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Pro, Prosumer, Consumer? Over the past 15 years or so in the field of digital video the separation between professional cameras and editing software and their consumer level equivalents has become somewhat blurred.These days even with the added category of "prosumer" those differences are becoming less and less.There remains however one key factor that separates all of … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Transitions, Trippy Effects and Syncing

Welcome to this week's Friday Roundup! So by way of explanation what you would normally expect to see as the lead image in the Roundup would generally be an image doctored by me to make a lame joke about video in some way. Unfortunately this week I have manflu and as all men out there know, I am not long for this world, so sad really. Anyway the best I could do was a image … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup- Drone Shots, Gimbals and Polarizers

Super Camera Basics for Video: Shutter Speed, Aperture, & ISOOne of the key steps you can take if you are looking to up your video game and lift it out of the "home movies" level is to start shooting manually.Most people tend to remain locked into the auto settings of their cams which includes auto-focus and everything else.In many cases that's actually just … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Camera Basics, 4K Tips and Drone Shots

MAGIX Movie Edit Pro Updates About two years ago German Software manufacturer Magix decided to abandon the yearly update cycle on some of their products. What that meant was that their consumer level video editing software, Movie Edit Pro and their pro offering, Video Pro X stopped having version updates denoted by a number. They began a different model based on constant … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Magix Updates, Free Emojis and Content Management

Pinnacle Studio Updates to Version 22 Well I guess the top news story for this week in the world of video editing software would have to be the release of Pinnacle Studio 22. With this latest release of Pinnacle Studio Corel have further enhanced what has become under their ownership quite literally a video editing and post production beast! If you are unfamiliar with … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – A Pinnacle Studio Update and Much More Stuff!