The new Canon lens, reference CJ12ex4.3B, is a 2/3” portable 4K zoom lens with the world’s widest focal length – an incredible 4.3mm, extending to 52mm (104mm using the built-in 2x extender). Leveraging Canon’s renowned heritage in optical design and advanced technologies, the CJ12ex4.3B delivers outstanding 4K image quality throughout the entire 12x optical zoom […]
This week on MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training the power of combining multiple concepts in Motion. The concepts we bring together in today’s example include 3D text; the fact that you can use symbols as a glyph source for 3D text; 3D replicators; and animating replicators with a behavior. We’ve now […]
It’s been a busy few years for Wooden Camera. The company started off selling a single little audio accessory for Red cameras in the spring of 2011. Now, Wooden Camera is the most prolific camera accessory maker around, with a broad lineup of gear for every camera system I can name, featuring sturdy quality, reasonable […]
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Eric Escobar speculated about where or not what has happened in the world of print will happen in the world of video post-production, specifically to the job of the editor. Automation has completely changed entire industries, to the point that right now, software can piece together a story in a writer article and identify pictures. […]
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The Stroke effect in After Effects is a workhorse, but it has one major limitation: It’s width is constant over the entire length of the stroke. You can edit and even animate its Brush Size parameter, but this changes the entire stroke. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could make a stroke become thicker or […]
A recent question submitted to the PVC mailbag was from a indie movie producer who wanted to know about investor splits and percentages. The question struck me as a bit naïve, but after looking into some of the details around how projects are created and sold these days, naïveté should be least of anyone’s concerns. […]
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If you are building a multicamera video studio today, you may be asking whether one of the Blackmagic Studio cameras —either the HD-only or the 4K UltraHD model— is now the obvious choice. In the past month, Blackmagic both added the previously missing 720p option and lowered the prices by removing optical fiber from the […]
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The EOS C300 Mark II, a new 4K video camera with outstanding dynamic range and twice as fast as the original EOS C300, according to Canon, offers multiple new features that need to be understood by users. Canon published free documentation that goes beyond the manual and explains how to get the best results from […]
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Whether or not you have ever been the author of print books or “first-generation” ebooks, like many audio/video content producers, you have likely been intrigued by the relatively new interactive multimedia ebooks, either to produce them for yourself or for your clients. These interactive multimedia ebooks have existed for a few years from Apple’s iBooks via its free […]
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In the middle of the last century, observational astronomy had hit a wall. Larger telescopes were needed to see farther out into the universe, but massive glass mirrors like the one used in the 200-inch Hale telescope had become technically and financially impractical to build and maintain. The solution to this problem was the multiple […]
