June 17, 2018

5 Creative Things You Can Do with the Crop Tool in Premiere Pro

The crop tool in Premiere Pro has a lot more to offer than you might think.

If you have any experience working in Adobe Premiere Pro, or any NLE for that matter, the crop tool is probably something that you’re at least somewhat familiar with. You might traditionally use it to zoom in on your footage a bit or even change the aspect ratio of your frame, but there’s actually a lot of really cool things you can do with this effect that you might’ve never heard about before.

In this video, Jordy Vandeput of Cinecom goes over five creative ways you can use the crop tool to make your edits more creative and dynamic, from animating text to creating sleek transitions. Check it out below:

While Vandeput certainly shows you how to pull off a handful of great effects, there is a myriad of interesting things you can do with the crop tool inside of Premiere Pro. His tutorial will not only provide you with a few new tricks that you can bust out the next time you work on a project but it will also, hopefully, get your creative juices flowing so you can come up with your own ideas on how to use the crop tool in more creative ways.

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Source: NoFilmSchool

June 17, 2018

The Thought Process Behind Lighting an Exterior Shot at Night

Gearing up for an outdoor nighttime shoot? Keep these lighting techniques in mind.

Night exteriors pose unique lighting challenges to cinematographers. Not only do they have to paint light on the blank canvas that is darkness but they also have to mimic the look and feel of the moon, a light source that is often not powerful enough to produce a decent exposure. If you’re unsure of how to approach a nighttime shoot, you should check out this video from Aputure. In it, Ted Sim talks with DP Julia Swain as she details her lighting process and techniques, from how to recreate moonlight to taking advantage of practicals.

Because there aren’t really any hard and fast rules about lighting, not all DPs are going to light a scene in the same way. However, Swain’s three different lighting setups can give you a great primer on exterior night shots, as well as a great place to start your education on how to light them. She demos a “bare moonlight” setup, moonlight with practicals, and finally, just practicals, which introduces you to some of the most common and important concepts in lighting night exteriors.

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Source: NoFilmSchool

June 16, 2018

Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Worry about Resolution According to DP Geoff Boyle

Who reigns supreme in the battle between picture and pixels?

It’s difficult to define what makes an image “good”. Is it the composition? The lighting? The use of color and texture and depth? The answer is yes to all of that—and so much more, not the least of which, as some would argue, resolution. As the industry standard continues to get higher and higher, with 4K making way for 8K and beyond, many filmmakers have no doubt wondered about the correlation between high-quality images and resolution, including DP Geoff Boyle, who in this interview with Cooke Optics TV, expressed his stance on the debate in one of the more colorful ways we’ve seen.

“Don’t worry about the color space, don’t worry about the resolution, just worry about the images.”

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Source: NoFilmSchool

June 15, 2018

HoloLens 2 could pack a Qualcomm chip for ‘extended reality’

The next version of Microsoft’s HoloLens headset for augmented reality will supposedly feature Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon XR1. The rumor arrives by way of an anonymous source who claims the headset will appear in January 2019.

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Source: Digital Trends VR

June 15, 2018

‘The Yellow Birds’: DP Daniel Landin on Creating Contrasting Visuals for Iraqi Desert and Virginia Mountains

‘The Yellow Birds’ takes an honest but also visually striking look at the Iraq War and its aftermath.

While many films that could be called “war films” depend on loudness—in imagery, dialogue, and action—to get their ideas across, The Yellow Birds is not one of those films. Based on Kevin Powers’ novel of the same name, Alexandre Moors’ debut feature grapples with the Iraq war, PTSD, romantic attraction, dishonesty, and fragile masculinity, among other subjects, and yet it maintains an even keel throughout, moving us through without ever seeming too frantic, even when its characters are in the midst of battle.

Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich, Toni Colette, Jennifer Aniston and many others give mature performances here, as individuals wrestling with vast problems. The story hinges on the disappearance of an earnest young soldier, Murph (Sheridan) and his close comrade’s (Ehrenreich) knowledge of that disappearance, as well as the fallout with the soldiers’ respective families. Despite its intricate storyline, one gets the sense that the loss here is meant to be more existential.

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Source: NoFilmSchool

June 15, 2018

We Can’t All Be David Lynch, But At Least Now We Can Wear His Art

Yes, David Lynch is selling t-shirts now.

David Lynch has inspired more articles on this site than almost any other filmmaker. His uncompromising vision and twisted cinematic tales have had us breaking down his aesthetic choices, eagerly anticipating the return of Twin Peaks, and, of course, obsessively theorizing about Mullholland Drive. But it wasn’t until last year’s documentary David Lynch: The Art Life that we really started to get to know Lynch as a person, and understand where those dark fantasies emerged from.

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Source: NoFilmSchool

June 14, 2018

VR experience re-creates the Anne Frank House as it looked during WWII

The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam is launching a virtual reality tour of the Anne Frank House’s Secret Annex, where the famous diarist and her family hid from the Nazis during World War II.

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Source: Digital Trends VR