When Hollywood declared war on Television
By the end of World War II, motion pictures were coming to the end of their Golden Age. In...
Chromatic aberration: hard edges, hue shifts, and storytelling
Accidents yield interesting truths. This is especially true in lens and camera tests, where it’s hard to know what...
Art of the Cut’s Voices from Sundance Ep. 4
Art of the Cut presents our “Voices from Sundance” series of podcasts about editing. Our fourth episode is about...
ART OF THE CUT with the Oscar nominated editor of “Green Book”
Patrick J. Don Vito was just nominated for an Oscar for Best Editing for Green Book. Previous feature film...
Three lenses: a look at bokeh, depth of field and geometry
Some people take time off during the holidays. I borrow a half million dollars worth of camera and lenses...
Lens dynamic range: coatings, contrast and color
There was a time in the distant past when I thought of lenses as transparent glass. Film and digital...
PVCReview – BCC 2019 from Boris FX
Boris FX has some pretty lofty expectations to reach with this years release of Boris Continuum Complete, now called...
REVIEW – Sapphire 2019 from Boris FX
With the release of Mocha Pro 5 a few weeks ago, the team at Boris FX is still working...
ART OF THE CUT with Oscar-nominated editor, Joe Walker, ACE on “Widows”
Oscar nominated editor Joe Walker, ACE, recently cut the movie Widows for director Steve McQueen. It’s their fourth feature...
Get up and running with Adobe Animate—Flash reborn
Back in the 90’s, Macromedia Flash was the king of web-based animation and it was everywhere. Then in 2010...