Product News and Reviews
The Case for 8K Production and How to Manage That Monster Data
There are benefits to an 8K production that an increasing number of projects are taking advantage of.
Expertise
Video
Watch: Alister Chapman Explains Technology Terms (Keep Your Notebook Handy)
“This one is firmly for the geeks.”
Ebooks
Color Theory (and Practice): Download This Guide
“Simply put, color can affect us emotionally, psychologically and even physically, often without us becoming aware. Color in film can build harmony or tension...
Expertise
Why Remote Collaboration Is Here to Stay
The benefits are so compelling that it’s a safe bet that remote collaboration workflows will continue to expand, long after the current crisis has...
Expertise
What Does (Will) Video Production Even Look Like Now?
How do we safely resume operations, and how can you make a movie without congregating?
Expertise
What is Work Going to Look Like Post Pandemic? “Digital Transformation”… and More Dogs
The sudden transition has created many lessons learned and developed best practices for the most efficient ways to implement remote work policies.
Product Reviews
Has Remote Production Changed Production… Forever?
“It’s taken a pandemic to open the eyes of those not convinced about remote working. Our collective experience will change way we work forever.”
Expertise
High Dynamic Range (HDR): Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
De-mystifying this ubiquitous term
Expertise
A Timeline of Single-Take Cinematography
Here's a history of films that have used long takes to pack a powerful punch.
Distribution
360-Degree VR Documentaries Heighten Prospects for Non-Profits
"We sought to understand the charitable behavior profile of VR audiences, the effectiveness of 360 video compared to more traditional forms of advertising."
Expertise
Stay Indoors Information: Reviewing Relief Options for Media Professionals
Let’s discuss eligibility and benefits (and we’ve also compiled a number of other resources)
Expertise
“Full Frame” Sensors: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
What do people mean when they refer to “full-frame” when speaking about an image sensor for cinematography?
Product Reviews
8K: So Where Do We Go From Here?
Costs are falling all the time, experience is ramping up and the creative advantages are definitely starting to outweigh the financial negatives
Expertise
The Case for 8K Production and How to Manage That Monster Data
There’s no escaping the fact that 8K is four times as many pixels as 4K... but recording 8K is easier and less expensive than...
Video
Stay Indoors Education: Is It Possible to Build the Perfect Camera?
Philip Bloom has been asking social media what features would make up the “perfect camera.”
How To
Build the Real-Time Remote Editing Suite You Need Today
"As a narrative feature editor, working in real time with the director is an absolute must."
Video
Contained Chaos: Analyzing the Cinematography of “Parasite”
“In Parasite, every single shot drives home visually the vital themes of wealth, disparity and the myth of class mobility with every set constructed...
How To
Watch: Introduction to Color Grading in Adobe Premiere Pro
Creating different looks for your videos using the Lumetri Color Panel in Adobe Premiere Pro
Expertise
Understanding Color Gamut
"The gamut of a camera is everything that the camera can see or everything that the camera can capture."
Expertise
HFR: Yes, No, Maybe, Why? “Gemini Man” Technical Supervisor Answers Your Question(s)
“We've found is that the more detail you give to a viewer, the more their eyes like it.”
How To
Stay Indoors Education: Shane Hurlbut’s (Free!) Lighting Workshop
Hurlbut Academy offers its Illumination Tour Workshop, streamed online for free for the next three months
How To
The Impact of Infrared Imagery
Infrared cinematography, Hurlbut Academy explains in its latest tutorial, “is about finding another way to look at the world, about making viewers reassess their...
Product News and Reviews
What to Think About When You’re Thinking About a New HDR Monitor
“When picking an HDR monitor, these should be your top considerations.”
Product Reviews
2020 Best of Show Special Edition Awards Open for Nominations
Honoring and helping to promote outstanding new products introduced this spring.
Expertise
Codecs and Compression: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
Understanding audio and video signals are encoded into digital files using codecs—shorthand for compression/decompression.
How To
“College Behind Bars:” How Filmmakers Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein Gained Unprecedented Access for Their Documentary
Four-part PBS documentary series executive produced by Ken Burns follows prisoners through the Bard Prison Initiative, one of the most rigorous and effective prison...
Expertise
Come Together: How Video Can Keep Us Connected
“These new mediums for creativity and communication can, we hope, keep social distancing from making us truly distant.”
Product News and Reviews
Digital Video and Video Edge 2020 Best of Show Awards at NAB Show: Now Open for Nominations
From now until April 3, exhibitors can nominate new products for awards presented by Future publications including Digital Video and Video Edge
Expertise
Watch: Technology Year in Review: Wasn’t the Future Wonderful?
Mark Schubin reviews the advances of 2019 as motion imaging enters its 144th year:
Expertise
Is Full Frame the Future?
“All the major brands are bringing out professional digital cinema cameras packing full-frame in more affordable packages.”
Expertise
Video Technology in 2020: What May/Could/Definitely Will Happen, and How It’ll Impact Your Workflow
A series of articles designed to put new and emerging video technologies into perspective
Expertise
Watch This: The Impact of HDR — On Set, in Post and With Displays
Technologists and creatives address the benefits and the current challenges when working with HDR.
Product News and Reviews
Every NLE Is a Database (digitalfilms)
"The bottom line is that under the hood, all NLEs are still very much the same."
B&H’s Video Gear Gift Guide
With the exception of one product, all products presented are under $300.
How To
Dispelling Three Common Myths About Shooting Raw (Frame.io Insider)
Michael Cioni, Frame.io’s new global SVP of innovation, breaks down three common myths about Raw workflows on the company’s ‘Insider’ blog.
Video Technology 2020 – Cameras
These are the developments to watch in camera technologies during 2020: resolution, raw codecs, and mobile filmmaking.
How To
Color Correction for Beginners Using DaVinci Resolve 16
For total color correction newbies, colorist Casey Faris provides a good, quick, basic overview of how to begin using DaVinci Resolve 16.
Product News and Reviews
Three New Cameras We’d Like to See Released in 2020 (PremiumBeat)
The anticipated and rumored releases of three new cameras would usher in a new decade of unprecedented advancement in video capture technology.
Video
Watch: How the “Continuous Shot” Epic “1917” Was Planned and Produced
Inside Roger Deakins and Sam Mendes' cinematic ingenuity
Creative Inspiration
“The Camera Writes:” Cinematographers Discuss the Year’s Biggest Films
Rodrigo Prieto, Roger Deakins, Caleb Deschanel, Robert Richardson, César Charlone and Natasha Braier gather for The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Cinematographer Roundtable.
How To
Learn How To Break the Rules of Filmmaking Like a Pro
Breaking the rules of cinema — with intention — can surprise and engage your audience on an emotional level.
Expertise
A Brief History of “One-Shot” Films (No Film School)
"The one-shot method is arguably at its best when it’s used to immerse viewers in realistic stories with high emotional stakes."