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Art Adams
A native of Northern California, Art Adams has been in the film industry for 22 years--including the last 17 as a director of photography. After spending ten years in Hollywood, Art is now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been published in HD Video Pro, American Cinematographer, Camera Operator Magazine, Film/Tape World and CineSource. Art is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild (IATSE 600), the Society of Camera Operators (SOC), and is a trustee of the National Writers Union (UAW 1981). His web site is at www.artadams.net. 
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The Best of Stunning Good LooksA directory of my best articles, sorted by topic.
This entry is a guide to my best articles, sorted by topic. Enjoy! more »
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Hands on with the Gearnex Gear HeadWe take the wheels for a spin
Camera operator Bret Allen, SOC leapt into the manufacturing world after a phone conversation with an Arriflex rep. Frustrated by the high prices gear heads commanded on Ebay (used Mitchell or Mini-Worrall heads never sold for less than $10,000), he called Arri and asked the price of a new Arrihead. “About $42,000,” said the rep in a thick German accent. “You should order now as we only make two a year.” A year later he, his business partner Joe Mendoza, and their company Gearnex are bringing a low cost gear head to market that is perfect for small HD cameras like the RED. The pre-order price for the Gearnex gear head is $4,995, 1/8th the price of an Arrihead and about the price of a new O’Connor fluid head. Like RED, they intend to change the world by bringing quality film-style tools to the masses. more »
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Make the Entrance Pupil Your FriendEliminate parallax errors on pans and tilts (for fun and profit)
I’m helping a friend build a three RED camera panoramic camera system that will shoot a 180 image, combining three 60 degree images in post. One of the more important things to consider when doing this kind of work is finding, and aligning, the “pivot point” of each lens to eliminate parallax errors that can occur during panning and tilting.
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Wevi’s wobble but they don’t break upIDX’s new Wevi CW-5HD wireless HD system will have you looking for hidden wires and cackling maniacally when you don’t find them
If I hadn’t seen it myself, I wouldn’t have believed it. I still don’t quite believe it. I just saw an on-camera HD wireless transmitter perform spectacularly, with almost no latency and no breakup at 50’. more »Page 1 of 1 pages Advertisement |
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Customizing Lens Flares Inside Smoke
Using VideoCopilot’s Optical Flares for After Effects
Lens flares are the new lens flares. Lens flares have made a comeback of late, largely due to recent developments in software that allows lens flares to behave in a more realistic manner with border adjustments and occlusions. Long are the days when all we had was a stock 35mm default flare. Now there are many good plug-in options. Red Giant’s Knoll Light Factory is a classic but is feeling a bit aged, even with its new 3D Flare add on, currently in beta. Genarts Sapphire v6 has a new reworked lens flare option, which is much improved over previous versions, and Optical Flares from Video Copilot is quite spectacular. More on Optical Flares in a minute… First you need to know how lens flares work inside Smoke.
Tip Tuesday: Disable a clip in the Avid Media Composer timeline
It’s not as nice as a built-in clip enable / clip disable contextual menu but it works.
In honor of TipTuesday over on Twitter I thought I’d share this simple Avid Media Composer tip that I use to counter the lack of a clip enable / disable feature in Media Composer. It’s all about saving an effect and getting easy access to that saved effect. There’s actually several tips in here that can be used for most all effects in Media Composer.
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