Notes On Video

3 Minute Short Film Challenge BTS | Aaron Strader | Vimeo I already wrote about the 3 Minute FIlm Challenge ( Filmmaker :  INSIDE A THREE-MINUTE FILM COMPETITION ) but Aaron Strader made a Behind-The-Scenes video: I was asked at the beginning of the day to shoot a BTS by Paul Antico and Rick Macomber. Shot everything with my Canon 60d. Big thanks to Todd Mahoney for supplying me with great GoPro video! Part of the July 1, 2012 "Under 3 Minute Film Challenge" sponsored by Anticipate Media and Macomber Productions. For this challenge each cinematographer, using a pen as a prop, had to produce a narrative script and shoot it in a few hours on location at The Willows Park in Salem, MA. In addition the phrase "This isn't going to be easy" also had to be used in the story. 3 Minute Short Film Challenge BTS from Aaron Strader on Vimeo . Interview with the creator of the Automatic Speech Alignment feature in Audition CS6 | Ellen Wixted | Adobe Brian King

The next BIG THING is coming | Sony Professional | Facebook Sony Professional has posted the following graphic on their Facebook page and invited people to guess what's coming. Given that they say to stay tuned to www.sony.com/xdcam , it would appear to be some sort of professional video camera. Could it be a new version of the PMW-F3 ? Or 4K support for the NEX-FS700 ? Or something else entirely? Preparing for Battle as a No-Budget Filmmaker | LEWIS MCGREGOR | Dare Dreamer Lewis documents his low-budget production: There is a high chance that a no-budget filmmaker will have 3 things — a DSLR, a pirated copy of Adobe’s software, and an overall amount of knowledge of special effects from Video Copilot. When you start the film you start at the very bottom, once your cast has been cast, locations found and it comes to the end of your pre-production as a no-budget filmmaker you may have noticed you have solely inherited these responsibilities Epic Slow Mo with the Sony FS70

INSIDE A THREE-MINUTE FILM COMPETITION | Michael Murie | Filmmaker Magazine I finally finished the write-up of a recent gathering of local DPs and actors to shoot some quick projects. It's up on Filmmaker's site: Freelance videographer/filmmaker Sean Meehan had connected with Rick just two months earlier when Jared Abrahms had retweeted that Rick was looking for a shooter to assist on a documentary. For this event, “Rick put out that he was looking for some actors,” said Sean, “and I responded to him on Twitter asking, ‘What age range are you looking for? I might have some people.’ He told me the age range, and then in the second tweet right afterwards he said ‘Also, do you want to work with the C300 in a little while?’, and I jumped at it.” EXCLUSIVE: Blackmagic Answers Your Questions about Their New Cinema Camera | FilmmakerIQ An interview with Blackmagic President Dan May on the forthcoming Blackmagic Digital Cinema Camera : [BMD] We are just waiting finish a few

14-year veteran of the Saturday Night Live Film Unit, Alex Buomo will share how shooting with Canon DSLRs, along with the new Canon C300 has revolutionized the way he works. WHEN: Wednesday, August 1 5:30-6:30pm Food & Drinks 6:30-9pm Presentation with Alex Buono WHERE: WGBH Yawkey Theater One Guest Street, Brighton, MA RSVP : events@rule.com

“THE SOLAR ODYSSEY”: SHOOTING WITH THE SONY NEX-FS100, PART TWO | Michael Murie | Filmmaker Magazine The second part of an interview I did with Todd Mahoney about his experience with the Sony NEX-FS100: You were using the kit lens? Yes. The only problem with the kit lens is if you are trying to do a zoom pull, it’s very tight. It’s not smooth enough; that was the only downside of the lens. I think that with the FS700, when they make a lens for the rocker, that will solve that. Overview of Miller Compass series of tripods | Philip Bloom Philip looks at just some of the tripods he uses: A good tripod should be right up at the top of your list when you buy kit, along with some basic lighting and basic sound gear. Before a camera, before lenses. Why? Because these are not camera specific. They will also last you through multiple cameras. A good tripod will last a hell of a long time, that is if you spend money. I had been asked to recommend a good tripod recently for $100. I could

Adobe SpeedGrade CS6 provides powerful, advanced video color grading | Jeff Foster | MacWorld While it’s a powerful color grading and filmic effects creation tool with 3D stereographic finishing capabilities, it may not be for everyone, or practical to use on every video production you edit. The workflow takes some getting used to, but if its effects are needed, the learning curve will prove worthwhile. Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Review | Ron Risman | CameraTown Premiere Pro is not a consumer piece of software, and as such, it really shines when it has the necessary power, ram, and storage to let itself go. While Premiere Pro CS6 will run on most computers with a minimum of 4GB of memory, there are some basic hardware requirements that your PC should have to really allow the software to shine. First, your PC needs to have a 64-bit processor (most of the computers in the past 3-4 years do). Why Can't We Have Beautiful Digital Cinema Cameras? | Joe Marine | NoFilmSchool Article

The second part of Zacuto's Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout 2012 has been posted. To recap: In Part One of Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout 2012 you were presented with unlabeled footage of a complex party scene designed by Bruce Logan ASC, the test administrator. We heard form legendary DP’s in the industry talking about what being a “cinematographer” really means to them; in many cases challenging us to rethink our understanding of camera technology and how it relates to filmmaking–and how all of that relates to talent, creativity, collaboration and experience. In this episode you get to see the reactions of audiences to the tests, and you also learn which camera was which: After watching it, these were the takeaways for me: How subjective any test and comparison is How different DPs set things up differently, so the results were even more subjective. It's really impossible to produce a completely unbiased comparison While a couple of cameras visually stood

A Quick Hands-On with the Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera | CreativeVideo CVP in the UK got to see the prototype of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera [$2,995.00], and offer some thoughts: The first thing that everyone at CVP who hadn’t previously seen the camera at NAB said was “I really didn’t expect it to be that big!” – It seems that most people expect the Cinema Camera to be not much bigger than an iPhone, yet the reality is that it’s a fairly chunky unit that weighs in at a hefty 1.8Kg for the body only… At this weight it’s far heavier than an SLR and the lack of any natural handgrip position means that in standard form it’s really suitable for tripod mount use only. A new hands-on report with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera | Andrew Reid | EOSHD Andrew Reid offers his interpretations of CVP's thoughts: Raw (and even ProRes compared to highly compressed DSLR footage) allows you to bring up a hell of a lot of shadow detail. So even with a sensor rated at a native ISO of 400 r