Mo-Sys: using Virtual Production to film a plane in a hangar
Cleanfeed enriches remote multitrack with Aux Outputs
For several years, I have been using and covering Cleanfeed as my preferred tool to carry out studio quality...
Filmmakers test Unreal Engine’s in‑camera VFX toolset
Recently, Epic Games and filmmakers’ collective Bullitt assembled a team to test out the latest in-camera VFX toolset in Unreal Engine. A...
Uploading to YouTube – is 4K worth it?
You’ve spent months editing and grading and finishing your beloved video. But now you have to upload it to...
Canon and IBM: using volumetric video to promote visual arts
A performance of the Noh play Lady Aoi, directed by the Hoshokai, is the inaugural project for Canon and...
Lens hacking
Often, people who can’t afford a set of Sigma Classic primes will ask whether a set of low-cost stills...
First look: YoloBox Pro touchscreen video switcher-recorder-streaming encoder to surpass the original
You may recall that in October 2020, I reviewed the first YoloBox, a standalone touchscreen 7-inch video switcher-recorder-streaming encoder....
RØDECaster graduates to palindromic 2.1.2 with free firmware update
Frequent readers know that I have been covering (and using) the 48-kHz exclusive RØDECaster Pro audio mixer/recorder/virtual cart player...
Frame & Reference Podcast: Lens Month w/ Zero Optik Founder Alex Nelson
Welcome to our second episode of Lens Month! This week, Kenny talks with Alex Nelson of Zero Optik. Zero...
Crossing the 180 Podcast with “In the Heights” DP Alice Brooks
In this episode of Crossing the 180 we have Alice Brooks, director of photography for Jon Chu’s adaptation of...
Bell 47G-2 “Telecopter”: the first flying TV studio first flew 63 years ago
On July 4, 1958, when the first images from the hand-held camera onboard the helicopter were received by the...
Nikon’s Retro Z fc, Canon’s Latest EOS R Zoom, and the Summer of 4K … ?
Editor’s Note: Compiled by industry veteran Bryant Frazer, PVC’s Production Camera Round-ups collects the latest production camera news, updates,...
The Day After the Eve of Destruction – Our experience with the recent QNAP server attack
I’m heading to a shoot and my phone rings. It’s Jake, my senior producer. “Boss, I think we’ve been...
Hindenburg replaces Soundflower with its own virtual audio device
Frequent readers will recall that back in January 2018, I published an article called How to install/update Hindenburg Journalist...
A lens I’d like – One lens for a single chip camera
It’s hard to object to the way moving picture production has drifted away from small-sensor, three-chip cameras toward single,...