5 Color Illusions that Colorists & filmmakers should be familiar with
Optical illusions and irregular visual phenomena mean many things to us. Simple enough to be enjoyed by anyone, yet perplexing...
Film lens vs. digital lens: what are the differences?
I’ve worked with a lot of cameras, and I’ve always come back to ARRI cameras whenever I’ve had the...
Review: PhotoDirector 10, a photo editor with tethered shooting and DAM library
More than a decade since the first version was introduced, PhotoDirector 10 gains features as tethered shooting or complex...
AE Project Diary: 8) 3D City
This city flythrough was created entirely using After Effects, with the final composition involving over 18,000 layers. I made...
ART OF THE SHOT: Claudia Raschke, DP for Oscar Nominated “RBG”
Now that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have nominated the documentary “RBG” for an Oscar for...
ART OF THE CUT with Hank Corwin, ACE on editing VICE
Hank Corwin, ACE, was nominated for an ACE Eddie for The Horse Whisperer; and for an Oscar and won...
Congratulations to the Oscar nominated editors
Art of the Cut congratulates all of the Oscar nominated editors for Best Film Editing How hard did they work...
Lens dynamic range: coatings, contrast and color
There was a time in the distant past when I thought of lenses as transparent glass. Film and digital...
Classic Course: Box Blur
Want to decide how smooth or coarse your blur is? This is the effect to use. The next few...
Quick Look: Tokina Cinema Vista 50mm T1.5
Cinema Vistas are Tokina’s line of no-compromise, full-frame cine lenses. Five T1.5 primes from 18mm to 85mm are currently...
