Studio Binder Lets You Send Out Call Sheets via Personalised Email & SMS
Production management and scheduling can easily become a nightmare to deal with. Call sheets, which are designed to get everyone in the cast and crew on the same page …
Tag: filmmaking
Impressive ‘Watchtower Of Turkey’ Merges Hyperlapse and Motion Video
An inspiring story, innovative ideas, stunning visuals, seamless editing, superb soundtrack these are just some of the requisite ingredients for a visually compelling masterpiece. It takes time, patience, dedication, talent, creative vision, and a lot of …
Editstock Gives You Access To Complete Footage From Indie Shorts, Scripts and Project Files
If editing is your passion and you want to access a library of complete footage and raw files from short films, scripts, and even project files, then you should consider …
How To Choose Decent Audio Reference Monitors
Audio monitors are an essential piece of equipment that is often overlooked by many filmmaking beginners and enthusiasts. Quality audio is a main asset in every production, whether it’s a short, documentary, commercial …
Replicating The Anamorphic Look in After Effects
As filmmakers we can always tell the difference between the “anamorphic look” and the one achieved with commonly used spherical lenses. The aberrations such as the long horizontal lens …
Tips On How To Hide Lights In Your Shot
The craft of setting up and arranging lights on set is paramount and one of the most valuable assets of your skill set as a cinematographer and filmmaker that also has a …
Display Calibration Using SMPTE Colour Bars
We all have seen those multi-colored vertical patterns that many different types of video equipment such as cameras, monitors editing and colour grading software generate, mainly known as SMPTE color bars. …
Benefits of Using LED Lighting For Your Next Project
LED (light-emitting diode) technology has been advancing by leaps and bounds in the last years offering incredible creative possibilities for filmmakers. The quality of light LEDs emit is enhancing vastly as …
To Rent or Buy Gear For Your Video Productions?
How many times have you been tempted by gear announcement or a freshly released brand new camera? These are the moments when you are ready to spend all your hard-earned cash that you’ve …
Improve Your Workflow & Speed Up Rendering Time in After Effects
How many times you have been experiencing frustration while rendering a composition in After Effects. Eventually, the things might get even worse if you are on the rush having a closing …
ProCam 2 iOS App Enables 4K Video Recording on iPhone 5S and Later
If you’re currently an owner of an iPhone 5S or later, and you’re considering the option to replace it and buy a smart phone that shoots 4K, it will probably …
DJI Ronin and CAME-7800 3-Axis Gimbals Side-by-Side Comparison
2015 may be the year of 4K, and while it may sound a bit prophetic, the signs are all here, but there’s no doubt that 2014 was the year …
How to Light a Movie Scene Using Only Two Lights
Achieving a compelling cinematic look is not as easy and simple task as it may seem. Every experienced DP will tell you that good lighting takes time. As a …
Stabilizing Shaky Footage in DaVinci Resolve
One of the less known features of Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve is the ability to stabilize shaky footage. Some people are seriously questioning whether the Stabilizer in Resolve performs as good …
Is a Hackintosh Good Enough For Real-Time 4K Editing?
Many people are wondering if it’s still worth investing (a lot of) money in an iMac or a Mac Pro these days or if it’s just better to build a Hackintosh PC running OSX …
When Is The Right Time to Replace Your Media Cards?
One of the most frustrating and annoying things that might happen to you on set is a sudden and unforeseen malfunction of your gear. The things could get even worse if the …
Sundance 2015 Films Shot on Blackmagic Design Cameras – Pocket Cinema Camera, BMPC, and BMCC
Each year towards the end of January, thousands of cinephiles, filmmakers and film biz heavyweights descend on snowy Park City, Utah for what is arguably the most important film …
Do You Want To Make A Small Indie Film Or Have a 9 to 5 Job?
This is one of the most frequently asked questions and the main dilemma many contemporary filmmakers face at the beginning of their career. The answer may be rhetorical for many of us, …
Optimizing Your Computer for 4K Editing and Colour Grading
The ability to edit and colour grade 4K footage comes with certain technical requirements that every video editor should be aware of. If you are on the market for a new …
Choose the Version of ProRes Best Suited to Your Project
No matter what kind of project you’ve been involved with over the years it’s more than likely that you have used ProRes, or any other type of intermediate codec at …
