Notes On Video

How Not To Market Your Movie | Jason Brubaker | Filmmaking Stuff Nobody cares about your movie unless they care about your movie. Stop sending long emails talking all about YOU. What’s in it for me? Really? You want to make another no-budget drama with no star talent? Usain Bolt Took a Bunch of Photos with a Swedish Guy's Camera. Who Owns the Rights to the Sprinter's Snapshots? | Krystal Bonner | Slate Under most countries' intellectual property laws, including the United Kingdom’s, the person who actually pushed the button owns the photograph, unless the work was made for hire. That means Wixtröm technically does not own the copyright to Bolt’s photos, unless he and the sprinter negotiated a rights transfer in writing. F3 Act II | The Sony Tech Guy | Pro Video Coalition A wrap-up on the updates to the Sony PMW-F3 which were announced a couple of months ago. Also the  CBK-MH01 which appears to "just" be a monitor hood; rather expensive at $619.95. ...

Anatomy of a Grade - Ep 09 - The "Bleachy Western Look" | Chris Hall | Vimeo A tutorial for DaVinci Resolve ; though I think you'll need to know Resolve to follow along: Colorist Chris Hall demonstrates a "Bleach Bypass" effect on a period Western film. Special thanks to DP Andrew Russo (awrusso.com/) for the great photography! Fixing A little “Got-cha!” in the LightWorks to Premiere Finishing Workflow | Peter J. Haas | aBlogAbout.Haas Peter is using an interesting workflow from Lightworks to Premiere : I’m currently cutting a feature documentary in EditShare’s latest Pro version of LightWorks, and we’re very interested in revisiting this workflow for finishing. We were running some tests yesterday and noticed a interesting little bug in the workflow we hadn’t noticed before. After a successful import of the AAF sequence into Premiere, the media relinking kept returning an error for files we knew matched. It didn’t seem to be an issue with the AAF, ...

If you were buying a camera at the moment, which one of those two would you pick? That is a question that seems to keep coming up the last couple of weeks, and I ended up discussing it again last night with someone trying to make that decision. No conclusions were reached; I think part of the problem is that the head says "The Sony NEX-FS700  [$7,999] is half the price of the Canon  C300  [$15,999], it doesn't make sense to get the C300 " but the heart says "Yeah, but get the C300 !" As I see it, the pros and cons of the cameras (compared to one another, not to other cameras) are: Sony FS700 Pros: Price (half the price) High Speed (Super-slow mo) Supports wide range of lenses 4K maybe[1] Cons: No idea what the 4K costs Support for Canon EF lenses limited by the lens adapter capabilities LCD panel positioning is limited AVCHD compression[2] [1] Still no info on when, what cost, and what cost for the hardware. [2] Some people think AVCHD isn'...

Big Ass Light Test at EVS | Chris Collins | Wide Open Cameras Testing different film lights; with example video: We decided to gather as many edison plug film lights and put them against one another. We tested tungsten lights, LEDs, HMIs, and flourescents. We kept it simple: we lit our subject, Simone, with each light without any diffusion and through a 2×3 silk. Everything took place inside a 12×12 black duvatyne tent. Everything was shot on a Sony Fs100 with Metabones adapter and Zeiss ZE 35mm. Take a look at the results… Canon EOS 7D Firmware 2.0 Available for Download | CanonRumors Finally! Manual audio gain for the 7D : *Note At the time of posting, the firmware was not available if you select Mac OS X Mountain Lion, select Lion instead. Quick review of the Sony PMW 200 and a ten minute challenge! | Philip Bloom | Blog The PMW-200  [$6,299] is billed as the replacement for the PMW-EX1 [$5,899]. Philip seems to like it: Unfortunately, having never shot with th...

Last night the trackpad on my MacBook Pro started to misbehave. It acted like I was double-clicking or just clicking, nearly all the time. Context menus would open randomly, and it kept selecting parts of the web page as I tried to scroll though it. This started out as a slight annoyance, and quickly got worse. While it was still - almost - manageable, I went into System Preferences to see if I could turn off or adjust some of the behavior there. That didn't work. I tried attaching a mouse. That worked for about five minutes, before that too was being stymied by the behavior of the trackpad, which was still detecting mouse clicks and presses randomly. It became worse and worse, and operating the computer became an adventure; it was like I had a mad three-year old clicking at things as I was working. Applications I was trying to launch were removed from the dock, other applications were opening unintentionally, and it was switching from one application window to another as I d...

DaVinci Resolve 9: How To Upgrade the Pain-Free Way (plus 5 favorite features) | Patrick Inhofer | Tao Of Color The biggest problems I’ve had is when I upgraded an existing database and started working within that database. All sorts of funkiness would happen. Features wouldn’t work, buttons wouldn’t activate, projects would get flakey. The easiest way to avoid those problems? Create a brand-new fresh database Backup the old database Upgrade the old database Import any existing project into the new database. “Anniversary Day” 1st Boston 3 Minute Short Film Challenge | Rick Macomber | Macomber Productions Rick has posted his own blog on the 3 Minute Film Challenge: Sean had what I consider to be the best light – the magic hour – for his story, as you will see below. I thought he dealt with the changes in the afternoon/evening light very well in the time he had to finish. The C300 also performs very well in low light conditions. The only lights we used on Sean’s sh...

Vintage VS New Lens Shoot Out! | Steve Oakley Check out 2 new lenses against some 20 to 30 year old vintage glass. Surprising results in shooting resolution charts and real world images. In the mix are the Rokinon / Samyang 35 1.4 and Tamron 17-50 2.8 against classic vintage glass : vivitar 28 1.9, vivitar 28 f2 and kiron 28 f2 The Art and Technology of the PMW-F3 | Sony | Facebook Sony has released a new brochure on the PMW-F3 : NEW! PMW-F3 brochure with case studies, latest firmware information, features, and much more. Click here to download it: PMWF3 Brochure (PDF | 7.37 MB) Skin Deep | Matthew Allard | Vimeo Matt shot this video using the Sony PMW-F3 . Nokia PureView 808 Review (vs iPhone 4S) | Andrew Reid | EOSHD Before the iPhone I was very interested in camera phones and Japan was leading the way with stuff like the Sharp 903. It had an optical zoom, auto-focus and 3MP sensor as far back as 2002. The initially very poor 2MP camera on the first generation iPho...