Vintage TV Studios in Modern Film and Television

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Have you ever watched a movie or a television program set in a time decades ago that had a scene take place in television studio and wonder where did they come up with all that old equipment? And, in many cases, it appears to actually be working! Well, here’s a fun fact. There’s a place in […]

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Sony Professional Launches Tech Tip Video Series

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For five consecutive weeks, Sony Professional will roll out new tech videos offering quick tech tips related to Sony’s LMD monitors and camera line. These videos will feature Sony’s own Joseph Schimizzi, an engineer with Sony, as the host and tech maven who will help production staffs navigate their way to using Sony’s LMD Monitors to […]

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Stop working for free!

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It’s becoming more and more frustrating lately seeing all the people posting online looking for people to work for free.  With the price of editing systems (we’re going to be talking more about things in a post production perspective here, as that’s the realm I work in) – hardware and software – coming WAY down, […]

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Gixal: a gesture controlled stabilizer

Gixal: a gesture controlled stabilizer

With the newly developed Gixal, action cam or smartphone owners will be able to shoot cinematic and stable videos from novel perspectives. The DSLR version comes next. Making videos with our cameras, from big models to smartphones, became a routine. Still, videographers struggle with three problems while taking videos: shooting videos by themselves in a […]

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Scorpion VFX: a modern take on the VFX pipeline

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The team behind the primetime hit series Scorpion takes an unconventional approach to post-production to deliver a staggering number of VFX shots.  Working within a timeline and budget that would give some artists heart failure, they seem to do it without breaking a sweat. When you think high-end visual effects for a big action primetime […]

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Rigging Transitions in Motion

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This week on MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training how to rig a transition in Motion so that you can choose from several options when using the transition in Final Cut Pro X. This episode builds on a Motion Under 5 episode we did a few weeks ago, where I take a […]

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Small Camera, Big Picture – Producing a Dream with the Sony a6300

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Being a filmmaker who primarily produces international documentaries, both long and short, I know the pain of traveling with large kits and dread the idea of bringing my full package, which includes my Sony FS7. It is always a pain filing the paperwork, making sure I’m first on the plane for overhead space, and then […]

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Shooting With Fujinon’s New MK18-55mm Cinema Lens

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Well well… it appears Fujinon is jumping onto the affordable cinema zoom bandwagon. Today the company announced two new cinema lenses: the MK 18-55mm and the MK 50-135mm both with constant F2.9 apertures. The price? Falling around $3,799 USD for the MK 18-55. Here is the hitch, these two lenses are E-Mount only. This is […]

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After Effects Bootcamp for Avid Editors – Part 2

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If you’re a Media Composer editor looking to add Adobe After Effects to your editing toolkit, part two of this two part webinar series is a must watch! […]

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