Get your DIY on with Blackmagic’s 3G-SDI Arduino Shield. The Arduino is built to help creatives and engineers build their own custom controllers for cameras and other SDI devices. In the past, if broadcast engineers wanted to integrate Blackmagic’s cameras into their already built systems they would need to build SDI hardware to do remote […]
Month: July 2016
Fujifilm’s free color space converter
Fujifilm makes high-end LUT boxes allowing both color space conversion and look creation. The flagship IS-100, a.k.a. CCBOXX, is a full-freight, ACES-compatible color management system, while the IS-mini is a more compact (and affordable) LUT box with ASC CDL color-correction and look-creation capability. The IS-mini Color Space Converter is a free subset of the IS-mini’s […]
Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Audio Ducking In-Depth
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a great viewer question about the Audio Ducking feature in Media Composer, and whether it’s possible to drop super long VO’s into your timelines, with no editing done to them, and still work with Audio Ducking, or is it based on the in and out points of edited […]
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Using the palette of Sony’s FS700 as a digital canvas to create a masterwork
Stanley Kubrick’s street photographer sensibilities helped define his signature look. Julian Schnabel’s sensational transition from painter to filmmaker shows how abstract artistic sensibilities translate into brilliant, unconventional storytelling. Now, Loic Zimmermann, a French filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Angeles, carries the dialogue between the visual arts into the digital age with A Solitary […]
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Xeen 135mm T2.2, Samyang’s Blockbuster
Globally available in August, with a recommended retail price of € 2,200, the Xeen 135mm T2.2 offers, says Samyang, outstanding image quality from resolving power for 4K+ production for filming video and cinema. The new lens joins the existing five lenses of 14mm T3.1, 24mm T1.5, 35mm T1.5, 50mm T1.5 and 85mm T1.5 in the […]
Fujifilm X-T2 gets F-Log, Lightroom Mobile gets RAW
Able to capture 4K video without heating problems, the Fujifilm X-T2 is one of the most popular cameras of the moment in the same week Samyang announces a new series of lenses. These are some of the new published during the week 28 of 2016. Lightroom Mobile gets RAW Lightroom Mobile for iOS finally offers […]
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Why We Need More Women In Film and Television
This past weekend had the potential to be big news for Women in Filmmaking. The latest version of “Ghostbusters” had its opening weekend in the theaters with its all-female lead cast. Many will watch to see if the film does well at the box office, or poorly, as a tell-tale sign of whether or not […]
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Real-world, same-day editing with the Lumaforge Jellyfish and Adobe Premiere Pro
Earlier this summer I was hired on a job to edit same day content for CMA Music Festival. It’s one of the biggest music festivals around and they produce a good bit of content that shows nightly at the stadium as well as online. Working with our friends at Taillight TV the weeklong job required […]
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HP ZBook Studio G3: How to output standard framerates over HDMI
Despite deceitful rounding in camera menus from otherwise responsible manufacturers including Canon, JVC, Panasonic and Sony, rates like exact 30 or exact 60 fps haven’t been used since before 1953, when the US changed to approximately 29.97 and 59.94 when it colorized the previous monochromatic system. When I published my recent review of the HP […]
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Moose Ears backpacks: the return of a classic
The original 1998 ‘Moose Ears’ backpack design with auto-close compartment flaps is back, on three versions designed for wildlife and safari photographers… and other photographers and videographers looking for a bag that carries a lot of gear but still fits in the overhead compartment of the smallest regional jets. Back in the 90s Moose Peterson […]
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