$200 Craigslist Laptop vs $5K Workstation Editing in Premiere Pro
It’s a modern-day fable analogous to ‘The Tortoise and The Hare’. Can an old, used laptop that you bought off of Craigslist for $200 get to the finish line …
Author: Dave Kratz
How to Easily 3D Track Your Footage with Your Phone
If you’re an iPhone user, your phone just got a seriously dope upgrade. The iPhone is an amazing consumer photography tool, and with new generations coming out regularly it …
10 Best Features of the RED Komodo
Despite its miniature size, the RED Komodo is a hunk, a hunk of burning love. Even though some folks might not see it as the “King”, there are a …
Save Time and Speed Up Your Vlogging Workflow
Sometimes you hate them, endlessly talking about themselves and why they’re doing this video or that video for the first 2 minutes! But just because Vloggers don’t often get …
Sirui vs Vazen Anamorphic Lens Comparison
Sirui and Vazen produce lenses for two very different markets. Sirui makes affordable anamorphic lenses for beginners and indie filmmakers who love that magical movie look but are on …
How to Get Perfect Exposure on the Canon C200
The Canon C200 is a fantastic 12-bit Raw recording device that captures absolutely beautiful, classic-Canon colors and offers a lot of flexibility in post. Sometimes where shoots move quickly …
FiLMiC Pro 10-bit LOG V3 vs 8-bit LOGV2 – What Are the Differences?
Just when Sony and Canon started getting ahead of the game, Apple went and incorporated 10-bit LOG video capturing capabilities into the iPhone 12 Pro. I mean, most people …
8GB or 16GB RAM for Video Editing on a M1 Mac?
We all want to stare into the eyes of the past, vividly remembering those awful days when we were stuck in stale, dark edit rooms in some basement somewhere …
Best Free Video Editing Software for Mac or PC
Albert Einstein said, “Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.” Einstein was a pretty smart guy, but he didn’t know the first thing about editing …
Building a DIY Ronin Trinity Steadicam
Have you ever wanted something so badly, but then you saw the price tag you nearly sh*t yourself? I have. That’s how I felt the first time I saw …
How to Correctly Expose S-Log 3 on the Sony A7S III
As John Robert Wooden, the famous NCAA basketball coach, once famously said, “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it …
Most Popular Cine Lenses – the Ultimate Overview
Cinema lenses from companies like Zeiss, Panavision, and Cooke don’t get as much attention online as the affordable stills and modified/rehoused cinema glass that many of us use from …
Zhiyun Crane 2S and Weebill S are Now Much Better Gimbals
When it comes to gimbals, Zhiyun is second to nobody – except DJI, of course. But being number two isn’t always a bad thing. It lets you learn from …
How to Keep a Moving Object Centered in Premiere Pro 2020
Keyframing animations by hand is a tedious task, but this example of how to keep a moving object centered in Premiere by Javier Mercedes is well worth the extra …
Canon C70 vs C300 Mark III vs C500 Mark II Cine Camera Comparison
In a little over a year, Canon has released 3 professional cinema cameras that are uniquely positioned in an already complex and crowded camera market. The C500 II (released …
DJI RSC2 vs RS2 Side-by-Side Gimbal Comparison
“The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.” When the Dalai Lama said that, there is no way he could have been …
How to Use the Grid Effect in Resolve to Improve Your Edits
“We’ll fix it in post” – that is a statement never before made by anyone who actually works in post production. As the technology for filmmaking continues to advance, …
ARRI ALEXA 65 vs. ALEXA Mini – Large Format Look Test
A special fact about the spectacular image sensors that power the ALEXA, ALEXA LF, and the ALEXA 65 is that they are all exactly the same. Despite the size …
Check Out This Dope Lighting Hack Using Mirrors
You can endlessly toy and tinker, trying to add textured, cinematic lighting to an otherwise flat and boring scene, plugging countless lights into every outlet, setting up modifier after …
5 Things You All Wanted to Know About the Canon C70
Now that you’re growing as a filmmaker, you’ve probably started noticing there are a whole lot of cameras out there that can shoot some amazing video. The Canon C70 …