With the price of NAND memory coming down, SSDs are rapidly gaining market share. Samsung presented recently what can be your SSD drive in the future: a 16TB SSD. Is a 16TB SSD enough to archive all your 4K movies? If you still think that SSD drives offer a limited choice, in terms of space, […]
This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows us an awesome and super-useful tip related to using stock images, video, and audio in Final Cut Pro X. Have you ever downloaded a comp from a stock site to use temporarily in your project? Perhaps to experiment with different music options, or image […]
An important element in Alex Buono’s Visual Storytelling 2 Tour was a quick but in-depth color grading session, which just goes to show how the walls that used to exist between production and post continue to come down. Alex mentioned a few color correction tools, but a casual comment about a product called LiveGrain caught […]
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Blackmagic Updates the URSA firmware to make way for their new electronic viewfinder. […]
The Logitech K400 is a combo wireless keyboard/trackpad with excellent build quality. The K400 competes well with Apple’s wireless keyboard, and does even more, at a fraction of the price. It’s well suited for editors, writers, and TriCaster operators. Compatibility of the K400 includes Boxee Box, ChromeOS, HTPC (Home Theater PC), Mac, Windows, and even […]
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A favorite motion graphics effect is wiping on an intricate, curved object (such as handwritten text) as if it was being painted or drawn. It would seem that animating a mask shape with a bit of feather or motion blur would be a good approach, but you can quickly get yourself tied into knots. The […]
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With articles like The Best Sony for Video and LUT Tricks for the Sony FS7/F5/F55, it’s no secret that we’re big fans of Sony cameras. Whether it’s their versatility, durability, value or all of the above, various PVC writers have found plenty to say about what they like about Sony’s various offerings and what they’re […]
Rhys Thomas and Adam Epstein have worked together for years on the short films for the Saturday Night Live Film Unit—Rhys as the director and producer, Adam as the editor. So when Thomas got the opportunity to direct the feature film Staten Island Summer, Epstein was a natural choice to edit. The film, produced by […]
Gnarbox is the little baby of a team that dreamed of having a way to share content with a new generation of mobile users. With an initial goal of $100,000, the project was funded on Kickstarter recently. A total of 2988 backers pledged $540,776 for this device. Professional and amateur photographers and cinematographers always struggle […]
On this installment of Art of the Cut, Sidney Wolinsky talks about cutting some of the top TV shows on television. With 33 episodes of “The Sopranos” plus episodes of “House of Cards,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Walking Dead,” and “Sons of Anarchy,” not to mention his most recent projects that include “Extant,” “Strain,” “Ray Donovan” and […]
