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DV101: What's the Best Camera? The Answer All Depends on What You're Doing
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By Jay Holben Jan 26, 2012
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Whenever I do lectures or workshops or meet filmmakers at a networking event, the number one question people ask me is, "What's the best camera?" I know what they're really asking: "What is the best camera for me—that
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Work on 'World of Betters': Beast Directs and Edits Series of Live Events
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By Jon Silberg Jan 26, 2012
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Santa Monica-based editorial house Beast, a subsidiary of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, took on an unusual project for Western Union. Beast directed and edited the six-week online campaign "World of Betters,"
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Production Diary: I Meet My Doppelgänger: He's Me, Only Smärter and Nästier
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By Stefan Sargent Jan 26, 2012
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"Let's go to the movies tonight. It's on locally, a film about Eames. We shot their exhibition in Paris. Remember?" "I don't want to go out tonight." "Maybe tomorrow..." "Going out to the movies is so last century.
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Tips to Clip: February 2012
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By Dick Reizner Jan 26, 2012
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Earphone Adapter Home
We should all use earphones when shooting video with audio, but what do you do with the mini-to-1 4" adapter when it's not in use?
I have drilled a 7 32 hole in a
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Instant Expert: High-Speed Videography: Cameras, Software, Wow!
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By Ned Soltz Jan 26, 2012
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ITEM
COMPANY
MSRP
WHAT'S NEW AND OTHER COMMENTS
Optical Flow
Boris FX
$995-$1,495 (price of BCC8 varies by platform)
Optical Flow is one of the filters
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Ticket to Ride: Recording Roller Coasters for Six Flags Promotional Video
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By Chuck Fishbein Jan 26, 2012
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Shooting any type of live footage is often a wild ride, but one of our recent projects was literally a roller coaster from start to finish.
My company, Crazy Duck Productions, is responsible for the majority of
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Round-Trip Workflows: Post Workflows From and To Final Cut Pro X
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By Oliver Peters Jan 26, 2012
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XML (eXtensible Markup Language) has become a common method of data interchange between postproduction applications. Standard XML variations are like Romance languages: one version is as different from another as
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Developments in Live 3D Production: How ESPN Captures the Winter X Games in 3D
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By James Careless Jan 26, 2012
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If you watch ESPN's Winter X Games 16 in HD, you will be getting only half the picture. This is because ESPN 3D will broadcast 25 hours of original 3D coverage of the event, which takes place in Aspen January 26-29.
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Processing and Postproduction: How to Manage Your RED Camera Data
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By Oliver Peters Jan 26, 2012
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When you work with RED Digital Cinema's cameras, part of the postproduction workflow is a "processing" step, not unlike the lab and transfer phase of film post. RED ONE, EPIC and SCARLET cameras record raw images
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Video Feeds and 'Unvarnished Truth': Hidden Cameras Capture 'Hell's Kitchen'
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By James Careless Jan 26, 2012
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From a viewer's standpoint, Hell's Kitchen is all about the antics of chef host Gordon Ramsey and the trials he puts his chef contestants through. Chef Ramsey summed up his style in a 2007 interview with Ireland's
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Side-By-Side On-Paper Comparison of the Canon C300 and Sony F3
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Jan 26, 2012
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Cinematographer Gabrielle Paciorek does a side-by-side on-paper comparison of the Canon C300 and Sony F3. She says, "I think what this boils down to is that the F3 is a camera that needs an
external recorder to
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MOTU Debuts Its First Product with Thunderbolt Technology
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Jan 26, 2012
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MOTU, Inc. has introduced the HDX-SDI with Thunderbolt technology, a professional video interface that turns a Thunderbolt technology enabled Mac or PC into a powerful HD SD video production workstation equipped with all the video
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YouTube & Ridley Scott Will Give You $500,000 For a Short Story
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Jan 26, 2012
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Ridley Scott and YouTube are banding together once again, this time as part of Your Film Festival where one grand prize winner will get $500,000 to professionally produce their short film. To enter, submit your
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A Stunning Ethereal Video Love Letter to One of Italy's Hidden Gems
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Jan 26, 2012
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Matthew Brown's video love letter to Basilicata, Italy is the winner of a Digital Diary contest sponsored by the region's tourism board. The stunning, ethereal short was shot on a Canon 7D and edited on Sony Vegas.
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High Speed Videography Reveals the Beauty of Dove Flight
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Jan 25, 2012
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This high-speed film of a dove in flight clearly displays all the jaw-dropping aerodynamics involved in something that seems deceptively simple. F*** Yeah Fluid Dynamics explain what you're seeing:
Note how
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