August 21, 2018

Insta360 Pro 2 shoots stabilized 8K VR video that you can watch on 4K headsets

The new Insta360 Pro 2 is the first pro-grade 360 camera to integrate stabilization — but it also packs in a host of other features, including algorithms that allow the 8K videos to be viewed from 4K headsets and smartphones.

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August 19, 2018

This Super Simple Editing Hack Will Fix Your Flicker Quick

Nope, it’s not magic, just really clever editing.

You know when your video footage has that really nasty flickering in it? Yeah, that’s just the worst thing ever. “Where’s the hot shot that turned a strobe light on during the shoot,” you wonder, but hey, I promise it wasn’t the hot shots’ fault. It’s banding, or flickering, which happens when the frequency of a light source doesn’t match up nicely with the frame rate of your camera. If you’re like, “Yeah, cool information…wish I knew that before I shot all my footage,” don’t throw your work out just yet. Filmmaker Peter McKinnon has a ridiculously quick and easy hack that may fix your flicker problem completely. Check out his tutorial below:

Earlier this year, we posted a similar “flicker fix” technique from Blue Mantle Films that had a couple of extra steps and left a bit of a blurry double-exposure look to the footage. McKinnon’s technique, which you might’ve previously seen on a Philip Bloom tutorial several years ago, simplifies the process slightly by requiring just two video layers and doesn’t seem to produce much visible blur.

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August 18, 2018

Want to Edit a Blockbuster? Stay Organized with This Free Premiere Pro Timeline Template

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August 17, 2018

‘Juliet, Naked’: How Adapting a Famous Novel was Like Solving a Puzzle for Its Screenwriter

For screenwriter Evgenia Peretz, one of the most challenging things about adapting Nick Hornby’s ‘Juliet, Naked’ was working on character backstories.

To adapt Nick Hornby’s novel, Juliet, Naked, for the screen, director Jesse Peretz and screenwriter Evgenia Peretz took a very dense, complex narrative and transformed it into a genial and entertaining film.

The performances are evenly skilled: Rose Byrne is relaxed as Annie, a director of a small museum in a British seaside town. Her characters lives with Duncan, a somewhat less relaxed academic (played with believable angst by Chris O’Dowd), whose greatest love is the website he has built around Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke), a rocker who has lived out of the limelight for nearly two decades. When Duncan receives an unreleased album by Crowe in the mail, Annie listens to it after accidentally opening the package.

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August 17, 2018

VR experience shows caregivers what it’s like to live with Alzheimer’s disease

Los Angeles-based VR startup Embodied Labs has developed a virtual experience that puts users in the shoes of a person with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia in the U.S.

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August 17, 2018

Watch: How a Filmmaker Edited a Family’s Home Movies to Craft a Fictional Narrative

A mockumentary culled from found footage? A doc-com? A hybrid? Dean Fleischer-Camp’s ‘Fraud’ often defies description.

If a film’s visuals provide ideas, the edit in which they’re strung together provides the meaning. Perhaps no greater example of this exists than in Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Fraud, a found-footage documentary that’s very description should come bookended by quotation marks.

Surveying over 100 hours of footage derived from a nuclear family’s personal Youtube channel, Fleischer-Camp and his editor pick-and-chose isolated moments from the family’s home movies, creating a devious, dark narrative that implicated the parents as criminals desiring insurance money. Of course, none of this was true; Fleischer-Camp structured the footage in such a way that only made it appear as such.

As the film debuts on digital platforms today, we’re excited to host an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at how the cinematic magic trick of illusion was pulled off.

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August 17, 2018

Learn How to Build a DIY Ring Light like Roger Deakins

One of Roger Deakins’ secret cinematographic weapons is a ring light that you can actually build yourself.

Becoming a world-class cinematographer like Oscar winner Roger Deakins doesn’t happen overnight. (Obviously.) It not only takes decades of experience and experimentation but also a lifelong love of and openness to learning new things about your craft. Thankfully, Deakins is not shy about sharing his wealth of knowledge, and one thing he often talks about when describing his gear is a lighting tool that can really help you up your game. In this video, Todd Blankenship and Logan Baker of Shutterstock show you how to build one. Behold, the Roger Deakins ring light.

Ring lights are great when you want to create a nice, soft light to a scene, and the size of this thing will ensure that it not only covers plenty of area but that the light is also and soft as possible. (The bigger the ring, the softer the light.) This build will fit roughly 25 tungsten bulbs, so, yeah, it’ll be quite large.

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