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Gear In 60: Travel Lighting & Grip Kit

Posted on August 1, 2011

I travel a lot for simple sit-down interview shoots, and commonly need to fly with a lightweight lighting and...

Production

Filming Inception’s Corridor & Zero-Gravity Sequences

Posted on July 29, 2011

If you enjoyed Christopher Nolan’s film “Inception,” you’re going to love this behind-the-scenes documentary short on how the corridor...

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Kinetic Typography Motion Graphics Tutorial

Posted on July 8, 2011

Here’s a nice long tutorial on how to do that cool animated word thing that is so popular (and...

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Switching from Final Cut to Premiere

Posted on July 6, 2011

Since Final Cut X was released a few weeks ago, there have been a large number of Final Cut...

News

Cine Gear 2011 Video Coverage

Posted on June 13, 2011

Cine Gear LA was held last week at the Paramount backlot in Hollywood, and the FreshDV crew was onsite...

News

Digital Cinema Real-World Available Light Test

Posted on June 2, 2011

We geeks are pixel pushers, and we love charts and scientific testing of camera systems. It’s an essential part...

Sony

PMW-F3 Dynamic Range Test

Posted on April 1, 2011

Abel Cine has been doing a short series of tests on the new PMW-F3 camera from Sony, and the...

Production

NFL Behind the Scenes DSLR POV

Posted on March 31, 2011

Stillmotion has posted a very cool behind-the-scenes video that shows their helmet-cam in use for NFL Films, used to...

News

Editors: Quietly Making You Look Better Since 1903

Posted on March 26, 2011

Here’s a short excerpt from the 2005 DVD ‘The Work of Director Mark Romanek‘ that talks about the making...

Production

NEX FS-100 Overview and First footage

Posted on March 23, 2011

Den from F-Stop Academy was lucky enough to be one of the first shooters to get his hands on...