Daredevil Filmmaking
Sundance Film Festival 2022: only for the fully vaccinated
In January 2022, the Sundance Film Festival will return to Utah, but those attending in person will have to...
Blackmagic Bows Studio Camera 4K Pro, ARRI Debuts Hi-5 Controller, and Cine Gear Moves Indoors
Editor’s Note: Compiled by industry veteran Bryant Frazer, PVC’s Production Camera Round-ups collects the latest production camera news, updates,...
Epic Games discusses their “magic” tools for Virtual Production
The team at Epic Games who are dedicated to finding better ways for filmmakers to work, share their experience...
Evaluating Household Bulbs for Cinema Use
In almost every application, LED lighting has fully taken over. You can’t even buy Tungsten Filament bulbs in California...
Prolycht Orion 300 FS sets new standards for your LED’s
In the pre-pandemic years, lighting fixtures for film and video production all seemed to all take on innovative attributes...
Mo-Sys: using Virtual Production to film a plane in a hangar
When creative production agency Papertown imagined an ambitious virtual production project featuring a passenger plane in a hangar, they...
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...