Author: Shawn Steiner

Compact, full-frame, and with excellent video specs? Sign me up! At least that’s what the Panasonic LUMIX S5 promises on paper – a bunch of top-notch video and photo …

Mirrorless and hybrid cameras have been a huge, and beneficial, change for independent filmmaking and video production, especially now with cameras like the Panasonic S1H getting Netflix certification. Unfortunately, …

Computer tech moves quick. Real quick. After couple years (or months in some cases), even a top-of-the-line model can quickly lose its shine. It also means that if you …

The world is changing. But here at least I get to focus on the cinema world.  It seems RED is once again poised to shake things up with a …

For years if you wanted to find the best on-camera microphone the answer was always the Rode VideoMic—whichever variation happened to exist and fit your budget at the time. …

Sony certainly surprised us all with just how good the a7S III turned out to be. There was a lot of worry about Sony trying to protect their high-end …

Bigger sensors mean bigger cameras right? Apparently not since the release of the Panasonic S5 and its full-frame sensor packed into a body smaller than even the Micro Four …

There is a lot to know about video editing and finishing. Editing and color grading tend to get the most attention as they are the flashiest bits of the …

Everyone knows that the best filmmaking investments are lenses. Glass lasts. Cameras get replaced. Unfortunately, until recently, the only way to get good lenses was to throw down a …

Canon impressed all when they released the EOS C200 Cinema Camera. It did internal 4K Raw – and it was (relatively) affordable! Sure, it cut down on some features …

Speed ramping has become more and more common, especially since it is so easy to do in modern editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro. The quick techniques allowed by …

New and experienced editors have likely asked themselves, “What NLE should I be using?” In the past decade, I went from Final Cut Pro 7 to Avid Media Composer …

The past few months have been a near-constant stream of exciting camera news. It has completely changed the camera landscape and now we all had to check out all …

Editors spend a lot of time, well, editing. If you are a beginner or amateur you may end up spending a lot more time editing than professionals since you …

It’s no secret at this point that recording times on the just-released Canon R5 are going to be somewhat limited by heat. Canon themselves even released a document showcasing …

When rumors started popping up about Sony potentially using a smaller CFexpress format in the a7S III I got worried. I am fortunate enough to be deep enough in …

Something that almost never gets old is watching professionals duke it out against beginners and amateurs. Sometimes it’s fun to see how much better they do or how surprisingly …

I think we are all hopeful that some sense of normalcy will return sooner rather than later. And there is some evidence to support some parts of the world …

If you haven’t heard, Apple has recently refreshed the standard 27” iMac with 5K Retina Display. It still has the same look as it has had for years – …

If it hasn’t been said enough already, the Sony a7S III is actually for real here! It’s been a long five-year wait and now the question is whether or …