Free Function Friday locateMidPoint
ART OF THE CUT with Ken Burns’ doc editor Craig Mellish, ACE
Documentary editing is an art form that requires tremendous patience, skill and imagination. Eisenstein’s theories about the juxtaposition of...
Blocking Before Coffee
Feature film: first day. The crew and I start to run out of things to prepare; the director is...
Bright Tangerine Talks Titan Arm with PVC: NAB 2016
Bright Tangerine’s Titan Arm Articulating arms can be fraught with frustration. Eventually, they no longer tighten well and once...
Improving image quality by changing channels
Image quality can be a touchy subject, from production right through to final delivery. So to claim that I’m...
Panasonic Shows Off Varicam LT To PVC: NAB 2016
Panasonic first announced the VariCam LT in February 2016. NAB 2016 was likely the first place many shooters had...
Mindshift Gear: 4 multi-mount holsters
I’ve been on the lookout for a way to carry a single DSLR with a lens or two, a...
How to Build a Live Production and Streaming Studio
For more than 10 years Videoguys.com, one of the world’s leading resellers of video editing and production solutions, has...
The essential gear you may not be using on set
Generations of filmmakers have refined the tools we use to make movies. But if you haven't been on a...
Media Composer 101 – Lesson 20 – Basic Transitions
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe goes back to basics and continues his talk about editing in your Media...
X-Rite announces partnership with SmallHD
Right after NAB Show 2016 X-Rite announced a partnership with SmallHD centered on the first-ever line of daylight-viewable, full-HD...
A digest of last week’s photo and video news – Week 18
A digest of last week’s news is a selection of some of the news from week 17 from 2016...
Do Away with the Array: RE:Lens for After Effects brings clarity to extreme fisheye scenes
RE:Vision Effects, best known for its Academy Sci-Tech award-winning motion-estimation-based effects including Twixtor and Reel Smart Motion Blur, demonstrated...
360º Video Report #11 – Epson Moverio BT-200 AR Smart Glasses at NAB 2016
One of the hidden gems I came across at NAB 2016 was on the Epson booth. We typically associate...
A Short History of Headroom, and How to Use It
Years ago a meddling DP ruined my great shot. Here’s what I learned from that experience. I’d landed a job shooting part...