It’s a new year and 2017 is a year unlike any other in terms of the technology we have at our disposal for editing and post-production. The controversy over the new MacBook Pro aside we have very powerful hardware to choose from over a wide range of prices. If you’re in the game to edit […]
Previously, I covered Vimeo Pro’s portfolios, and how to use your own domain or subdomain (i.e. videos.MyDomain.com) on Vimeo’s servers with your own branding. However, Vimeo Pro’s portfolios unfortunately have two major deficiencies: (1) No SSL for HTTPS (Google progressively punishes incompliant websites in search results & in the Chrome browser), and (2) You can’t […]
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Schneider-Kreuznach introduced an entire new Cine-Tilt lens line-up. The new Xenon FF-Prime Cine-Tilt lenses each come with ± 4° tilt to help a cinematographer distort an image just enough to make it more interesting without changing lenses. Now, these lenses are not like a DSLR’s tilt-shift lens with way more range of tilt and shift motion. […]
William Goldenberg, ACE was nominated in 2013 for TWO Oscars for Best Editing: for Argo and Zero Dark Thirty, and won for Argo. He was nominated again, two years later for The Imitation Game. Other Oscar nominations include Seabiscuit and The Insider. Other films edited by Goldenberg include Heat, Ali, National Treasure, Gone Baby Gone […]
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The challenges and costs of a Russian Arm System that gets attached to vehicles during a shoot are well known and documented. The amount of options filmmakers at all levels have when it comes to capturing these kind of shots are fairly limited, which is why MotoCrane LLC has created a product that is both […]
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No drone? No problem. The Charters Pole does the job, and it’s a one time investment that will take your image capturing devices to new heights, allowing you to get shots that otherwise would be almost impossible. Imagine being able to get your camera up in the air – without the complexities of a drone, […]
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If there is a company with legitimacy to go aerial, it is Hasselblad. After all, Hasselblad went as far as the Moon. Now that heritage is reflected on the Masters competition. The partnership with DJI since 2015 gives Hasselblad one more incentive to extend its competition to images taken from above. So, this year’s competition […]
Presented as the easiest and fastest way to move large data sets into and out of the cloud, Signiant Flight is now available on Amazon Web Services marketplace. The way we see content is changing, but also the delivery and transfer of that content. The cloud is everywhere. From NBC to BBC, from The Guardian […]
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While we are in the full swing of the Sundance Film Festival take a minute to check out all of the films using Blackmagic gear to elevate the stories. Notable is the film “Carpinteros (Woodpeckers)” premiering in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition of the festival. Shot on the Blackmagic URSA Mini 4.6K the story follows […]
The Kickstarter campaign to create an immersive, psychedelic horror RPG based on the film Apocalypse Now aims to get $900,000 to create the game. Francis Ford Coppola is excited with the idea. Apocalipse Now – the Game aims to offer gamers the creative freedom and integrity that this daring and intense tale demands, so the project […]
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