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Cinematic Lighting Techniques One of the current catchphrases that seems to be circling around at the moment is "cinematic." There has been a lot of talk about adjusting frame rates to shoot more "cinematic.," applying cinematic LUTs or color adjustments and on and on. Unfortunately this kind of discussion tends to go around and around without anyone actually realizing that … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Cinematic Lighting, Jumps Cuts and Camera Hacks

5 Tips For Filming at Night Given the fact that most people shooting video at the consumer level of the market are going to be doing so on the basis of auto settings in their devices, shooting at night immediately becomes a bit of a problem. There are a bunch of factors working against you in these situations such the size of the sensor in smartphones or consumer cameras, the … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Night Shooting, Audio and Split Toning

Matching Shots in Resolve 14 Camera Matching TutorialLate last year a few of the usual suspects in the world of consumer level video editing began introducing "shot match" modules into their respective editors.The driving force behind this was that more and more people were putting together projects in which they had access to footage from more than one camera.Given … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Color Matching Cameras, YouTube Updates and Gimbals

Prepare for Hyperlapse! Another post this week on taking your timelapse footage up a notch and turning it into hyperlapse! Ooh! Hyperslapse, it sounds so exciting! Anyway simply put, a hyperlapse is just a time lapse sequence but instead of keeping the camera in a fixed position for the entire shoot you move the camera incrementally over time. It's sort of like a time lapse … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Editing Work Flows, Hyperlapse and YouTube Tips

How To Get The Best B-ROLLOne of the great advantages we have in living in the digital age of video is that we don;t have to worry too much about the quantity of footage we take.Battery life is always improving and storage media is pretty cheap these days compared to the past.Previously we had to be a bit judicious about what footage we took and how much of it we … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Storytelling, B-roll and Cinematic Tips