The nomination for the VES Awards comes for the studio’s work on the Quicksilver Extraction sequence from the 20th Century Fox film X-Men: Apocalypse. Rising Sun Pictures has been nominated for Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature in the Visual Effects Society’s 15th Annual VES Awards. In the Extraction sequence, Quicksilver (Evan Peters) uses his […]
Year: 2017
All your power needs explained
Distributed freely online the new runtime chart allows users to conveniently look up how long their Litepanels lights will operate, in minutes, when paired with specific Anton/Bauer mobile power solutions. Yes, everything you wanted to ask about lights and batteries is now compiled in a single pdf document you can take with you everywhere in […]
REVIEW: Ready Rig GS Gimbal Support
Camera gimbals like the Freefly Movi and DJI Ronin are wonderful tools, but if you pair them with any camera that’s bigger than a DSLR, you quickly realize they’re H-E-A-V-Y, and a challenge to operate for any appreciable amount of time. You might not notice it when you’re testing a gimbal in a camera store, or […]
Paralinx releases new Tomahawk, expands compatibility
Tomahawk2 features a completely redesigned hardware platform that adds many improvements to the industry-leading Tomahawk system, but there is more to the next-generation in wireless video monitoring for cinematic production. Since its release in 2014 the Tomahawk system has become a mainstay on productions around the world, from Academy Award-winning motion pictures to commercials and […]
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ART OF THE CUT with Manchester by the Sea’s Jennifer Lame
Jennifer Lame started working as an assistant editor on TV shows like 30 Rock and Smash before joining editing teams on features films like Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, and Reservation Road. She moved into the editor’s chair on the 2012 indie, Pricecheck before editing a trio of Noah Baumbach films: Frances […]
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RED Helium sensor is new DxOMark benchmark
While one has to understand why RED will use this on its behalf, as all other brands do, believing that a sensor score makes a system is a wrong starting point to define winners. For starters, there is a huge price difference between the RED cameras used for the DXO Labs test and the general […]
The invisible art of sound at LAPPG
The January meeting at the LAPPG is a unique opportunity to learn about sound from two of the most respected names in the industry of make believe. The meeting takes place at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, 1714, 21st Street, in Santa Monica, with doors opening at 7pm. How to get the most bang […]
Thunderbolt 3: Now the revolution begins
2500 megabytes per second drives. Dual 4K displays. External PCIe system expansion. Thunderbolt is no longer just a faster kind of Firewire. It’s a complete desktop ecosystem. In the world of computing there have traditionally been three main gateways for data going into and out of a PC: a network connection, a storage connection, and […]
Introducing the ProVideo Coalition PVC News app for iOS and Android
As ProVideo Coalition starts a new year we would like to unveil a free after-Christmas present for all of our readers: the ProVideo Coalition PVC News iPhone app. The PVC News app is an easy and fast way to keep up with all of the latest articles, news and webinars without opening your web browser. It’s fast and […]
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Dell: the world’s first 32-inch 8K monitor
Dell’s presence at CES 2017 relied on the new 8K monitor as the main point of interest, but the company also showed another world’s first with the Dell 27, “overall thinnest monitor” and a slew of other products. The Dell UltraSharp 32 Ultra HD 8K, reference UP3218K, is not your common desktop monitor. Dell designed […]