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Knowing Your Scopes: When to Trust Your Eye and the Most Useful Scopes of All
Depending on the acquisition system, waveform monitors and vectorscopes can guide quality control of your imagery from shooting all the way down the pipeline to grading, mastering, and compression for...
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How to Get Your Canon 5D Mark III RAW Footage Looking Like Arri Alexa
Suffice it to say some lucky, happy campers here at NFS have recently (finally) gotten their hands on a refurbished Canon 5D Mark III. Substances will surely flow in the not-too-distant future — and by...
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Compare 15 Digital Workflow Programs: Is Adobe Premiere the Best Bang for...
Your on-set digital workflow can vary wildly depending on your camera, budget, and schedule with each variable uniquely affecting the others. But, is there a flexible, multi-purpose software package...
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Here's How You Can Give Your Film the Summer Blockbuster Look
If you’ve seen a big tentpole movie release in the last 5 years, there’s a good chance the color grading has skewed heavily towards teal and orange. Countless movies have used this grading scheme for...
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Quick VFX Tutorial on Color Grading: Using Masks to Adjust Color Separately
Color correction can be a frustrating ordeal when you have to sacrifice over or under-exposing one section of your shot in order to make the rest look good. But, in this relatively simple color grading...
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Blackmagic Releases New DaVinci Resolve 10 & Resolve 10 Lite Color Grading Suite
Blackmagic announced DaVinci Resolve 10 at NAB 2013 just a year after introducing DaVinci Resolve 9, which has become one of the more popular color grading suites out there (with Resolve Lite being the...
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DaVinci Resolve 10 'Magically' Fixes Fringing in Magic Lantern RAW Video
Not too long ago, I posted about my post process for Magic Lantern RAW video, which relies heavily on Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve. This is in contrast to some Ginger HDR processes that allow...
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AbelCine Breaks Down Arri Alexa XT: Codex Virtual Media & Live Grading Metadata
There has been some significant news on the Arri front over the past few months — namely, that the growing Alexa family is forking out ‘budget’ HD-specific and Doc-friendly body implementations. All...
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Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 10 Final Release Now Available, Free Version...
Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 10 finally entered public Beta back in September, and many of you have already begun using it for new projects. You can take version 9 projects into 10, but not the other...
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'Ender's Game' Post Production Workflow Is at Least as Epic as the Movie
File-based acquisition affords filmmakers endless flexibility all the way through post production. Given the many possible workflows, it becomes important to tightly manage everything for efficiency,...
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Everything You Need to Know to Get Started with Adobe SpeedGrade
Last month, Adobe released a major update for their creative video applications, which added, among other new features, the long-requested ability for a direct link between Premiere Pro and SpeedGrade....
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From Import to Output: An In-Depth Guide to the Adobe Speedgrade CC Workflow
Color grading is one of those practices where an in-depth knowledge of your software is absolutely essential to get the job done right. While DaVinci Resolve is quickly becoming the gold standard for...
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Uncover the Digital 'Holy Grail': How to 'Get a Film Look Without Shooting Film'
With modern digital cinema cameras, it is often preferable to achieve a look that is more “cinematic” than “digital.” No one factor creates a filmic feel, but the precedent is simple enough — film...
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Color Correction Tutorial: Using DaVinci Resolve to Make Your Documentary...
In the process of narrative filmmaking, a talented cinematographer can achieve the desired aesthetic through closely controlling the characteristics of light, color, and composition. In these cases,...
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Make Your Footage Shine with These Free Cinematic Looks for Adobe SpeedGrade...
Of the countless post-production blogs on the web, Oliver Peters’ blog Digital Films is one of the absolute best. Not only does Peters cover a vast array of digital post-production tools and softwares...
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ARRI Makes Creating AMIRA LUTs Faster & Easier with This New Color Tool
When ARRI released information about their ENG-style, “documentary” camera, AMIRA, there were several reasons for filmmakers to get excited, like its lower price point and the promise of ALEXA-level...
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What's New in Adobe SpeedGrade 2014? This Video Breaks It All Down
Last week, Adobe released the much-anticipated update to their Creative Cloud video applications. We’ve already taken a look at one of the most exciting new features inside of Premiere/After Effects,...
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New BMPCC Owners, Here's How to Get Snappy, Vibrant Color from Your Flat Footage
Chances are that, unless you live under a rock, you know that the already-reasonable price of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera dropped dramatically earlier this month. As such, I think that it is...
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This DaVinci Resolve Course, Now 75% Off, Will Get You Color Grading Like a...
There are many factors that go into making a film look cinematic, like lighting, blocking, and camera settings, but creating a good color grade is certainly somewhere near the top. If you’re completely...
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Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve 11 is Finally Out of Beta. Download the Release...
At NAB 2014, Blackmagic Design announced DaVinci Resolve 11, and it not only contained a handful of fantastic new color correction and organization features, but also upwards of 70 new editing features...
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