A single picture reveals all the colors of a movie

A single picture reveals all the colors of a movie 2

If you compress the colors from The Grand Budapest Hotel in a single graphic, the result is one image which shows much of the tones used in the film and through them the mood of the story. But other films will not easily reveal their mood through the colors. The process is not new, but […]

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After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Automatic Fades

After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Automatic Fades 3

As we’ve said many times, After Effects is not an NLE – but often, it’s easier to keep everything inside After Effects instead of splitting a project across multiple programs. One of the biggest issues for editors coming to After Effects is that video segments have to each exist on their own track, each with […]

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Magic Leap: a future without screens

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Magic Leap is, as stated on their website, “an eclectic group of visionaries, rocket scientists, wizards, and gurus from the fields of film, robotics, visualization, software, computing, and user experience”. They want to change the way people will interact with the world tomorrow. If they have it their way, screens can vanish from our daily […]

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Blackmagic Video Assist Review

Blackmagic Video Assist Review 5

With the $459.00 SDI/HDMI Monitor/Recorder does Blackmagic have a hit of a product with the Video Assist on their hands? […]

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Jayse Hansen helps movie audiences suspend reality

Jayse Hansen helps movie audiences suspend reality 6

Jayse Hansen is a sought-after fictional UI designer and animator who learned his trade not in school, but through books and from other great designers. After working in print and web design, he taught himself Adobe After Effects and set his sights on a career in the film industry. […]

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A digest of last week’s photo and video news – Week 45

A digest of last week's photo and video news - Week 45 7

A digest of last week news is a selection of some of the news from week 44 related to the worlds of photography and video, covering multiple topics, always rounded up with a reading suggestion. First truly portable HD multicamera recorder/switcher Convergent Design announces Apollo, a new recorder able to simultaneously record up to four […]

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Defining and customizing your production-to-post workflow with Catalyst Prepare and Catalyst Edit

Defining and customizing your production-to-post workflow with Catalyst Prepare and Catalyst Edit 8

The way in which technology has and continues to change how film and TV professionals work is a topic that we deal with on a frequent basis, and those changes are felt and seen throughout every level of the industry. I often joke that by the time everyone is ready to accept 4K as a […]

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LumoPro flash with Phottix Odin receiver

LumoPro flash with Phottix Odin receiver 9

The new Lumopro LP180R is, in fact, mostly the old LP180 from 2013, a manual flash with a single contact pin for – very – basic use on camera. What makes it interesting, now, is the addition of Phottix flash triggering systems, which allow to use the flash in TTL wirelessly. It should be noted […]

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Update: Free keyboard shortcuts for your favorite NLE

Scott Simmons published a Resolve 12 editorial menu/keyboard cheat sheet not too long ago, and it’s a great resource. Whether your preference is to print something like this out or look at it on-screen, you’ll find these shortcuts will save you time in almost everything you do. We wanted to create similar resources that would […]

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