As a lifelong skateboarder, the Sony brand has always been rooted in our community. Skateboard kids were brought up shooting videos on Sony gear, especially the VX1000, which was the iconic skateboarding camera of a generation. Many people all around the world still use that camera for its look, as well as its long history […]
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Sony buying Toshiba’s sensors, a new Olympus 300mm Pro lens for Micro Four Thirds and the FilmConvert Color Up Film Competition are some of the notes from last week, presented in this new weekly digest of news. […]
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his look at importing in Avid Media Composer, and gets specific about issues you can easily run into, when importing graphics […]
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A follow-up to my interview with 2-time Oscar winning editor, Pietro Scalia and “The Martian.” To dive deeper into workflows, project management and the talented post team on the film I spoke with “The Martian,” additional editor Cheryl Potter. […]
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The goal was to compare several cameras that made me curious for studio use with a greenscreen using a NewTek TriCaster virtual set. Although robotic cameras are not generally appropriate for virtual sets, I was also very curious to test one for other uses. So we tested —and recorded— with Blackmagic Studio 4K, Datavideo PTC–150 […]
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The action on-screen in Paramount Pictures’ new “Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension” may be scary, but the production behind the scenes was anything but horrific. For this sixth installment in the supernatural horror film franchise, which opens nationwide today, director of photography John W. Rutland and his team set out to create a new type […]
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers another question that was asked in the “Avid Editors of Facebook” group about exporting MP4’s from Media Composer! […]
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Ep. 04 itemLongestSide Free Function Friday […]
Covering live sports broadcasts requires speed, cost-efficiency, and flexibility—and that’s where Will Newell excels. For 10 years, he’s done graphics, editing, live outdoor interviews, and broadcast delivery preparation for events including the U.S. Open and Formula 1 racing. Although he’s used Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro, his freelance business now relies on a […]
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The final day of the PhotoPlus show offers special events, and a key moment of the day is the conference “At the Summit”, from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m., at the Javits Convention Center, in New York. What would you risk to achieve the impossible? If you’re National Geographic photographer, filmmaker and adventurer Jimmy Chin, […]
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