Filmmaking
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For striking lighting results in a handheld design, the Ice Light 3 from Westcott provides professional photographers and videographers unlimited creative possibilities with a powerful LED light. Despite its compact and lightweight design, the Ice Light 3 delivers enhanced performance and high-quality lighting. Offered in both a RGBWW and bi-color option with a choice of a
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Streamline your pre- and post-production workflow with the Elgato Stream Deck. Reilly breaks down how the Stream Deck lineup can help maximize your productivity and customize your workflow. Would you add this to your pre-production and editing setup?
0:00 Why Use the Stream Deck?
0:43 Pre-Production
1:44 Postproduction & Customization
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There are countless brands putting out budget-friendly cinema lenses at the moment, but DZOFilm has separated itself from the pack with quality and consistency. Now the brand is making its biggest play yet at the professional space with the DZOFilm Arles series, T1.4 cinema lenses that cover full-frame and Vista Vision sensors. The look of the Arles attempts to bridge the gap between
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Steve Giralt breaks down how virtual production works, including how to control your virtual environment, motion control, how to light your scene, phantom track, and more.
0:00 - Today's Video Shoot
2:02 - Lighting the Unreal Scene
2:49 - Robots & Motion Control
4:20 - Camera & Lens
8:06 - Phantom Track
10:13 - Virtually Location Scout
12:52 - Live Demo
15:14 - Live Demo 2
16:25 - What's Next?
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What is virtual production, and how do you do it? Join Steve Giralt in his studio, The Garage, to learn the basics of virtual production, including its origins, gear, and much more.
0:00 - Cold Open
0:48 - In Today's Video
1:06 - Origins of Virtual Production
2:07 - Why Use Virtual Production?
4:28 - ICVFX (In-Camera Video Effects) LED Volume Virtual Production
5:20 - Hardware for Virtual Production
7:22 - Tracking System
7:34 - Master Clock
8:23 - Camera
8:48 - LED Wall Content
10:02 - Lighting
10:43 - Frustum Projection
12:15 - Wrapping Up
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If smartphone cameras are so great, why invest in an action camera? Jabari explains the benefits of having a dedicated action camera and why the GoPro HERO13 Black is the ultimate tool for adventurous filmmakers.
0:00-Test Footage
0:21-In This Video
1:04-Durability
1:52-Battery Life & Power
2:25-Video Specs
3:19-Rigging & Mounting
4:45-Final Thoughts
Every filmmaker in your life probably has a few basic wants—a million dollars to spend on their next project, a genius script idea that will send studio executives into a frenzy, and a special potion that will do away with the need for food, water, and sleep for as long as it takes to finish up an edit. If you can’t provide any of those, you can at least give them a gift that won’t sit on the shelf gathering dust. Read on for six gift ideas that might not have the shine of a new car but could be extremely beneficial for all of your giftee’s
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SmallRig collaborated with Gene Nagata (a.k.a. Potato Jet) to create his ideal tripod, and it just might be yours too! Join Nick for a quick look at this versatile, easy-to-use video tripod.
0:00 Intro
0:25 X-Clutch Legs
1:08 Height, Weight, & Load Capacity
1:33 Pan & Tilt Dampening
1:43 Tripod Head
2:03 Final Thoughts
Filming and recording the perfect scene and capturing every moment is fun, but when you're taking hours of raw footage, you'll find that your storage quickly fills up. Whether you are filming scenes large or small, offloading your scenes to an external storage solution can assist with not just holding data, but keeping it organized; this way you don't have piles of CFexpress cards laying around. Choosing your exact storage solution is imperative to revisiting your work, capturing plenty of B-roll, and managing your editing process. That is why
If you're a filmmaker who's constantly on the go, cranking out edits from hotel rooms and airports, you should probably get a Macbook Pro. If you're a filmmaker who mostly doesn't do their own editing and is mainly using a computer for writing, pre-production, and reviewing cuts, you can likely get away with using a Macbook Air or a Mac Mini. But what if you're a
Young filmmakers often obsess over hot new cameras and lenses, but longtime imagemakers know that lighting is often the cause of the real visual magic. Great lighting can transform drab compositions into all-time classics, and building out your lighting toolkit is an essential step in being able to create attention-grabbing cinematic images. What do you need to buy to make it happen? Read on for our advice.
Basic LED Lights: Monolights and Panels
Let’s
If you have ever wondered “What do I give to that student filmmaker about to embark on a career of moviemaking and content creation?” Fear not! I have compiled a list of gifts to cover the needs of your aspiring Spielberg, so you don’t have to.
There are many tools a budding cinema student may want to use. While many schools provide the big-ticket items such as cameras and lights, there are many other must-haves that often go overlooked. This list is going to focus on quantity so you can maximize your options and help expand your student’s
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Now that you've thoroughly planned your shoot during pre-production, it's time to get on set! Learn what it takes to make a video production run smoothly—such as the crew you'll need—mistakes to avoid, different types of shots, narrative continuity, audio recording, and more.
0:00 - Overview
0:38 - Production Assistant
1:25 - Video
7:59 - Sound
9:07 - Logistics
10:54 - Final Thoughts
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