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Friday 19 Oct 2018 Five ways that analogue photography can make you a much better DP
If you want to improve your eye for composition and lighting, there is no better way than to give up your digital gadgets and to go back to analogue photography. Read more...

Friday 19 Oct 2018 How to get hold of the perfect music score, legally
Music copyright can be a legal nightmare, even for the simplest of videos. John McCabe shines a guiding light on the best ways to get a quality musical score, legally, even if you don't have a lot to spend.
Thursday 18 Oct 2018 Amazing video showing the secrets of capturing a falcon in flight
How do you capture a peregrine falcon in flight from the point of view of its prey? The answer is to tie a lure to some very clever technology.
Thursday 18 Oct 2018 Lightworks 14.5 adds 70 new features
With headline tweaks including improved framerate and format support, the latest point release of Lightworks adds a lot to Editshare’s well-regarded NLE.
Thursday 18 Oct 2018 Traditional techniques make First Man an immersive and authentic cinematic experience
The recent release of First Man, a film depicting the life of Neil Armstrong during the time of the Apollo missions, has further highlighted the creative use of traditional film as well as filmmaking techniques. Neil Oseman breaks the film down and takes a closer look at how Damien Chazelle realised his vision using some of the most traditional methods in filmmaking, with no CGI in sight.
Wednesday 17 Oct 2018 Teradek gives new graphics power to live streamers
Teradek has just teamed up with Singular to bring graphical overlay power to live streams using its products.

Monday 8 Oct 2018 Our comprehensive BMPCC4K review continues: Setup, audio and HFR
The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K has a lot of detail and nuance to it. In the last part we covered its general features and how its dual gain (ISO) circuits allow you to have flexibility and control over exposure despite the lack of an ND wheel. In this part we want to focus in on some of its more detailed functionality.

Thursday 18 Oct 2018 Lightworks 14.5 adds 70 new features
With headline tweaks including improved framerate and format support, the latest point release of Lightworks adds a lot to Editshare’s well-regarded NLE.

Wednesday 10 Oct 2018 Sim’s Media Shuttle portal improves workflow and client services during production of Syfy’s Krypton [sponsored]
Where can we look to get a sense of the future of workflow production for scripted episodic programming? The designs and projects of Jesse Korosi, Director of Workflow Services at SIM Digital International, and his team of producers, supervisors, technicians and developers have become trusted models for many in the industry.

Friday 19 Oct 2018 Five ways that analogue photography can make you a much better DP
If you want to improve your eye for composition and lighting, there is no better way than to give up your digital gadgets and to go back to analogue photography.

Wednesday 17 Oct 2018 We are getting closer to being able to build a big, bad ARM based workstation, assuming we could ever get software for it!
Ampere Computing's recently announced eMAG CPU gives us an enticing thought that maybe, just maybe we might be getting close to a time when we could self build an ARM based workstation. Whether we could actually run any known OS on it is quite another question however...

Friday 5 Oct 2018 Does the average viewer really care about picture quality? [opinion]
Smart TVs would appear to have a lot to answer for. For anyone who has had to go into the settings of their friends television set to turn off the dreaded 'motion interpolation', Chris Foreman asks the question, do viewers really care about picture quality any more? ...