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As you may have heard, the twittergeist/blogosphere was blowing up yesterday based on two big announcements.  One by Canon, one by Red.  Both companies revealed new digital cinematography cameras aimed at budding and established filmmakers.
Canon’s C300 was widely anticipated since the company’s 5D/7D DSLRs have been all the rage for videographers for several years – [...]

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“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is [...]

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Whoa! This thing is pretty cool looking. The Panasonic HDC-Z10000, is a ridiculously named, alphabet soup, camcorder that looks pretty sweet. It shoots “glasses-less 3D” using dual lenses and dual CMOS sensors, while also allowing you to shoot 2D 1920×1080/24p material as well using a new modified AVCHD 3D spec. Camcorders like this will greatly [...]

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If you’re into visual effects, no doubt you’ve stumbled upon Andrew Kramer’s work online. His Video CoPilot series is an amazing educational site for visual effects artists interested in learning new After Effects and 3D modeling techniques. Video CoPilot’s latest endeavor is into the iPhone app world. Why? Because they were bored.
What Andrew and his [...]

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Love the movie Inception?  Me too.  Check out this behind the scenes documentary on how they created the spinning hotel room fight scene.
Spoiler Alert! You can’t afford it.

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Here’s a quick look at how the sound design team for the Summer blockbuster movie, Transformers 3, created their ear drum shattering goodness. Making your own sound effects can be fun and budget friendly.
Sure sounds good, but can you stomach the movie?

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So, if you’re reading this blog, the controversy surrounding FCPX is not new to you. If you make a living using an Apple computer and Final Cut, then you had been waiting with baited breath for this release. You knew it was going to be different. You knew it was going to be 64 bit. [...]

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This is a great video featuring the awesome super high speed abilities of the Phantom Flex digital camera. It also looks like they had a good time being bored.

“…but it’s cheaper down the road.” -client
“I know, and I don’t care” – me

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I am blown away by what creative minds can do sometimes. French filmmaker Mathieu Weschler compiled/edited and sound designed his film, The Trashmaster using only clips from the videogame Grand Theft Auto. It’s like a cinematic editing master class. Did I watch the whole thing? No, but it’s still impressive.

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