As production advances faster and faster towards the future, maintaining control and continuity of your image on set and in post is essential. Live color grading and advanced image management on set is a relatively new process, with real-time color processing introduced with the Thomson Viper, then expanded by the popularity of Panavision’s Genesis camera, […]
Jabez Olssen has had a career any editor would be envious of, from his first assistant editor gig on Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. He also edited The Lovely Bones, all three Hobbit movies and, most recently, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. And as an additional editor got to work with […]
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The sounds of Westworld will come back to us in 2018, when the new season begins. But if you already miss it, you can watch the show now, in different ways. Maybe exploring the sound, if you haven’t before, which is an important part of the story. Let’s do this exercise. Look at one episode […]
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RED TECH, RED Digital Cinema’s series of educational videos (previously chronicled in this post by Jose Antunes) is back on the scene with a brand new trio of short, highly informative videos. First up is wireless control. The video documents all the necessary steps, apps, and devices to wirelessly control and monitor just about […]
If you’ve just arrived to the world of video, chances are that names like DaVinci Resolve are more popular to you than Premiere Pro. Both are NLEs, but there is a huge difference between them: price. DaVinci Resolve is FREE. The number of NLEs available on the market has not changed much since 2015, but […]
With the introduction of three new colors, Pewter, Dark Blue, and Deep Red, Think Tank Photo gives users of mirrorless cameras more choice in terms of bags designed specifically for those systems. Scaled to fit today’s smaller mirrorless cameras, the Mirrorless Mover collection is available in five sizes; from the smallest case, the Mirrorless Mover […]
Filmtools recently sat down with Michael Frediani, SOC to discuss his nearly 30 year long career as a camera operator. In the ensuing interview, former Society of Camera Operators president and current Board Member expounded on topics as wide-ranging as dealing with long shooting days, challenges in his own career, working with the SOC, advice to aspiring filmmakers and […]
When a prospective student walks into one of the buildings at Full Sail University, situated on a 210-acre campus in Winter Park, Florida, they cannot help but discover the word “DREAM” hanging on the wall in a large extruding relief sculpture facing the entrance. Dream or the even better the word “dreamer” is exactly the kind […]
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Magpie is the vision of writer/director Carmel Hannant. It is a film in which the devastating effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are explored against the backdrop of World War II, a period in which this debilitating disorder wasn’t to be recognised for another 30+ years. Magpie aims to tell stories of the “Friendly Invasion” […]
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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe gives you an overview of the hot new features inside of the newest update to Avid Media Composer, version 8.7. […]
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