For those who downloaded FCPX and need some help here are the best tutorials around. Watching the tutorials I can tell for sure that in a years time X will catch up its ancestor and become an industry work horse again. You can have a look here:
http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/
FINAL CUT PRO X
I was going to buy a video converter from the app store and accidentally saw the most expected editing software for Mac the legendary Final cut X.
For many years I was editing on avid but some people insisted to give FCP a go. I was very reluctant trying something new, I had crazy fears like my edit will go out of sync, the trimming mode is not as good as Avid's and I can name a hundred more.
The main reason that I finally sat down and learned how to use FCP is because I hated Avid's update policy, every time that was an update you had to pay for it, Apple's update policy was different and a lot cheaper.
Apple's new strategic plan to eliminate software piracy introduced the app store for Mac and reduced software prices in many occasions less than half price. For example the upcoming Lion OS costs less than €30 and Final cut X costs €239.99
I will definitely buy the new FC X and try it out. Looking forward importing directly from my 5D and play around.
I will be posting my first impressions very soon!
Technicolor cine style samples
By clicking on the videos below you can view samples using cinestyle patch
on your DSLR.
on your DSLR.
Baby Primes
Here we have a set of prime Lenses from kelvin Kamera, all re-housed photo ZM.2Zeiss lenses, with manual aperture, fitted with follow focus gears and wait to hear this...
2 sided scales for focus and iris.
The front diameter of the lenses is 95mm and the price is going to be 35-40%less thanCP.2 lenses. Let's see, a single CP.2 lens costs €3.600 minus 35% for a baby prime comes to € 2.340 still expensive but not unreachable. Looking forward testing them!
article source www.cinema5d.com
Cine style profile by Technicolor
Here is an interesting profile for Canon DSLR cameras when used on video mode. Cinestyle's profile expands the dynamic range of the image captured and allows the cinematographer expanding his grading options during color timing.
You can download cinestyle for free. The installation on the camera is really easy, just make sure that your running EOS Utility v2.6
Happy birthday HDSLR filmmaking !
It’s been almost 2 years that HDSLR short video clips appeared on Vimeo, most of them unedited with a piece of music running along, usually portraits, cityscapes, landscapes and some timelapses using digital photo cameras. As an avid emulsion lover till then the only words spoken by me was 1.66, 1.85, super 35mm super 16 etc. Industry people back then started shooting on the Legendary RED ONE but still the look of the image was still “videoish” yet expensive for indie filmmakers and students.
Along with the experimental HDSLR videos shot by students mostly, a DoP Guru suddenly appeared on blogs, forums and video related pages. One of his early HDLR works was shot on location at George Lucas ranch and everybody started commenting how beautifully the picture looked, some other interesting shallow depth of field videos came along and here you go Boom! The HDSLR dogma bloomed like spring flowers. Despite the fact that photo cameras never mend to be used vastly like video cameras some accessories was designed in no time to make photo cameras friendlier to camera operators and industry professionals.
DVD’s how to use a DSLR along with BTS materials and useful tips started spreading around and then the first truly detailed comparison test was shot by Zacuto, it was then I’ve decided to sell my film equipment and buy a DSLR camera body and a good set of prime lenses, monitor and accessories. Actually it took me several months of research, shooting lens tests, reading blogs and forums in order to choose the best products and lenses out there.
Since then many things changed, HDSLR became an industry standard, BBC started using it, many TV commercials was shot with it, House seasons last episode was in the list and a few short films rereleased to cinemas. Of course sites like Vimeo and Youtube helped young filmmakers to present their work and I’ll have to admit that there are very interesting pieces of work out there with excellent stories to tell, narrative or not, experimental or docs and 99% was shot with no – low budget.
Bottom line I do miss film and I’m looking forward shooting something on my little bolex or 35mm on commercials that I direct for a living, but seriously nowadays that budgets shrank due to recession buying a DSLR was a good choice.
Director’s notes on Toylife
Day 1. A plastic children's bicycle was left near a garbage bin for some one to pick up.
a) Best case scenario, some one will pick it up and pass it to a child poor or not, by the way the bicycle was in excellent working order and shape.
b) Worst case scenario, the bicycle will end up in the dumpster.
Day 2. An idea came into my mind. I slept over it.
Day 3. Next morning I shared my thoughts to a creative director that I usually work with and he came back with a concept. A copy was sent to me two hours later!
Day 4. I called up people that we usually work together, told them the concept. They loved it!
Day 5. The production was organized.
Day 5. Late afternoon, I've asked my wife for some money in order to start the preproduction... She said ok, spend them carefully.
Day 6. Went for location scouting!
Day 6. Late night, I started casting robots on eBay.
Day 7 & 8. Principal photography.
We spent almost a month for the motion design in cinema 4d and after effects. On principal photography we always had in mind to let the picture breath a little bit in order to give some space to the motion designerto work on.
The music score was created in five hours! WoW! and my wife’s mood got better because I DIDN'T wasted my money!
Vivian Maier new website
THIS WEBSITE WAS CREATED IN DEDICATION TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER VIVIAN MAIER, A STREET PHOTOGRAPHER FROM THE 1950S - 1990S
I was always FASCINATED by Maiers work, some times a single picture say's it all!
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