Before the Flood premieres today
How to get 180° shutter speed with smartphone videos
Many people know that the under US$10 FiLMiC Pro for Android or iPhone gives us much more control than...
NASA: Virtual Reality will take us all to Mars
The idea of having everyone riding to Mars will be the theme for a presentation at the Government Video...
Augmented Reality and the noise in your images
Magic Bullet Denoiser III, Red Giant’s leading plugin for removing unwanted video noise and grain from footage, uses cutting-edge...
Blackmagic 4K Video Assist Review
I’ll make this quick. The Blackmagic 4K Video Assist is damn useful for URSA Mini shooters if only for...
Kissing Gate Films: wedding video secrets
Part of the magic of the wedding videos created by Kissing Gate Films is due to one thing: they...
“Too Much Headroom!” The Joy of “Unconventional” Compositions
I’m a huge fan of the TV series Mr. Robot. Not only does it have one of the deepest and...
Anton/Bauer batteries powered Story of Becoming
Gaffa Media founder and Creative Director Klaus Pedersen decided to create the documentary about Katalin Konya after having heard...
Why Shure’s own 545 palindromic mic beats the SM57 nowadays
Six years before Shure released the ubiquitous SM57 dynamic microphone in 1965, the company began to sell its palindromic...
Mount Everest in Cinematic VR
Last May filmmaker and post-production artist Przemek Siemion and the VR Explorers’ team joined renowned Irish adventurers and guides...
Modern Tarzan has CG hippos and crocodiles
The new Tarzan movie from Warner Bros. is a film about the return of the hero to the jungle,...
Art of the Shot: Richard Crudo, ASC
Welcome to the inaugural “Art of the Shot” interview series. It seems fitting to me the leadoff hitter for...
Shure SM58 microphone celebrates its 50th anniversary
Both the SM58 and the very similar SM57 are ubiquitous models of classic dynamic handheld microphones. Although its creator...
Stephen McGee: how to transition from photo to video
Stephen McGee started as a photojournalist, learning to tell stories with a single photo. Now he takes 24 frames...
VariCam Shorts Festival, Oct 20 in L.A.
Panasonic is holding a free screening of shorts shot on the VariCam 35 and VariCam LT 4K digital cinema cameras...