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Buyer’s Brief: Monitors
In this Buyer’s Guide we examine a number of versatile options for video monitoring. Delvcam DELV-4KSDI15 Designed for live and postproduction operations, the Delvcam...
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‘Foo Fighters Sonic Highways’ Gets in Gear with Avid
The Foo Fighters Sonic Highways postproduction team used Avid tools to assemble the HBO documentary series, which sees the band travel to music studios...
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Spotlight: Ron Fortunato, Cinematographer, ‘Elementary’
Elementary is a CBS crime drama series that puts a contemporary spin on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes characters, with Lucy Liu playing...
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Thirty Seconds to Mars Tour Recorded with BMPCC
K.C. Lauf, videographer/cinematographer for the band Thirty Seconds to Mars, used Blackmagic Design’s Pocket Cinema Camera to capture every moment, both on stage and...
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CNN’s ‘Chicagoland’ Captured with Canon C300 Cameras
For Chicagoland, an eight-part unscripted CNN series from Brick City Television that examines public safety and education, cinematographer Mark Benjamin relied on Canon’s EOS...
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‘Rosewater’ Uses Aframe for Remote Production
Production and post services company Sixteen19 used Aframe’s video production platform to expedite digital dailies delivery for Jon Stewart’s film Rosewater. During production, Sixteen19...
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Encore Completes Dailies and Post for ‘Olive Kitteridge’
For the production of the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge, directed by Lisa Cholodenko, Encore provided dailies, conform, color and supportive visual effects. Although most...
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Flotation Device: Achieving Smoothed Moves with ProAm USA’s Autopilot
The ProAm USA Autopilot is a compact, lightweight camera stabilizer designed to eliminate unwanted camera movement with a minimum of mechanical intervention. It provides...
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Staying Focused in the Field: Marshall’s V-LCD71MD Is a Modular, Well-Made Monitor
Trying to focus with only a camera’s viewfinder or 3.5-inch flip-out display can lead to disappointment at edit time as you discover that critical...
Slideshows
‘A Most Violent Year’: Bradford Young Develops a “Visual Personification” of NYC, 1981
A Most Violent Year tells the story of an immigrant in New York City fighting to protect his business and his family in 1981—statistically,...
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Updated Audio Tools for Video Editors: Expand Your Arsenal with New Plug-Ins and Applications
Most video editors can get by with the audio editing tools that are built into their NLE systems, but if you want that extra...
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’12 Monkeys’ Time Travels to 2015: The Science Fiction Tale Is Reimagined as a Syfy Series
In conversations about the look of the show, the production team realized the necessity of adopting distinct thematic elements to represent each time period,...
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‘The Imitation Game’: Editor William Goldenberg Pieces Together the Puzzle
Alan Turing is not well known, especially in the United States, but his invention—a computer that cracked Nazi codes—is credited with shortening the duration...
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Tips to Clip: January 2015
Back Focus Instruction I recently offered a back focus chart to anyone who sent me an e-mail, but, as Greg Goodwin of Jacksonville, Fla.,...
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What a Feeling: Being’s Believing
I wrote about my new Sony PXW-X70 video camera—you know, all the facts and figures stuff that Digital Video’s Ned Soltz is so good...
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Production with Blackmagic Design’s URSA: Integrated, Innovative and Intended for User Upgrades
Among URSA’s many outstanding features, one of the more significant is that it’s user-upgradeable.
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Editor’s View: Secret History
As someone involved in video production, whether nonfiction or narrative, you should make time to see what I think is the most important film...
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‘Wild’ Life: Yves Bélanger Captures Emotion, Motion and Mountain Ranges (All While Walking Backwards)
"It’s very corny but I’m proud of every shot in the movie," Bélanger says.
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Timur Civan Shoots “Cymatics” with SmallHD Monitor Support
When director of photography Timur Civan faced the challenge of shooting the music video “Cymatics: Science vs. Music” by Nigel Stanford with two dissimilar...
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‘The Goldbergs’ Goes for Blackmagic SmartView Duo
As the production sound mixer for ABC’s The Goldbergs, you would think Richard Mercado, CAS, would rely completely on his ears. But it just...
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Video Press Kit for iHeartRadio Delivered with Atomos Products
In our most recent project for Clear Channel, Crazy Duck was assigned the task of creating video press kits for the iHeartRadio Music Awards...
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Helicopter Reporter Flies High with Marshall Monitor
“It sure beats working for a living.” That’s how I describe Chopperguy, our aerial video business. We shoot HD aerial video with a gyro-stabilized...
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NYC Sports Broadcaster Gets Clarity with Plura Monitors
SportsNet New York, known to viewers as SNY, is the official television home of the New York Mets, Jets and all things New York...
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DIT Dave Satin Depends on Sony Reference Monitors
As a 30-year veteran of the film and video business, I know my way around professional technology and equipment. I can attest to the...