Blackmagic Design announces Ultimatte 12

Blackmagic Design announces Ultimatte 12

Ultimatte 12 will be demonstrated at IBC 2017, on the Blackmagic Design booth. Discover a new realtime hardware compositing processor that’s perfect for broadcast quality keying and much more. The all new Ultimatte 12 is more than the world’s best keyer, it’s an advanced real time compositing processor designed for the next generation of broadcast […]

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Three New 4K Camcorders With Fast Auto Focus Announced By Sony

Sony Camcorders

Small, light-weight and with killer Auto Focus the three newest members of  Sony’s camcorders club were announced today. Sony has beefed the trio up with phase detection Auto Focus, 4K, and HDR capable tools for shooting in every application whether it be home videos to corporate and events to broadcast and TV production. Three New […]

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Creating 3D Text Reveals in Motion

Creating 3D Text Reveals in Motion 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU833pTflLI&feature=em-uploademail This week on MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training how to create 3D text reveals in Motion. While Final Cut Pro X has the exact same 3D text engine that Motion does, so you can create, apply materials, light, and animate 3D text in quite sophisticated ways, you cannot have the […]

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proDAD’s Mercalli V4 Stabilizr at IBC 2017

proDAD’s Mercalli V4 Stabilizr at IBC 2017

The new plugin from proDAD to enhance MacOS post-production product lineup was announced today at IBC 2017 media, entertainment, & technology show in Amsterdam. The much anticipated Mercalli V4 Stabilizr video stabilization plugin for Apple’s Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5 will be available in October.  The new plugin brings the legendary video stabilization […]

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Classic Course: Working with “Pulldown” Footage

Working with Pulldown in After Effects

We kicked off this “classic course” series with a post on working with interlaced footage. Now we can share it’s close relative: working with 3:2 pulldown and related schemes to get images shot at traditional film rates to play nice with common video rates. Modern HD cameras allow you to select the frame rate used […]

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Set Scouter finds your ideal set in New York

Set Scouter finds your ideal set in New York

Finding anything from urban lofts to traditional century homes or warehouses in New York to use as a set is practically at your fingertips, with Set Scouter’s listings giving you immediate access to tons of locations. Set Scouter is a full-service marketplace that connects film, TV and commercial producers with residential location owners looking to […]

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Strategies for cybersecurity in post-production

Strategies for cybersecurity and post-production

Fortium’s Adam Krentzman will discuss the latest solutions and strategies for cybersecurity in post-production in a special Master Class, September 16, at Sony Pictures Studios. A recent spate of high profile hacks has focused attention on cybersecurity in the media and entertainment industry. The problem is particularly acute in post-production where sensitive content is shared […]

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Sony RX10 IV: the world’s fastest AF speed

Sony RX10 IV: the world’s fastest AF speed

Lighting fast AF, 24 fps continuous shooting for photos, a versatile 24-600mm in a compact body, that’s what the newest member of the Sony Cyber-shot RX family of cameras has to offer. Sony introduces the RX10 IV as the camera offering the world’s fastest – as of September 2017 – AF speed, with 24 fps […]

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Filmmaker Friday featuring Filmmaker Einar Baldvin

With hundreds of careers and opportunities, the filmmaking industry can be a unique experience for a filmmaker. Filmtools decided to take a deeper look into the world of a Filmmaker. This week, we had the opportunity to speak to Filmmaker  Einar Baldvin about his work. This is what he said: What is your name, and where […]

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