Author: Shawn Steiner

Cameras like the Canon R5 and Sony a1 certainly changed the game for 8K video. Recording 8K is now more than just a dream for your everyday videographer or …

If you are a shooter/editor, you already know that you can often end up spending more time in front of a computer screen than behind your camera. Editing can …

Taking off with a drone and hitting a record isn’t going to guarantee those epic aerial videos you find online. Building on that, many of the auto-tracking options available …

Winter is here and now is the best time to upgrade your editing station. This could mean cleaning up a desk, organizing your data and getting fresh drives, or …

I’ll say it again, one of the best improvements to your workflow is finding ways to speed up common tasks. This could mean learning or programming a couple of …

Sony’s long-awaited a7S III is still capturing the attention of filmmakers today, many months after its initial release. The only thing about the camera that wasn’t too surprising is …

Smartphones are some of the fastest improving cameras on the market – it certainly helps that millions more are sold compared to cinema cameras. The iPhone 12 is actually …

Flicker can easily ruin a take and sometimes there’s nothing you can do about it while you are shooting. If you want to shoot some slow motion and some …

Not too long ago getting raw video was a daunting and expensive proposition. Now there are competing raw formats that work on your average laptop. We’ve come a long …

While cinema cameras have shrunk in size dramatically over the past five or so years, their menu options have only grown. Raw formats, compression, and autofocus are among the …

Color grading is the core that DaVinci Resolve was built on and surprisingly Blackmagic Design is still finding ways to add new tools to make that experience even better …

RED has never been known for their budget-friendly camera systems. Even their early “affordable” models only referred to base costs for the brain and didn’t include all the other …

Apple’s M1 chip is still turning heads when it comes to its performance. Things keep looking better and better for the Macs as more software is natively supporting the …

2020 was a killer year for cameras. There were a lot, and one of the most exciting was the RED KOMODO 6K – a (relatively) affordable compact solution from …

One thing Premiere Pro CC doesn’t have as a nice, built-in feature is capable motion tracking. It has some tools for doing thing, such as when you apply a …

There was a time when if you wanted to get serious about video editing the choices were Final Cut Pro or even Avid. Oh, how much things have changed. …

One difficult thing with filmmaking, especially lower-budget filmmaking, is controlling all aspects of the shot when you are shooting on location. Outdoors presents a particular problem in public spaces …

Fast storage is one of the better ways to improve editing performance. Sometimes the stuttering or delays you get aren’t because the computer itself is struggling, it’s because the …

Even with the mess that was 2020, the year did bring us tons of great cameras. Seriously. If this was a normal year we would’ve been impressed with the …

Apple launching the M1 chip was a huge moment. It also led to tons of questions about the real-world performance of the new MacBooks and Mac mini and whether …