Five Green Screen Setups for Your Home Studio
Green screens are the most versatile accessory you can work with during filming. Also known as chroma key technology, green screens can superimpose your subjects against any background. The …
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How to Edit a Video to Make it Look Professional?
Editing a video is usually the last step before it is delivered to be viewed. To improve the footage, the method normally entails manipulating or rearranging video clips. Professional …
Award Winning Feature Charter Graded in DaVinci Resolve
Directed by Amanda Kernell, Charter follows the dramatic events of a divorcee on the run, after abducting her children amidst a custody battle. Sweden’s entry for Best International Feature …
Get 20% OFF Your First Purchase from Pond5 + Free Media Challenge
The world’s largest marketplace for stock footage and music now offers a 20% discount for its first-time customers. So, if you have never used Pond5 services for some reason, …
Less Than 24 Hours to Enroll in The Art Of Trailer Editing
Guys, this just a quick heads up that the enrollment for The Art of Trailer Editing closes later tonight at 11:59pm Pacific. For those of you who still might …
$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 …
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 …
ASTODI – а New Perspective on Cloud-Based Content Management
Half of the content producers (photographers, video editors) state that they could only guess what they have in their possession while three-quarters of them would like to share media …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
Resolve 17 HDR Settings and DaVinci Wide Gamut Explained
The software sorcerers over in Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve team are always cooking up tasty new tricks to improve the user experience and the functionality of their killer color grading …
Here’s How You Can Green Screen Any Video Using AI
Green Screening, or chromakeying, even in a studio can sometimes present unforeseen complications. The wrong shirt color, glasses, or a bad, frizzy hair day can cost you hours in …
3 Dope Color Grading Tricks in Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro is an editing application that can do it all but like every other jack-of-all-trades, it can sometimes be a master of none. It is a real …