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Buyer’s Brief: Portable Storage
In this Buyer’s Guide we examine a number of options for portable storage—products engineered to let you move and manage your media, whether you’re...
Issue 20
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TNDV Brings Multicamera Production to Reality TV
As reality TV’s ongoing success is tied to the unusual and unexpected, the nontraditional approach of mobile production specialist TNDV has proven an ideal...
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Rodeo FX Treatment Adds (More) Magic to ‘Birdman’
Using a combination of practical filmmaking and digital effects, director Alejandro González Iñárritu and director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC, managed to make...
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Freefly’s MoVI M10 Captures ‘Remand’ Footage
While shooting Remand, a mini-documentary directed by Andy Reale about Uganda’s judicial system, cinematographer John Pope toured Uganda’s largest maximum security prison. Employing Freefly’s...
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Illumination Adds AdderLink Infinity for ‘Minions’ Workflow
Illumination Entertainment, producers of the Despicable Me films and the upcoming spin-off Minions, invested in Adder Technology’s AdderLink Infinity to increase its production capacities....
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Take 2 Films Uses StorageDNA Archive for ‘Paddington’
Take 2 Films deployed StorageDNA’s DNA Evolution to manage data on the feature film Paddington, which was shot in the 4:3 ARRIRAW format. The...
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“In a City” Fuses Footage from Around the World
The short film “In a City,” shot with Samsung NX1 cameras, depicts diverse perspectives from seven different cities. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, with his open collaborative...
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Pseudo Echo Music Video Shoots with Blackmagic
Melbourne, Australia, production company Final Focus used the Blackmagic Production Camera 4K to shoot a music video for the band Pseudo Echo, the title...
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Victoria and Albert Museum Expands Online Video Initiatives
“Our online goal is to attract and engage with a larger, global audience,” says Andrew Lewis, V&A’s acting head of digital media.
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Professional-Quality POV Video: Action Cam Advances in GoPro’s HERO4 Black
It’s been a good year for GoPro. First, a segment on 60 Minutes, which has to be a first for a camera, followed by...
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Tips to Clip: February 2015
Inside the Box People are always saying we should think “outside the box,” so this column will share some of your unusual solutions to...
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Transmogrified: Look What They’ve Done to My Studio, Ma
We all love Larry Jordan, don’t we? Larry is an industry guru—was an editor, now an Apple FCP X and Adobe trainer. We meet...
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Managing and Moving Your Media: Tips for Preparing Your Files (and Formats) for Post
Here are some disciplines for handling media when moving your project across multiple applications.
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‘Inside Man’: Capturing the CNN Series with Canon’s EOS C300 and 5D Mark III
Hosted and produced by documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, the CNN series Inside Man is filmed across a wide range of locations, requiring cameras that...
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Imaging Innovations: The Next New Class of Cameras and Sensors
The design of a modern digital video camera comes down to the physics of the sensor and shutter, the software that controls colorimetry, and...
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Editor’s View: Streaming, Dreaming
The experimental video content that’s being produced for online and mobile viewing today is just amazing. I’m so interested to learn about each new...
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‘Antarctica: A Year on Ice’: Recording the Remarkable Environment (and Real Life) at the South Pole
This cinematic study of life at the South Pole consists of imagery shot over more than a decade, including over nine grueling winters.
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axle Video Enables Worldwide Access to Video Archive
Meg Hanley is an independent filmmaker and video editor based in Long Island, NY. Recently, Meg found herself in charge of a video archiving...
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Skull Bound TV Relies on Nexto DI Backup in the Field
When DP Jim Kinsey is shooting an episode of Skull Bound TV, a hunting and fishing show on the Sportsman Channel, often he is...
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AKiTiO Thunder Dock: A Marvel of Modern Technology
Just like you probably were, I was pretty stoked to add a nifty Apple iMac to my editing suite. Even more excited to plug...
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Cinematographer Takes ioSafe Rugged Portable to Extremes
In the middle of nowhere, I need my images and footage to live safely on an indestructible set of hard drives. There are no...
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Pomp&Clout Breathes Sigh of Relief with Small Tree Storage
Pomp&Clout, a Brooklyn-based design and media production company, recently had the opportunity to work on a music video (“Our Love”) for EDM artist Caribou....
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Spotlight: Crystal Moselle, Director, ‘The Wolfpack’
Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the...
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Christopher Webb Creates BMW Video with In-Camera Effects
Webb and his team developed optical mechanics, specialty camera motion rigs and animated lighting units.