AN INSIDER’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE CREATIVE WORLD OF FILMMAKING WITH PETE GILL

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 to […]

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NAB Show in April, Cine Gear Expo in June

NAB Show in April, Cine Gear Expo in June 3

The 22nd annual Cine Gear Expo returns to Los Angeles on June 1-4, 2017, with 300 exhibits and dozens of complimentary seminars and panels about multiple aspects of filmmaking. Earlier, the NAB Show opens in Las Vegas. This year’s NAB Show, April 22-27, 2017, presents itself as the place of convergence of The M.E.T. Effect, […]

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New 5 and 7 inch UltraBright HDR monitors from SmallHD

SmallHD: new 5 and 7 inch Ultrabright monitors

The new SmallHD 503 and 703 UltraBrights feature a 10-bit, 1920×1080 IPS LCD optically bonded Gorilla Glass screen with LEMO power. Last February SmallHD announced new 700 and 1700 Series monitors: the 702 OLED and the 1703-P3.  Now the company continues to expand its collection, with the new small monitors from the 500 and 700 […]

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Polishing the Talking Head Interview

Polishing the Talking Head Interview 5

I’m constantly experimenting with common lighting setups and trying to make them better. There is no more common lighting setup than that of the talking head interview. Here are a couple of tricks I tried the other day that seem to work quite well. FOREGROUND In my work I’ve seen trends moving away from backlights, […]

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Blackmagic Announces URSA Mini Pro and Accessories

URSA Mini Pro

In a youtube live streamed press conference Blackmagic CEO Grant Petty displayed a few new items. Yet, this was not just a show-and-tell style press conference. This time around Grant Petty took viewers on a tour of Blackmagic’s two new DaVinci Resolve control panels and the new URSA Mini Pro. You can check out the […]

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Blackmagic Design introduces two new color grading panels for DaVinci Resolve

Blackmagic Design introduces two new color grading panels for DaVinci Resolve 11

In what was a pre-NAB post-Christmas big bag of goodies Blackmagic held a live-stream press conference on March 2 and introduced a batch of products that most would have thought to be the cornerstone of their NAB announcements. While I’m sure the new URSA Mini Pro will be all the talk it’s the two new color […]

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CPUG Network Announces Sixteenth Annual Las Vegas SuperMeet

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The Creative Pro User Group (CPUG) Network have announced that the Sixteenth Annual Las Vegas SuperMeet will take place on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 in the Pavilion Ballroom at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Doors open at 4:30PM with the “SuperMeet Digital Showcase,” featuring over 25 software and hardware developers. Presentations will […]

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Publishing Music to Final Cut Pro X

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsUQs1X0CyE This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows us how make your own music creations available for your projects in Final Cut Pro X. This episode is a follow-up to the Final Cut Pro X in Under 5 minutes episode where Steve discussed how to create custom audio folders in the […]

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Review: edelkrone Wing 7, a portable slider and dolly

Review: edelkrone Wing 7, a portable slider and dolly

The edelkrone Wing 7 is a portable solution to investigate if you need a slider extending to 40cm and also want to have a dolly. It’s a manual slider where the user is the “engine” that makes it move. The quest for a portable slider may take some of us towards a name like edelkrone, […]

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Why I migrated 2 of my domains to Medium.com

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I just migrated two of my personal domains: AllanTepper.com and AllanTépper.soy from self-hosted WordPress installations to Medium.com. (My other domains remain with WordPress or Sparkle.) This article explains why I migrated these two particular domains (the major benefits for those two cases, not for the others); to alleviate the the doubts and objections that many people have […]

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