Before I go into the specific answers to first two questions, I want to give you my absolute answer to the third. When it comes to video storage, G-TECH G-RAIDs are the way to go! They combine outstanding performance, great features, sleek styling and most importantly the BEST reliability in the industry. There are several […]
Adobe Photoshop is synonymous with creativity, which is why it made perfect sense to celebrate its 25th anniversary with a standout commercial of exceptional artistry. Goodby Silverstein & Partners (GS&P) produced and Rock Paper Scissors edited the fantastic spot—an animated montage of the work of artists from all over the world. It aired during the […]
This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training explains how color correction works now that it is an effect in Final Cut Pro 10.2. Some folks were confused, concerned, and even angry when they updated to Final Cut version 10.2 and discovered that the color board had disappeared from the Inspector and was […]
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With enough pixels to keep the crown as the highest resolution DSLR cameras for a while, and entering without trouble into medium format space, something that Canon has dreamed about for quite some time, the EOS 5Ds and EOS 5Ds R are amazing cameras, but should not be looked as the camera of choice for […]
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An After Effects project can fill up quickly with unused items as we try out different sources an ideas. This leaves it in less than ideal condition when it comes time to hand it off to another user, or to archive it for later retrieval. Fortunately, there’s a submenu in After Effects which helps automate […]
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Kung Fury has been available to the public for a little over two weeks, and the 30-minute long 80s-nostalgic action film has already garnered over 16 million views on YouTube. It made IMDb’s Top 500 list almost instantaneously. The accompanying game, Kung Fury: Street Rage, is dominating both Apple and Android’s app charts. Kung Fury […]
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My friend Jorge González and I got together to test the audio quality on his Sony A7s and with the Átomos Shogun 4K/UHD recorder/monitor I’m evaluating. The A7s is now famous for its exceptional low-light performance imaging in 1080p or 4K/UHD —yet dependence on an external recorder for 4K/UHD. The Shogun is equally famous as […]
Seven days was all the time I had with AJA’s Cion, and the results shuffled all my preconceived notions of the camera. […]
The original Typhoon Q500 quadcopter, launched in 2014, was, according to the company, the world’s first ready-to-fly, out-of-the-box drone, flyable in a matter of minutes. Now they take the platform forward, creating the Typhoon Q500 4K, as easy to fly as before, but offering higher resolution and a host of new features. A specialist in […]
In a recent article called Confidence: What it means in audio/video production, I defined the concept of confidence in monitoring. Having done that, the purpose of this article is to establish a tough scale to apply to both audio/video devices and for systems. This new standard SCM (Standard for Confidence Monitoring) takes into account multiple factors […]
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