It’s definitely time to start paying attention to Canon. Their DSLR cameras are making fantastic independent short films, they’re popping up on the sets of hit television shows and they’re finding their way onto blockbuster feature films. For this article, we are going to focus on how cinematographer Matthew Libatique utilized the Canon 5D Mark [...]
Not to make a political statement on an apolitical blog, but I can’t believe that the Senate just passed a bill that would force cable and broadcast companies to equalize and limit the volume of television commercials inline with programming. Don’t get me wrong, I totally hate those crappy screamer spots, usually of the used [...]
Appleinsider.com reposted a rumor originating from the French Apple site HardMac, stating that the new Final Cut Pro studio will not deliver until 2011. Allegedly, there has been some significant poaching of the Pro Apps staff by the iPad, iPhone divisions, as well as, fundamental differences of opinion between the Shake and Motion teams. The [...]
Have you seen the movie Human Centipede? The inhuman contraption made by the guys at ElSkid.com is just like the movie Human Centipede – except instead of surgically attaching 3 people together butt-to-face via their intestinal tracks…he fashioned two Canon DSLR’s together into one huge “beastly” rig. Come to think of it, it’s nothing like [...]
Go behind the scenes with Wheelhouse Creative and see what it takes to construct a documentary with Canon 7D cameras and Avid systems
The technology is called Plenoptic, and it’s a combination of special lenses and software that allow you to refocus your DSLR still in post production. The video below explains it as good as anything. Is there anything we can’t fix in photoshop nowadays?
Sony showcased two camera form factors at IBC this year. One is the DSLR hybrid they’ve been talking about since NAB, and the other is a pretty cool looking 3D camera. I’m impressed at the form factor revisions on the 35mm unit. Sony is locked in a DSLR/3D war right now with Panasonic for the [...]
Sony unveiled it’s next generation HDCAM SR camcorder this week with a few surprises. First off, you heard me right . . . I said camcorder! The SSRW-9000PL uses the identical Super 35 mm CCD sensor found in Sony’s high-end F35 camera, but the entire package is contained in one unit. There is no need [...]
I’m not very creative. There I said it. I tried to write a song once, and it was slightly less sophisticated than “Mary had a little lamb,” but slightly more inspired than most Nickelback songs. I’ve been working in this industry professionally for a decade, and I’ve been hiding that secret from anyone whom ever [...]
Twixtor is an Adobe After Effects plugin that is simply phenomenol at what it does, and what it does is allow you to simulate speeding up or slowing down footage to incredible frame rates. Twixtor enables you to speed up, slow down or frame rate convert your image sequences with visually stunning results. In order to achieve [...]
