We are creatures of habit. It’s our habits that allow us to develop routines which increase our efficiency and enable us to be more productive.
Many work hours can be lost to footage in formats that render slowly or need to be transcoded but fear not! Once you unlock the knowledge of codecs and containers, you’ll be able to continue your quest for great video.Why Formats MatterThere’s a multitude of reasons a video format...
Filmmaker and VFX artist D.L. Watson walks us through the process of working with Blackmagic Raw files in the latest release of Adobe Creative Cloud 2015. This should be a major sigh of relief for Blackmagic shooters who find round-tripping with Resolve to be a cumbersome process.
Video editing is a process. It is a combination of various technical functions, sequenced together to achieve an aesthetic goal.
Video and film production is a craft of many skills. We are required to create stories, evoke emotions and capture details through picture and sound. To do so well, we need to shape light, compose images, record audio, scout locations, and select and prepare talent amongst dozens of tasks...
In most editing software, you use tracks. Tracks are different from layers in that tracks can hold numerous elements such as multiple video clips, and each video clip can have multiple effects layers attached to it. In some editing software, you can even attach effects layers to the tracks.LayersA...
I remember the day I bought my first piece of editing software. I had just shot video for a high school Spanish project with some friends and immediately ran to the electronics store to pick up a copy of Pinnacle Studio. I rushed home to begin cutting my cinematic...
The biggest advantage to shooting raw is that the color of the images produced is unaltered so the highest image quality possible from the camera is maintained. The downside of working with raw files is that they take up more storage space than processed/compressed video. Additionally, the post production...
Often considered the “black box” of video production, a video I/O (input/output) device can come across as a mysterious piece of equipment. Many producers and independent video creators who don’t use an I/O device wonder what it does. The big questions are: What’s it for? Why do I need...
There’s no arguing against the fact that digital technologies have changed the landscape of shooting video. The absence of tape has led to being able to manipulate the video directly through computer software means. But the changing of the guard from analogue to digital has not changed the need...
