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Here’s a great new video for achieving professional lighting on a budget. Veteran Hollywood cinematographer Jerry Day leads this intensive workshop. Packed with tips gleaned from years on the job, Lighting Like A Pro is broken into 3 sections including interview lighting, general cinematography and lighting for chroma keying. For more information, please visit this link.

The folks over at Zacuto just posted this awesome look at a cross-section of DSLR cameras vs. film cameras. Watch now:

THE GREAT CAMERA SHOOTOUT 2010 CAST: Jens Bogehegn (Web Series Executive Producer), Robert Primes ASC (Director of Photography), Philip Bloom (DP – Color Profiles), Gary Adcock (Digerati), Ryan Emerson (Colorist) and Steve Weiss (Web Series Director). SPECIAL APPEARANCES BY: Shane Hurlbut, ASC, Stephen Goldblatt ASC, BSC Stephen Lighthill, ASC, Rick McCallum, Stu Maschwitz, David Wexler, Kevin Shahinian, David Robin, The Bui Brothers and more.

For more details visit:

http://www.zacuto.com/shootout

Check this out from Lifehacker "A few days ago, I found out that the Ivar “wooden ladder” was perfect to use it as rails for my cinema dolly! I can now make some nice sequence shots with this $24 accessory from Ikea." More details here: http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2010/01/ivar-loves-dolly.html

Check out this amazing course in blocking and staging for camera. Used by a huge variety of film schools and working professionals this is as close as you’ll get to a film school in a box. You’ll learn how to set up camera angles and shots for maximum visual impact and a whole lot more. Visit this link for The Master Course in High-End Blocking and Staging.

I love the KBCovers line and now they have a custom keyboard that looks great and allows you to work faster and more efficiently with a KB Keyboard for Final Cut Pro.

Designed in conjunction with Certified Final Cut Trainers and Experts, KB Keyboards include over 90 of the most important and commonly used keyboard shortcuts for Final Cut Pro. KB Keyboards are a must for experts and beginners alike, this compact-size, Apple® ultra-thin usb aluminum compact keyboard is a great way improve your knowledge and productivity with Final Cut Pro.

KB Keyboards utilize both icons and colors to make using keyboard shortcuts easier to find and use. Master Final Cut Pro by using a keyboard from KB Keyboards. Your shortcut to genius. So head on over to this page and check it out:

http://www.callboxlive.com/products/compact-kb-keyboard-for-final-cut-pro

Also new-

Panasonic HMC150 Book and CD from Barry Green!

This book and CD package presents a comprehensive examination of the camera and all its features, settings, and modes, the tapeless workflow, working with avchd footage, and tutorials on some of the most common situations users find themselves facing. The book de-mystifies what all the features of the camera actually do, as well as explaining when and why you’d want to use each setting for the best results. An extensive section of tutorials and essays teach a range of subjects from the simple to the advanced, including explanations on how to get the shallow depth-of-field look, how to control strobing and shoot 24P (or 25P) for the best results, and how to use the waveform monitor and vectorscope. The book is jam-packed with photos and screenshots throughout its 216 full-color, high-quality glossy pages.

http://www.callboxlive.com/products/panasonic-hmc150-book-and-cd

Here are some ideas for moviemaker iPhone Applications. More to come soon:

IMDB [Free] A highly useful mobile version of the defacto directory of movie making. You can also check out upcoming showtimes and trailers. And did I mention it’s free?

iSlate [$2.99] is not a total substitute for a timecode synced smart slate, but it’s better than nothing. And it’s incredibly cute with actual useful features like built-in shot logging. Perfect for a run and gun DSLR shoot that wants a little more organization while keeping everything simple and pocketable.

ScriptWrite [$4.99] allows you to create scripts right on your iPhone. Now I wouldn’t recommended creating a screenplay from start to finish this way, it can be a nice way to edit a script or jot down a scene idea whenever inspiration strikes.

Reel Director [$7.99] is a full blown video editor for your iPhone 3GS. Now obviously this requires you to shoot videos with your 3GS and limits your quality but for just goofing around or a quick sketch out of an idea with coverage, this is groundbreaking stuff.

Storyboard Composer [$19.99] Formerly known as Hitchcock, this is a quick storyboard sketch tool for visualizing shots using your iPhone.

