MOVIOLA FREE WEBINAR – MOCHA FOR MEDIA COMPOSER EDITORS – MARCH 21, 2017

MOVIOLA FREE WEBINAR - MOCHA FOR MEDIA COMPOSER EDITORS - MARCH 21, 2017 1

Media Composer editors  and their workstations have always been an island in the world of post production.  Say what you will, but there’s a reason that many post houses that work on broadcast television and feature films use Avid Media Composer as their NLE of choice.  With that being said, there are companies out there, […]

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O.J.: Made in America continues to win awards

O.J.: Made in America continues to win awards

O.J.: Made in America was shot primarily with the Canon EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera, as Nick Higgins needed a small form factor for the movie. With a “small kit” based essentially around one lens, the film keeps winning awards. Although there were doubts if the Academy would look at O.J.: Made in America as […]

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ART OF THE CUT with “Cure For Wellness” editor

ART OF THE CUT with "Cure For Wellness" editor 2

Pete Beaudreau has been editing features since 2001. He’s best known for the films Beasts of No Nation, The Gambler, All is Lost, My Week with Marilyn and Margin Call. His latest film is Gore Verbinski’s A Cure for Wellness, co-edited with Lance Pereira. HULLFISH: This was a scary psychological thriller. BEAUDREAU: It’s an unusual […]

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Creating an animated Pac-Man in Motion

Creating an animated Pac-Man in Motion 12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLPCtHQH3nk This week on MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training how I used Motion to create a Pac-Man type animation. For this year’s holiday video for the Delfina Restaurant Group, we decided on a more whimsical approach (you can see the completed video here). Their marketing director asked me to make a […]

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A new profile for the Panasonic VariCam LT

A new profile for the Panasonic VariCam LT

Requested by the multiple users, the profile for the VariCam LT extends the options available to filmmakers when it comes to explore the color of the small cinema camera from Panasonic. Being HDR-Ready, with 14+ stops of dynamic range in V-Log, plus the renowned VariCam image quality and color science, the camera uses the same […]

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Master of None and Love: shooting with the VariCam 35

Master of None and Love: shooting with the Varicam 35

Mark Schwartzbard is a fan of Panasonic cameras and for Master of None and Love the DP used Panasonic VariCam 35 cinema cameras, adapted for the different styles needed by each production. The two comedy series share the same distributor, Netflix, but they also share the same cinematographer – Mark Schwartzbard (Max, Dean). It is […]

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Filmmaker Friday with Filmmaker Pierre Rios

With hundreds of careers and opportunities, the filmmaking industry can be a unique experience for a filmmaker. Options include pitching an idea, or a commission through screenwriting, casting, shooting, editing, and screening your project. Filmtools decided to take a deeper look into the world of a Filmmaker. This week, we had the opportunity to speak […]

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Atomos “upgrades” Canon DSLRs to HDR

Atomos “upgrades” Canon DSLRs to HDR

The newly developed C-Log Picture Profiles for Canon DSLR’s gives users an expanded dynamic range at an affordable price, revealing a power “hidden” inside many cameras, even models launched before 2016. Users of Canon’s EOS 5D Mark III, EOS 1D C, EOS 7D Mark II, EOS 1DX Mark II or EOS 5D Mark IV are […]

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Canon EOS C700 GS PL Cinema available July

Canon EOS C700 GS PL Cinema available July 17

Designed, according to Canon, to be the camera that so many cinematographers having been asking for from Canon, the EOS C700 GS PL Cinema is scheduled to enter the market this July, with a price of $38,000. Announced September 2016 as a “next generation” model, the  EOS C700 Digital Cinema Camera is ideal for cinematographers […]

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Vertical video: new opportunities for filmmakers

Vertical video: new opportunities for filmmakers

Different categories of video and advertising have embraced the vertical format since 2013. If you can adapt to work with the format, vertical video may be a way to expand your activity as filmmaker in new directions. In 2012 social media was making fun of those shooting films in the vertical format, but that same […]

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