Free GH5 camera autofocus improvement

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Ahead I am sharing four videos that demonstrate how to do something that seems counterintuitive, in order to achieve a huge improvement in the GH5 camcorder’s automatic focus. As I have covered in past articles, typically we want our shutter speed to be 180 degrees. Due to unusual behavior in the GH5, you might be […]

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Oscar® Nominated Film Editor Dylan Tichenor ACE to Headline 17th Las Vegas SuperMeet

Oscar® Nominated Film Editor Dylan Tichenor ACE to Headline 17th Las Vegas SuperMeet 2

The Creative Pro User Group Network (CPUG Network) recently announced the 17th Annual Las Vegas SuperMeet to take place on Tuesday, April 10 2018 in the Brasilia Ballroom at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. Earlybird tickets, (ends March 9) are on sale online for the price of $10.00 each plus ticket fee and $8.00 […]

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Lightweight and compact: two FUJINON Cinema lenses for the new Fujifilm X-H1

Lightweight and compact: two FUJINON Cinema lenses for the new Fujifilm X-H1

Available next June, the new lightweight cinema lenses for the X- series of mirrorless cameras cover the most frequent focal lengths in video production – 18 to 135mm – and offer a constant T2.9 aperture. The FUJINON MKX18-55mmT2.9 and FUJINON MKX50-135mmT2.9 cinema lenses for X Mount, new additions to the X Series line of interchangeable […]

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Day 20 #28daysofQuickTips 2018 – an extra 12db in the Avid Media Composer timeline

Avid Media Composer clip gain timeline

This is kind of two Avid Media Composer audio tips in one. When you raise the audio level on a clip in Avid Media Composer via Clip Gain you can raise it 12 db. That is achieved by either the Audio Mixer Clip mode or by turning on Clip Gain in the timeline Fast/Hamburger menu or the track […]

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Congratulations to BAFTA Best Editing Winner

Congratulations to BAFTA Best Editing Winner 6

Art of the Cut congratulates Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos for winning the BAFTA for Best Film Editing for Baby Driver. You can read the interview with Machliss here. Interviews with the other nominees are also available in the links below. Also nominated for the prestigious BAFTA for Best Editing were previous Art of the […]

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Quick Look: Metabones CINE mount adapters

Metabones Ef to E mount T CINE adapter

One of the pleasures of mirrorless, short-flange-depth cameras is the freedom to use a wide variety of lenses via adapters. Metabones is the granddaddy of adapter companies, renowned for their Speed Boosters. Speed Boosters incorporate optical “concentrators” to squeeze a large image circle into a smaller area, preserving full-frame angles of view on smaller sensors […]

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Day 19 #28daysofQuickTips 2018 – Map audio waveforms and keyframes in Avid Media Composer

Avid Media Composer fast menu audio data

A number of versions ago Avid added the very handy per track toggle option for audio waveforms where you could turn on waveforms for a single track at a time. This was very handy. At some point after that Avid fixed the caching for audio waveforms where once the waveforms are drawn the data is […]

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Midtown Video expo features Panasonic and LiveU

Midtown Video expo features Panasonic and LiveU 8

Last week in Miami at Midtown Video’s expo, I got to see full presentations on three Panasonic cameras and two LiveU products for live streaming, given by product managers and sales engineers. The Panasonic cameras included the AJ-PX270 EFP/ENG streamcorder camcorder, the the AU-EVA1 compact cine camera (recently reviewed by Adam Wilt, with links ahead) and […]

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Day 18 #28daysofQuickTips 2018 – Free up some screen real estate in Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro workspaces a lot of them

Adobe Premiere Pro has a lot of panels and windows that provides a lot of flexibility. With all of those panels often comes a lot of clutter and when working on a smaller screen like a laptop that screen real estate is at a premium. Here are a few tips that can help both free […]

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Day 17 #28daysofQuickTips 2018 – See original clip names in Premiere Pro timeline

Adobe Premiere Pro changed names

First off, this QuickTip mainly applies to those who use the Display the project item name and label color for all instances in the Project Settings > General. A bonus QuickTip is that option by the red arrow above. If that options is CHECKED then anytime you change the name or label color of a […]

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