The advantages of soft lights for are huge. - the advantage of Rifas is convenience: they set up in seconds - pop open like an umbrella - and you can carry 2 or 3 (with stands) under one arm.
We are not seeing the work of a cinematographer in full control of their craft, Mario Andretti doing his best with front-wheel drive and an automatic transmission
Many aspects of the new media aesthetic are derived from economic and technological circumstance…50 years ago those same principles were being advanced by the French new wave as the aesthetic imperatives of “auteur theory”.
If there were ever a search for the historical prototypes of modern videojournalism then surely Michael Apted’s 7-UP series would figure large. A brief description from MA of his epiphany with regard to video and objectivity: “…it occurred to me that maybe what I was doing was something quite different from what I thought I was doing…”
“Just hold down Cmd + Option + Shift and click the Tools menu. You should now see a new menu item called Internal Tools. This is a debug menu used by the developers of FCP, but it actually has some uses for us mere mortals as well” - kenstone.net
Most useful are features that allow you to customize screen display and monitor various aspects of system/drive performance.
I’ve owned Nikon SLRs for many years. Canon HDV is my camera of choice today but I still favor Nikon for stills, and like all Nikon gearheads I read kenrockwell.com.
Was Rockwell really serious when he wrote his much travelled “Why the camera doesn’t matter”?
- Yes, he was indeed, but he slid in several important caveats, that might just lead you to follow his example, rather than his advice, and stick with the fancicams.
It’s not about pixels - it’s about control.
Faced with the continued threat of rock stars using video camera lenses as ash-trays, the techs at Nikon and Canon have both hit on the same solution - have the DSLR handle the video for you. Today Canon announced the 21 MP 5D MKII following Nikon’s introduction last month of the D90, both capable of [...]
My smallest run-and-gun kit includes just 2 lights. A small on camera catch-light and a rifa 44 quick-action softbox. I have often found that I can get a more natural look by positioning the rifa on the same side of the camera as the main light source.
Outside the studio the traditional “key from one [...]
When recording audio using a wireless mic, there are 4 different places to overload the equipment. In the digital realm overload is an unforgivable sin, it renders the audio unusable and cannot be fixed. The cameras on board meter only warns you of overload at the last step in the chain. Turning down [...]
A list of all of the free filters for FCP - complete with descriptions - from Simon Kirby.
Pick of the bunch (although there are quite a few I’ve never used) is the FaceLight filter from Haiku.
Facelight is a keyframable filter used to brighten up a definable segment of the picture [...]