This is an interesting use of the iPhone to act as a sort of remote trigger and monitor for your DSLR. It’s not quite as useful for video as it is for still but as more folks are mixing it up between stills and video at once in the studio, it could come in handy. Besides, let’s face it, who doesn’t like using their iPhone in new and cool ways. Check out DSLR Camera Remote for more info. $19.99 is a bit steep for an iPhone app, so there’s also a LITE version. 

 

 

As a follow up to Philip Bloom’s excellent Canon EOS 5D Mark II training video, we now have his take on the 7D. This is a great camera that gives you access to all of Canon’s sweet 35mm DSLR lenses along with all of the frame rates you could want for shooting movies like 1080/24p, 720/60p and 50p and so on. Check it out for immediate download here:

http://www.callboxlive.com/products/philip-bloom-canon-7d

Philip Bloom really knows his stuff with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II. And he’s gone the extra mile to create his own training course on DVD folding in all of his experience and know-how. I think this is such an important and useful course I cut a deal with Philip to offer it on my site as well. I’m even offering any one of our own Call Box courses free with Philip’s DVD to sweeten the deal. Check it out here:

hhttp://www.callboxlive.com/products/philip-bloom-canon-5d

-Noah

One of the hottest trends in production today is DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras that shoot high-definition video. These cameras use large image sensors and proven still camera lenses to achieve shallow depth of field. If you can’t afford a RED camera or even one of the higher end prosumer high-definition cameras, these are an amazing value. Here’s a quick survey of some of the contenders.

Canon

EOS 5D Mark II
Canon’s first big broadside into the DSLR cinemtography market. 21 megapixels and all those Canon lenses make for amazing stills. One sore spot, no 24p.

EOS 7D
Canon ups the ante by finally delivering a true 24p mode, though the sensor shrinks a little to a still very respectable 18 megapixels.

Nikon

D90
Nikon’s first DSLR with a decent video mode. Has 24p but unfortunately tops out at 720p, with some fairly pronounced CMOS skew as well.

D300S
Nikon takes one of their most popular DSLR’s and adds video. At 12.3 megapixels, Canon holds the resolution advantage.

Panasonic

GH1
12.1 megapixels and 1080/24p using AVCHD compression and the 4/3 lens system. This camera merits a serious look for DSLR cinematography.

DMC-GF1
As with their point and shoot digital cameras with video modes, the GF1 tops out at 720p. It makes up for this by being much more compact than the Nikon or Canon cams through the use of the micro 4/3 interchangeable lens system.

That’s some of the playing field as of today. Let the discussion begin.

My book on the RED camera is now available for pre-order. We just finished it up! 

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A "significant" upgrade to Final Cut Studio was announced by Apple Thursday, with more than 100 new features and new versions of Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color and Compressor.
 
And at $999, the new Final Cut Studio costs $300 less than it did before. Existing users can upgrade for $299.
 
"With 1.4 million users and 50 percent of the market, Final Cut Pro is the number one professional video editing application," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "The new Final Cut Studio includes more than 100 new features and dramatically expands Apple's ProRes family of codecs so editors can work in the studio with the highest quality video or on location at low bandwidths."
 
Apple also debuted the new Final Cut Server 1.5, which is the asset management and automation tool for Final Cut Studio. It offers offline editing with ProRes Proxy, production hierarchies to organize media, and support for still sequences to easily view and manage image sequences for graphics and effects workflows. The new Final Cut Server also includes unlimited client licenses. It is available for $999 or as a $299 upgrade for existing users.
 
In revealing the new Final Cut Studio Thursday, Apple announced the following new features for each of the suite's included applications:
 
Final Cut Pro 7
  • Expands Apple's ProRes codec family to support virtually any workflow. ProRes Proxy allows offline and mobile editing at low bandwidth; ProRes LT allows general purpose editing; and ProRes 4444 is for editing and visual effects at the highest quality possible.
  • Easy Export allows users to continue working on projects while encoding is done in the background and the sequence is exported to YouTube, MobileMe, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, DVD or Blu-ray.
  • iChat Theater support allows real time collaboration by sharing Final Cut® timelines or individual source clips with iChat users anywhere in the world, even if they don't have a copy of Final Cut Pro.
  • New speed tools to change clip speed with ease.
  • Alpha transitions to create dramatic effects using moving mattes.
  • Native AVC-Intra support for the latest high quality Panasonic cameras.
 
For more info, visit:
 
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/07/23/final_cut_upgrades_boast_more_than_100_new_features.html
 
and
 
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/

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