Shane Hurlbut, ASC and Letus Announce New Line of Gear

Shane Hurlbut, ASC announced today that he, along with Letus, will be releasing a new line of HDSLR support gear they are calling the Master Cinema Series. 

The Templatorization of “Creativity”

The trend toward basing creative endeavors on templates has been with us for many years, culminating in Hollywood’s use of its history as templates for its current production.

Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on whether you value your personal creativity, or you’re pushing a budget to get a project finished.

Click on the link below to play the latest Terence & Philip Show as we confront the good, the bad and the ugly of formulaic content creation.

Fill Light: The Underdog of Lighting

The day I stop learning about lighting will be the day my EKG goes flatline. There’s an extraordinary amount to learn and absorb, and I doubt I’ll ever learn all of it. That’s okay, because it means I’ll never run out of new things to learn. My most recent fixation is on the one light many think about the least: the fill light.

Blue Nile Shines Thanks to the Canon 5D and Apple Color

One of the best things about this business is that greatness lurks around every corner. If you are resourceful and creative you’ll find it well enough.

Redrock Micro Brings Order To Unruly Cables

Your cat may like them.  If you have a touch of OCD you might enjoy unraveling a nice ball of wires to calm your nerves.   However, disconnect a power cable on a light or your HDMI cable during a shoot and it could cost you a shot, which could cost you a job. Especially for the HDSLR shooters, the myriad of wired accessories continues to grow, and so do the chances of you getting tied up knots. Electric tape or grip tape work, but they aren’t very dependable, and they make your cables and rig sticky. There’s the velcro ties, but they’re like socks that some how vanish without a trace. So what’s the solution? Enter Redrock Micro’s microTies.

Magic Bullet Suite’s MisFire and Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium

The Unsung Hero of Magic Bullet

I say unsung, because there’s not any mention of it being part of the Magic Bullet Suite. Once I loaded the Suite and opened it up for the first time in Premiere Pro CS5.5—there it was. I went back to the RedGiant website and searched and found just a small amount of information on their blog.

Less Jello, Please

Stop that train!  Right-to-left subject motion causes the train’s verticals to tilt, while the foreground fence is unaffected.

With much respect to the fine people at Kraft Foods, purveyors of Jello® brand gelatin desert, there is another Jello that we’re not fond of: the Jello-cam of some CMOS cameras.  An artifact typically visible in moving subjects with strong vertical lines, Jello-cam can make uprights appear slanted and table legs look wobbly.  A powerful Sony technology addresses this image distortion.

Gear In 60: SmallHD Monitor Case

Here’s another video in our FreshDV Gear In 60 Seconds series that quickly shows how I store and travel with the SmallHD DP6 field monitor and it’s associated accessories. Watch below.

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