]

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Exporting H.264 from Davinci Resolve 11

Exporting H.264 from Davinci Resolve 11 5

In “Under 5 Minutes” Alexis Van Hurkman from RippleTraining will teach you how to export an h.264 encoded movie for your boss or clients to review, directly from within DaVinci Resolve 11’s delivery page. […]

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Go “Through The Lens” with Adorama and Instagram’s Most Followed Photographers

Go “Through The Lens” with Adorama and Instagram’s Most Followed Photographers 6

What is a photographer thinking about when they take a photo? Are they more focused on the look of a given image, or the narrative of the project as a whole? What literal and figurative hardships do they have to go through to bring their project to life? Those are just a few of the […]

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New GoPro: Lighter and Smaller, Drone Comes in 2016

New GoPro: Lighter and Smaller, Drone Comes in 2016 7

The recently released GoPro camera, the HERO4 Session is really paving the way for the drone that the company wants to launch in 2016. Lighter payloads mean that drones can fly better and longer, and it is reasonable to believe that GoPro wants their drone to be competitive when they enter the market. While there […]

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Putting Detailed Face Tracking to Work in AE CC 2015

Putting Detailed Face Tracking to Work in AE CC 2015 8

One of the major new features in After Effects CC 2015 is a Face Tracker. With this, you draw a loose mask around the target’s face, and the Face Tracker will automatically snap it to enclose the chin, cheeks, and forehead, plus track changes in it from frame to frame. In addition to this “Outline […]

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Blackmagic studio cameras finally support 720p!

Blackmagic studio cameras finally support 720p! 9

I was happily amazed this morning when I received a private email from Blackmagic’s public relations department: The 720p option we requested in April of 2014 has finally arrived in Blackmagic Camera Setup version 2.5! Now the Blackmagic studio cameras can offer 720p50 (common in PAL and ex-PAL regions), 720p59.94 (common in the NTSC and […]

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Master or Slave? The Speedlite 430EX III-RT Confusion

Master or Slave? The Speedlite 430EX III-RT Confusion 10

Master or slave? Master and slave? The documentation seems to be fuzzy in this case, making people ask the question over and over. The press-release for the United States, says “the new Canon Speedlite 430EX III-RT features wireless flash shooting via optical or radio transmission (similar to the Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT but slave function only)”. […]

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