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4K Video Getting Closer Over the past few years or so the idea of 4K video has been floating around and of course at a pro level is now a reality and quite common. I have mentioned it a few times in a couple of posts not because I thought it was particularly relevant to the home user but because it would inevitably make it's way down to us lesser beings! I didn't want to look … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Another 4K Pocket Cam and Goodbye to Annotations

What's a Foley Anyway? I think just about every person who makes their own videos at some point gets to a level of production where they feel they are beginning to make progress. Then they take a look at something done in a professional setting and maybe feel that progress hasn't been so good! When you compare your own productions against the productions of those that are at … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Foley Explained, Title Sequences and White Balance

LUTs Explained With Cats! If you happen to be the proud owner of a version of CyberLink PowerDirector that has the color grading module, Color Director attached then you may find this to be of interest. One of the more advanced features of this software is that it allows you to use LUTs. LUT stands for Look Up Table and is a table of preset settings to handle color in a … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Cats and LUTs, Green Screen Tips and White Backgrounds

And the Oscar Goes to... CITIZENFOUR is a documentary that was recently awarded the Oscar for Best Documentary. Similarly in 2013 the same award was given to another documentary called Searching for Sugar Man. Why "similarly? Well, Sugar Man was shot almost entirely on Super 8 film and an iPhone whilst CITIZENFOUR was shot on a high end consumer level camcorder, the FS100. Now … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – It Ain’t the Meat It’s the Motion and Other Editing News

Vintage Movie Look Recently I published my review of Camtasia 8 from Techsmith which has long been my "go to" program for screen recording and editing those recordings into shape. One of the features of Camtasia that I didn't really go into in the review was the aspect of support for the program. With the complexity these days of modern editing software it is important to … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Old Time Movies, Video Formats and Framing Tips