Notes On Video

Why I Sold My RED and Downgraded to a C100 | F Stoppers Interesting article about choosing the Canon C100 over a RED. Has prompted a lot of comments! After using the c100, I realize how wrong I was. In my opinion, the Canon C100 is the best of both worlds: A sharp and dynamic image in a compact body with professional audio inputs and amazing battery life/record time. The new Final Cut Pro release is out: Final Cut Pro X 10.1 | Philip Hodgetts As well as beefed up 4K support, making the best use possible of the dual GPUs in the new Mac Pro, additional language support, improved XML and a long list of other features, 10.1 gains some seriously useful media management and project organizational tools, plus improved editorial functions. 10.1 is for OS X 10.9 Mavericks only. What's News | Apple Final Cut Pro 10.1 - A First Look by Steve Martin & Mark Spencer | FCP.Co Final Cut Pro 10.1 is the next major step forward for Apple’s professional editing software Final ...

Introducing Amazon Storybuilder | Amazon A free, screenwriting tool that helps you build stories for Movies or TV. What is Amazon Storybuilder? Amazon Storybuilder is a cloud-based writing tool from Amazon Studios that can be used to create stories for Movies or TV. Amazon Storybuilder uses “notecards” to represent a single beat or event in a story, just as screenwriters have for years used actual physical notecards to represent story beats on corkboards around the world. Storybuilder notecards can include both text and images. You can string individual cards together into a sequence on a virtual “corkboard” to convey a narrative and tell your story. Unlike physical notecards, it is easy to share Storybuilder projects and it is easy to take them wherever you go with your laptop, phone, tablet or Kindle. Blackmagic 4K Production Camera – First Sample Videos from Grant Petty | EOSHD The first 4K images are rolling off the 4K production camera, shot by Grant Petty himself no...

Digital Bolex D16 Review Part 1: First Impressions (And How You Can Order One Right Now) | No Film School The camera does a very good job combining color temperatures in the same frame. This doesn’t always look right with certain camera systems, but it was a particular strength of film — and it certainly looks like a strength of the D16. 10 VIDEO EDITING HABITS TO GIVE UP | Videomaker It's no lie, video editing can be messy. It's also a bad habit. That doesn't mean a video editor has to like it or live there. A video editor who keeps their workspace, virtual space, and their projects well organized will be more proficient. I Am No Longer Going To Produce Films For My Living | Ted Hope I have decided I am no longer going to produce films for my living.  To do so requires me to deliver quantity over quality. Or to not contribute as fully as I like since I won’t be fairly compensated.  Or to make something that is virtually guaranteed to not have the cultural im...

Revising Your Script: The Evolution of Even The Dogs Know | Filmmaker Magazine Intrigued by how the script had evolved, and because Capodiferro had worked on the script through several screenwriting classes and workshops, I asked him if he would explain the evolutionary process of the script in more detail 88 CINEMATOGRAPHERS SHARE THE BEST PROFESSIONAL ADVICE THEY’VE EVER RECEIVED | The Black And Blue At the suggestion of reader Martin Warrilow, I went through AC magazine’s online archives and pulled the answers to this question from 88 different cinematographers. Some are well-known while others are still under the radar. Yet all have crucial insight, wisdom, and knowledge to share that could help you in your filmmaking career. DIY Monday: Telling the Truth Without Paying for it | MovieMaker Most documentaries show some slant in the way they present a story to further their theses. Likewise, fictionalization of true events in a narrative film can result in the altering...

Exploring a 4K workflow in FCPX | HD Warrior Philip Johnston got to play with the Sony 4K Camcorder, the  FDR-AX1 ($4,498). But then he had problems with editing the footage in Final Cut Pro X (readers suggested trying something else) and decided that the 4:2:0 8bit color isn't good enough, so he's going to try for the professional version of the camera, the PXW-Z100 ($5,499). More troubling (and rumored when it was released) the sensitivity of the camera is lower than similar HD cameras. A reader comment in the post notes: It is about 1 or 2 stops slower than the NX5U depending on the available light.  So maybe you should stick with HD for the moment... Death of the Canon 7D? Canon Rumors has run a couple of posts about the future of the Canon 7D. The first reports a rumor that there will be no Canon 7D Mark II , while the second consists of thought's about whether it can really be true that Canon is abandoning this segment: This got me thinking today wh...