The Walk, written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, features Joseph Gordon-Levitt as high-wire artist Philippe Petit. The film is a biopic, but it highlights his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. As you can imagine, there were some intense scenes that recreated this stunt, but the logistics of […]
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Some will argue that B-Roll is fundamentally a storytelling technique that helps to create continuity, and that the additional information is secondary, but in fact B-Roll can, as said previously, be different things to different people. So much so, that you can buy B-Roll shot by others to insert in your own video. I also […]
Microsoft has released their Surface Book laptop, dubbed the “MacBook Pro Killer” by some in the press. […]
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For the talented team at Cantina Creative, hanging out with superheroes or spending time immersed in future worlds is just a typical day at the office. The studio produces monitor replacements, matte paintings, heads-up displays, set extension composites, and other amazing visual effects for some of the world’s most action-packed science fiction and comic book-based […]
If you’re a Media Composer editor, and you haven’t checked out Titler Pro 4, you’re missing out on one of the best single plug-ins out on the market today! […]
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Omnidirectional dynamic microphones with balanced XLR connections remain the first choice for most ENG (electronic news gathering) organizations to connect to broadcast cameras or professional audio recorders. I decided to test the RØDE Reporter (which fits that description perfectly) with the extremely popular Electro-Voice RE50N/DB. Ahead I’ll describe the technical and physical differences, and I’ll let […]
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When Apple first released Motion, it introduced a new animation paradigm: instead of having to keyframe the start and stop values for every movement, you could apply Behaviors when you could just say “move in that direction at this speed” as well as apply other pre-coded animation instructions. The After Effects team was anxious to […]
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Analytical vs creativity, from Shutterstock It should come as a surprise to no one that an editor thinks about a project in a very different way than a systems administrator does. That’s not to say one is better than the other, but the person who’s accessing files on a daily basis isn’t always the one […]
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Visibility under the Starlight is where STARVIS got its name from. According to Sony, this new sensor provides high-sensitivity performance suitable for night filming. Canon introduced recently and displayed at the Canon Expo 2015, in Paris, their Canon ME20F-SH camera with a sensitivity over 4 million ISO, and now it is Sony’s time to show […]
Production professionals in and around the Los Angeles area are going to have a much easier time figuring out how to handle the specifics of their wireless monitoring technology workflow with the grand opening of the Creative Solutions showroom. Teradek, Paralinx, and SmallHD products will be available and on display in the showroom which is designed […]
