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You Won’t Believe How Easy it is to use Blackmagic Raw Files in Adobe CC 2015

Filmmaker and VFX artist D.L. Watson walks us through the process of working with Blackmagic Raw files in the latest release of Adobe Creative...

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Stages of Editing

Chris Ace Gates

Video editing is a process. It is a combination of various technical functions, sequenced together to achieve an aesthetic goal.

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Focus on Field Monitors

Susan Schmierer

Video and film production is a craft of many skills. We are required to create stories, evoke emotions and capture details through picture and...

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Nodes vs. Layers

Susan Schmierer

In most editing software, you use tracks. Tracks are different from layers in that tracks can hold numerous elements such as multiple video clips,...

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Introduction to Professional Editing Software

I remember the day I bought my first piece of editing software. I had just shot video for a high school Spanish project with...

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RAW Workflow

The biggest advantage to shooting raw is that the color of the images produced is unaltered so the highest image quality possible from the...

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Why Use An I/O Device?

Often considered the “black box” of video production, a video I/O (input/output) device can come across as a mysterious piece of equipment. Many producers...

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LTO Digital Tape Storage Explained

There’s no arguing against the fact that digital technologies have changed the landscape of shooting video. The absence of tape has led to being...

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How to Keep Your Timeline Organized for a More Efficient Edit

The timeline of any video editing program is the foundation of an edit. It’s the place where the video editor digs their hands in...

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Emotional Justification of Shot Choices

Narrative filmmaking is one of the greatest and most powerful forms of art ever invented, and it's still relatively new. And while it grew...