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Maximising Your DSLR Camera Resolution When Shooting Green Screen

Tweet Jack Grundy with some tips on maximizing camera reslultion when shooting Green and Blue Screen footage with a DSLR camera to get the best reuslt when keying in After Effects and other compositors. “In this video we’ll discuss a very simple method you can use to increase the quality of the footage you shoot [...]

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Interview With Ian Vertovec Digital Colorist for The Social Network

Tweet The Quantel Blog posts a brief interview with Ian Vertovec, the co-founder of Light Iron Digital and the Supervising DI Colorist behind 2010?s feted drama “The Social Network” discussion Digital Intermediates, his thoughts on 3D stereo, and where tools for Colorists are going in the future. Check out the interview here. “Ian Vertovec is [...]

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details on the foundry’s storm

Tweet The Foundry’s Simon Robinson describes a bit introducing their new product called Storm at the IBC show, which is highly talked about by Red nerds all over the place. The Foundry have chosen this year’s IBC show to give the first public demonstrations of their brand new digital production hub, STORM. Also check out [...]

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two DIY create your own white box tutorials

Tweet Adam Everett Miller in this AEtuts tutorial demonstrating how to create a White Box which will allow you to take awesome close up photos in a seamless “Matrix-like” space. There is plenty of information on the web on how to create a White Box so I don’t claim to have “come up with” this [...]

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frankencamera platform for computational photography

Tweet I have been wondering why there is no such thing really as an open source camera where the camera would be able to do all kids of wonderful things while taking a picture, or after taking a picture. This thought process stemmed from my attempt to find a “lomo” style digital camera, when all [...]

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making of the trainer, canon 5D

Tweet Clayton Jacobson’s  insight into using the canon EOS 5D while shooting a short documentary on his father boxing gym – more of a promo piece than a behind the scenes or making of, but its great to see the shots right out of the camera and looking sweet.

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interview with fede alvarez, creator of panic attack

Tweet Director’s notes episode 154, delivers an audio interview with Fede Alvarez creator of the short film “panic Attack” that recently turned into a $30m feature deal with Ghost House Pictures, under the mentorship of director Sam Rami.

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rule #4, seatbelts.

Tweet A great article on the VFX of zombieland on AWN, interviewing Mark Breakspear, CIS’ visual effects supervisor.

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Skhizein, wonderfully illustrated short

Tweet Skhizein from Josef K. on Vimeo. Watch Skhizien, a beautifully illustrated 13 minute french short film directed by Jeremy Clapin. I know that in internet terms 13 minutes may seem long – but seriously, just watch it. I love the look of this short film which seems to be a mix of 2d, 3d, and practical elements, [...]

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ludicrous iso canon 1D Mark IV

Tweet Canon recently announced the 1D Mark IV a 16.1 Megapixel, manual exposure control and multiple frame rates 30p, 24p, 25p, 60p, 50p, 60p, 50p, and video can be captured at HD 1920 x 1080 resolution at frame rates of 24 (23.976), 25 or 30 (29.97) frames per second, for up to 4GB per clip. [...]

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