Abel Cine offers New Mattebox System for Canon 5D Mark II
On a recent shoot with the Canon 5D Mark II I lamented the lack of properly-sized donuts. Now, thanks...
My First Shoot with the Canon 5D
The Canon 5D is a cinematic nightmare. In movie mode it’s hard to see focus, difficult to set exposure,...
After FCP7/FCS3… we still need DVKitchen!
Final Cut Pro 7 fortunately now offers many inboard “sharing” features which were very weak or non-existent before. Now...
Newsletter News
Earlier in August we published our third PVC Pipeline | Distribution newsletter, which included a review of the Sony...
Sorenson Squeeze 5.1 Review
PVC Reviews – The Backstory There’s been some back-room discussion amongst the PVC writers about reviews. The general consensus...
RED+FCP: 3-channel Audio NG in STP
Just a quick note: I took a short piece shot on RED and sent the FCP edit into Soundtrack...
Netflix vs Redbox rivalry shaping up
Have you seen those red kiosks at Walmart and McDonalds locations across the US? If not, you probably will...
Please label tapes and disks: An open letter to DPs, camera ops, DITs
Man, there are a lot of high definition formats out in the world today. Just to spell them out...
Black Glimmerglass and Hollywood Black Magic Filter Tests
World-class camera assistant Mako Koiwai recently shot a camera test with two new sets of diffusion filters: Black Glimmerglass...
It’s the End of the World as We Know It…
I posted a fun little video about creating a shoulder mount rig for the iPhone 3G S on Friday....
