ART OF THE CUT: cutting “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2”

ART OF THE CUT: cutting "Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2" 1

Fred Raskin, ACE has edited numerous films including Django Unchained, Hateful Eight (for which I interviewed him previously), and several of the Fast and Furious franchise. Craig Wood, ACE has dozens of films to his credit, including the first three of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Tomorrowland, and Gore Verbinski’s very funny, Mousehunt. Craig Wood […]

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Post NAB 2017 – Scribeomatic from Coremelt

Post NAB 2017 - Scribeomatic from Coremelt 17

With NAB 2017 now wrapped, I’ve had a chance to actually dive in and check out some of the “Tools for Editors” offerings from the different companies, and I thought I’d start out with a quick look at Scribeomatic from Coremelt.  Scribeomatic is a cloud based transcription service that will let you take clips/audio from […]

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FilmLab: scan film with a smartphone

FilmLab: scan film with a smartphone

Shooting film is great, scanning it a nightmare. Abe Fettig decided to try something different: he wrote a software that transforms your smartphone in a scanner. The Kickstarter campaign, which started a few hours ago today and ends July 8, has a goal of $20,000 and already pledged close to $4.000 from over 200 backers, […]

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Aurora Aperture: new rear mount filters for extreme wide-angle lenses

Aurora Aperture: new rear mount filters for wide-angle lenses

The new Kickstarter campaign for the PowerND family of high quality fixed neutral density (ND) filters from Aurora Aperture is almost finished, but the company continues to surprise backers. There is a growing interest in Neutral Density filters for both photography and video, and companies continue to introduce new products, some of them extending the […]

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Premiere Gal: Using Premiere Templates & the Essential Graphics Panel

Premiere Gal: Using Premiere Templates & the Essential Graphics Panel 18

Whether you want to create a quick split screen video, a bunch of square videos for Instagram with titles and graphics that match your brand elements, or just learn the new ways of using titles and graphics in Premiere Pro, you would be thrilled with this Premiere Gal demo. In this presentation Kelsey Brannan a.k.a. […]

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