Author: Shawn Steiner
All the time is the best time to learn new tips and tricks for your NLE. Considering many people are working with the Adobe suite and use Premiere Pro …
More and more filmmakers and editors are working on the move or need to put things together quickly on set. As much as we would like, dragging a Mac …
Sony added a ton of awesome stuff to the a7S III. They kinda had to consider this camera is coming out way later than everyone expected them to release …
A huge selling point of the RED KOMODO 6K is that it promised to be ready to shoot and relatively affordable. This is very different from regular RED cameras …
If you are reading 4K Shooters, you are likely unsurprised by the notion that mirrorless cameras have become strong competitors to cinema cameras when it comes to video quality. …
Sometimes you want the light to be somewhere it just can’t be otherwise you will ruin the shot. Moving a soft light just a hair closer to your subject …
Ah, the venerable green screen. Many of the biggest movies of the past couple decades relied so heavily on the technology to create the incredible special effects. Making all …
I think it is safe to say that the Sony a7S III is in the running for the title of best video-shooting mirrorless camera. It may even be better …
Replacing an actor with someone else is a really cool trick if you can pull it off. You can do it to create some fun scenes or shots that …
This has been an incredible year for camera releases. That also makes the buying decision a lot more complicated. The Sony a7C in particular is a challenge to compare …
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, …
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 …