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Local Produce: DSLR Production for IFC's 'Portlandia'
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By Jennifer Wolfe Jan 26, 2012
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IFC's hit original comedy series Portlandia (@PortlandiaTV) brings viewers a romanticized and dreamy rendering of Portland, Ore., while gently satirizing the earnest Pacific Northwest community. Fred Armisen, who
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Island Life: Kevin Tent Edits 'The Descendants,' Alexander Payne's Film of Love and Loss
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By Oliver Peters Jan 26, 2012
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Alexander Payne is a director who makes human stories with a blend of comedy and drama that we all can relate to. Movies like Sideways and About Schmidt are about discovery of self, and audiences relate to the humor
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Panasonic's HDC-Z10000 Is A Pro Camcorder Contender
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By Ned Soltz Jan 26, 2012
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The Panasonic HDC-Z10000 is marketed as a consumer camcorder, but I beg to differ with that targeting. The Z10000 is a truly professional unit, with even a few features not usually found in cameras of this size
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Scene Dissolve: Bobby Bukowski Creates A Digital Deterioration in 'Rampart'
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By David Heuring Jan 26, 2012
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Bobby Bukowski and Oren Moverman's last project together, The Messenger, won Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards. The duo reconvened in 2011 for Rampart, a portrait of a tough, embittered Vietnam vet whose job as a
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Editor's View: 'Portlandia': Automatic for the People
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By Cristina Clapp Jan 26, 2012
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I think you might like watching Portlandia on IFC nearly as much as reading about its production. The series is clever, eccentric and original, just like its creators, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein.
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Video Review: Schneider Optics True Match Vari ND Fader Filter
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Jan 26, 2012
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Jared Abrams of Wide Open Camera takes the Schneider Optics True-Match Vari-ND fader filter for a spin in the below video review. He says, "Schneider claims that because of the matched glass there is no color
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Solid State Is Great: Sound Devices Pix 240 Offers Multiple Options for Outboard Recording
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By Ned Soltz Jan 26, 2012
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Our writers and editors were first wowed by Sound Devices' Pix 240 (and its HDMI-only sibling Pix 220) at the 2011 NAB Show, seeing a prototype unit—albeit with a smaller screen than the shipping product but with
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Light with Might: Libec JB-30 Jib Arm Offers Robust Performance but Won't Weigh You Down
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By Jay Holben Jan 26, 2012
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Libec is a fairly new comer to the world of camera support manufacturers. Although its parent company, Tokyo-based Heiwa Seiki Kogyo Co. Ltd., has been around since 1955, Libec Sales of America was established in
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Digital Assistant Data Bank: Toland ASC App Delivers An Invaluable (and Handheld) Resource
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By Jay Holben Jan 26, 2012
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Chemical Wedding consistently wows me with its offerings. A partnership of cinematographer Nic Sadler, Simon Reeves and Toby Evetts, Chemical Wedding has produced some of the most useful and powerful iApps on the
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Open-Door Policy: Avid's Media Composer 6 and Symphony 6 Offer Editors 64-Bit Code and Open IO
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By Oliver Peters Jan 26, 2012
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Avid made the jump to 64-bit in November with its mainstream Media Composer 6, Symphony 6 and NewsCutter 10 software. This highly anticipated release includes 10 cornerstone features: 64-bit code, Open IO, ProRes
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Stock Footage: 'We Were Here':The AIDS Years in San Francisco
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By Joy Zaccaria Jan 26, 2012
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The documentary We Were Herefeatures five veterans of the AIDS crisis at its peak. Of the people he'd met over the years, director David Weissman gathered those who were most able to offer personal stories about
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'Gaga Constellation,' Barneys Installation: The Science Project Develops An Imaginative Interactive Video Display
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By Jennifer Wolfe Jan 26, 2012
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Shoppers at the Barneys New York Madison Avenue store this past holiday season were treated to a Lady Gaga-themed interactive window display developed by digital agency The Science Project that allowed live streaming
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'Your Sister's Sister': Combining Camera Technologies for the Improvisational Indie
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By Jon Silberg Jan 26, 2012
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In their years of collaboration, director Lynn Shelton and cinematographer Benjamin Kasulke have developed a style of working designed to capture a kind of naturalness in the acting and realism in the environments.
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Growing Appreciation: Documentarian Michael Kuehnert Works to 'Save the Farm'
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By Jennifer Wolfe Jan 26, 2012
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Documentary filmmaker Michael Kuehnert says he first heard about the Los Angeles South Central Farm in 2006, when he picked up a newspaper and saw a photo of his friend John Quigley sitting in a tree with fellow
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Black on Black: Blur Studio's Opening for 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Reinvents the Title Sequence
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Jan 26, 2012
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Blur Studio worked with longtime collaborator director David Fincher to create the opening title sequence for his The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a film based on the books in Swedish author Stieg Larsson's Millennium
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