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Simplifying Our Lives
1. Simplify Your Life by Reducing your Possessions Modern culture is materialistic, bombarding us with the message that we can find happiness in possessions. In reality, possessions create clutter....
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Production & Post-Production Tools
Plural Eyes – is a plugin for both Final Cut and Sony Vegas that we use to sync up all of our clips automatically. Very cool and a huge time saver. Watch this video and see just how easy it is to...
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Three Dimensional Video Production
Bob’s Current Conclusions about 3 Dimensional Video Production In April 2010, Bob attended the Digital Cinema Summit at NAB which was almost exclusively about 3D in production. Bob has since viewed...
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Color Temperature and Gels
A Director of Photography’s challenge is to craft the quality and character of light in a scene. Since the majority of our projects are on-location, I am often working with a mixture of natural light...
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Most advice about job seeking is oriented around big companies. The notion of a standard resume, of mass mailings, of dealing with the HR department–even the idea of interviews–is all built around the...
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Data Rates for Digital Production: Understanding Bits, Bytes and Bottlenecks
This article was originally by Jay Holden. We think that it is a great explanation and that you would find it useful. Despite the fact that it’s 2012 and we’re more than a decade into the digital...
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The Power of Trade Show Booth Video
You see sufficient value to allocate time and money to exhibit. After all, your current and potential customers have made it a point to attend. A video playing on a screen in your booth helps attract...
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Eye Lines
When shooting interviews, it’s important to have the subject’s eye line on axis with the camera lens so that it doesn’t appear that the subject is looking over or under the camera. To accomplish this,...
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Camera Setups – Part 1
When discussing camera formats and setups while planning for a shoot, always ask about the final deliverable and how the client will use the footage – both now, and in the future. Is it for broadcast?...
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White Balancing on DSLR camera’s
White Balance is nothing more than an adjustment to get the color you want. You set it to look good on the camera’s LCD and that’s it until the light changes. Photos can look too orange, blue or green...
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