Notes On Video

FYI: You have until 8:15PM EDT today to buy the Bower 24mm f/1.4 Wide-Angle Lens fro $200 off (i.e. $499 down from $699.) It's available in several mounts including Canon, Nikon and Sony A Mount . Note that these are 'all manual' lenses. These lenses have gotten pretty good reviews based on their price. If you're only shooting video you might want to look at the special 'cine' version which has geared focus and aperture rings, and 'declicked' aperture ring. Unfortunately, that will set you back $749 .

Join Alex Buono at our official June BOSCPUG! | Boston Creative Pro User Group Saturday, June 15th Discounted prices for Alex's tutorials: BOSCPUG is excited to partner with Oscar nominee and DP of the Saturday Night Live Film Unit Alex Buono in Boston at The Art of Visual Storytelling Tour to deliver an intense educational overview of the artistic elements and core principles of cinematography. Taught by Alex, this all-day class features training that will dramatically increase the impact of your films. Designed for both DSLR and Cine-style filmmakers, this workshop will teach you advanced techniques for lighting, lens selection, blocking, camera movement, audio, workflow, camera settings, visual structure and more. ALEXIS VAN HURKMAN & DAVINCI RESOLVE 10 | Chris Portal A brief report from Wednesday's meeting of the BOSCPUG: The most interesting trend that came out of the discussion was, while most NLEs and 3rd party plug-in developers have worked over the year...

NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' Eyes Ultra-High-Def 4K | Hollywood Reporter Buono said that while more storage is required, 4K “has not [resulted in] a significant change in price.” The SNL film unit plans to continue to experiment with 4K going into next season, using new tools such as AJA’s Hi5-4K format converter. Councilwoman Castillo: Margo Guernsey on Making Her Feature-Length Political Documentary | Michael Murie | Filmmaker Magazine Margo Guernsey has produced promotional mini-docs and videos for a number of non-profits, but for her first feature-length project, “Councilwoman Castillo,” she is focusing on the story of a hotel housekeeper, Carmen Castillo, elected to the City Council in Providence, Rhode Island. The project will cover Castillo’s first three years in office starting with her election in November 2011. Legally Speaking, It Depends: Ripped From the Headlines | Script It is usually not a question whether a sensational story that captures the p...

I’ve written about Adobe’s move to subscriptions before , but I thought I’d take one last swing at it, and outline the primary reason why I think subscriptions are bad for customers and the industry. There’s been a lot of defense of Adobe’s move to subscription pricing. The common threads of the defense seem to be: It’s a good deal – which it is if you were buying the Master Collection and upgrading with every release, then it is a pretty good deal (at the current subscription rate.) If you can’t afford $50 a month, you’re a loser – certainly, if you’re a professional video producer and can’t afford $50 a month for the tools you use day-in and day-out, then you might want to reconsider your career choices. (But if your video passion is more of a hobby than a contact sport, $50 every month, can start to add up.) You’re already renting the software, so this isn’t really a change – well yes and no; all things being equal - and despite frequent OS changes and equipment updates -...

"Arnold Worldwide" (with Nicholas Agri) | NeedCreative Co-hosts Paul Antico of Anticipate Media and Ben Consoli of BC Media Productions talk the latest news in video production. Then they are joined by special guest from major advertising agency, Arnold Worldwide, Nick Agri. Nick talks all about the world of advertising, from the creation of campaigns to his specialized role as in house creator of content.  Choosing the Best DSLR for Video | DSLR Video Shooter Will you be shooting stills and video or just video? Is your filming indoors or outdoors? Do you film day in and day out? Or are you more of a hobbyist? Do you film long for content or quick clips and b-roll? These are all important questions to know before you purchase a camera. For example, if you film a lot of commercial work you will probably be shooting interviews in small offices.  Damon Lindelof |  On Story Season 3 Episode 6 (26:48 Minutes) Damon Lindelof discusses his hand in some of the mos...

Adobe's decision to move to an all-subscription model with the Creative Cloud is still creating headlines - at least on the internet.  In an article titled  The Entitled Filmmaker  | NextWaveDV ,  Tony Reale  takes on those complaining about the extra cost they'll be paying, and labels them as the entitlement generation, suggesting they are pretenders to the title of "pro." He even goes so far as to label them as thieves as well: I promise you there are people complaining about Adobe’s change to Creative Cloud that have never paid for a single copy of Adobe software ever. Actually, that's a bit of a theme for Tony: Tony Reale ‏@TonyReale 21 May I'm very curious how many of the #CreativeCloud naysayers are currently pirating their version of @Adobe software. #justsayin... Now, he's not suggesting everyone complaining has never paid retail for Adobe's software, but obviously he thinks there's a high statistical likelihood that this is the c...