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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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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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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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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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Some of the World's Most Famous Directors Talk Film vs. Digital in New Doc 'Side by Side'
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Jan 25, 2012
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Filmmakers like David Lynch, James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese and others offer their perspective on film vs. digital in new documentary Side by Side, which is produced by Keanu Reeves and features
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Breathtaking Space Video Shows Milky Way, Lighting Over Africa
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Jan 25, 2012
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Crew members aboard the International Space Station filmed this stunning 20-second video which starts out showing lightning storms over Africa and the glowing Milky Way. And what more epic way to end a space video
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The Brilliant Feature Film That Was Shot for 6K
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Jan 24, 2012
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Lou Lesko of Photocine News is massively impressed with Bad Is Bad, Kent Lamm's feature-length film that he shot for $6000 with the use of his Canon 7D. Says Lesko, "The solid production value for seemingly no money
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Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Antony Dod Mantle Talks Canon C300
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Jan 24, 2012
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Cinematographer Antony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire) gives his take on the Canon EOS C300 in the video below, saying, "I've been hunting for this kind of camera...a camera that seems to me to incorporate some
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JVC Introduces ProHD Compact Studio System for GY-HM150 Handheld Camcorder
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Jan 24, 2012
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JVC Professional Products Company has announced its ProHD Compact Studio solution, which configures the GY-HM150 ProHD handheld camcorder for a studio environment using two new accessories, the HZ-HM150VZR ProHD
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