Press Release Sydney, 11 September 2015 Sony today announced the latest addition to its award winning series of compact, full-frame 7 cameras with the introduction of the 7S II. Offering ultra-high sensitivity and wide dynamic range across the entire ISO range and 5-axis image stabilisation for greater shooting control, the 7S II delivers stunning image …
Frame.io has now been around for a few months and already had over 30,000 users. They now have a desktop app that integrates into FCPX and makes it really easy to share the timeline or part of it with collaborators and team members. Frame.io is kind of a better hybrid of Dropbox and Vimeo. It …
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Sean Baker’s latest film, Tangerine, was shot on iPhones using the FiLMiC app and Moondog Labs 1.33x anamorphic lens adapters to give a wide screen but full 2k resolution film. The result is not only an amazing film but an impressive demonstration of just what you can do with an iPhone. The iPhones were mounted …
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The 2015 Saatchi and Saatchi showcase of short films by new directors is out and definitely worth a look. The YouTube channel with all the work is here. You can also read the Fast Company article about this years finalists here.
Robert Hardy over on No Film School (a great site) has a great series of articles on the cinematographer’s process: Part 1 – Breaking down the script There’s also a great recent article and a video by Jim Denault on this topic Part 2 – Defining your camera strategy
Dan McComb over on his blog has published a good series of three articles on data wrangling in FCPX. His focus is documentary film making: Part 1 – Securing your footage (pretty short article) Part 2 – Choosing storage Part 3 – Organising for the edit (pretty long article)
Leonardo Dalessandri’s amazing Watchtower of Turkey is visually stunning. Edited in FCPX it has been a personal inspiration for me on what you can achieve. Watchtower of Turkey from Leonardo Dalessandri on Vimeo. There’s a great article on it on FCP.CO
Our current focus is on improving our skills in colour grading. To this end I thought I would share some links I’m finding useful: General article on colour grading Learn Color Grading .com FxFactory plugin Color Finale plugin for FCPX
Focus is a pretty damn good film and is also the first studio production edited in FCPX. As an FCPX user, I’ve been keen to read how this was done and thought you might be too. So here are some links: FCP.CO article Apple’s article FX Factory with some great videos Creative Planet
Recently we’ve been looking at production tools to make post-production in FCPX easier. One system that looks worthy of further investigation is Lumberjack. Lumberjack is an app system that makes it easy to keyword while shooting that then helps to organise your footage in FCPX ready for editing. Lumberjack seems most suited to documentary film …
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