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Traveling While Black, a documentary in VR: trading pixels for emotions
| January 28, 2019Premiered at Sundance, Traveling While Black, directed by Roger Ross Williams, is a documentary that does more than tell a…
Classic Course: Bilateral Blur
| January 28, 2019Our next movie exploring blur effects dives into the mysterious, under-used Adobe After Effects plug-in Bilateral Blur. It is based…
Voices from Sundance podcast with Phyllis Housen, editor, “Clemency”
| January 28, 2019Here’s episode 2 of Voices from Sundance. This episode features Phyllis Housen, who edited the narrative feature film “Clemency.” She…
Solutions to Resolve 5: Taming Color Management – Part 1
| January 28, 2019Color management in Resolve can be frustrating. In theory it should be a great alternative to using LUTs, but in…
ART OF THE CUT’s Voices from Sundance Podcast Episode 1
| January 26, 2019So, you’ve been asking for a podcast for a while. This is my first attempt. I’ll be working to improve…
Sundance Film Festival: storytelling using VR, AR, AI and mixed reality
| January 25, 2019The 2019 Sundance Film Festival is the place to go to see first-hand the dynamic crossroads of film, art and…
ART OF THE SHOT: “Ask Dr. Ruth” DOP David Paul Jacobson
| January 25, 2019Now that the Sundance Film Festival is in full swing I had the opportunity to talk to cinematographer David Paul…
Three lenses: a look at bokeh, depth of field and geometry
| January 24, 2019Some people take time off during the holidays. I borrow a half million dollars worth of camera and lenses and…
Photo Tour: Canon Burbank
| January 24, 2019In late December I visited Canon Burbank, an 11,000 square foot, purpose-built facility where you can see Canon’s stills, video,…
5 Color Illusions that Colorists & filmmakers should be familiar with
| January 24, 2019Optical illusions and irregular visual phenomena mean many things to us. Simple enough to be enjoyed by anyone, yet perplexing enough…
Film lens vs. digital lens: what are the differences?
| January 23, 2019I’ve worked with a lot of cameras, and I’ve always come back to ARRI cameras whenever I’ve had the chance….
Review: PhotoDirector 10, a photo editor with tethered shooting and DAM library
| January 23, 2019More than a decade since the first version was introduced, PhotoDirector 10 gains features as tethered shooting or complex layers…
AE Project Diary: 8) 3D City
| January 22, 2019This city flythrough was created entirely using After Effects, with the final composition involving over 18,000 layers. I made this…
ART OF THE SHOT: Claudia Raschke, DP for Oscar Nominated “RBG”
| January 22, 2019Now that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have nominated the documentary “RBG” for an Oscar for Best…
ART OF THE CUT with Hank Corwin, ACE on editing VICE
| January 22, 2019Hank Corwin, ACE, was nominated for an ACE Eddie for The Horse Whisperer; and for an Oscar and won an…
