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Very interesting Post from Stu about Clipping. A lot of backgroundinformation about why exposing to the right side ist the right choice. and why Clipping is bad.
Wouldn’t sign that thesis fully, but I think you should know what you’ll do when overexposing/clipping the whites. I dit it in various shots in my feature and did [...]

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So you bought Final Cut Studio, did youf Film with it and don’t even think about learning DVD Studio Pro to make your DVD? Wanna ust iDVD?
It’s not the Thing that I would do. But I did it also that way last time…
The Guys at GeniusDV wrote a good Tutorial about using FinalCut to [...]

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Dirk from Photoshop-weblog.de showed us this great site on his Blog.
It’s a Site that contains 40 Photography Tutorials. From the basic understanding of digital Imagery to advanced techniques. The best thing, and that makes it postable here, is the fact that the tutorials also deal with Lenses, Lens Filters, Depth of Field and stuff [...]

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You’ve seen the Faketrailer I’ve put online two days ago? If not this is the Time to check it out.
You’re back? Fine. This here is the whole grading session. After I’d cut the whole thing (well, it’s just a minute or so) i copied the whole cut from Premiere to AfterFX. Then I started recording [...]

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This is another short Test for my 35mm Adapter. It’s colorgraded and slightly touched in Post. More about it later, with a nice “Behind-the-colorgrading” Feature.
You’ll get the Trailer, the untouched one and a comparison between both.

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Eric Escobar writes about a Greenscreenproduction he did for Sony. He filmed the Talent in a greenscreen stage. Everything else was a rendered 3d-Enviroment. As the Cam should be constantly moving they put markers on the green to match it later in post. There are some Problems they ran into and their solutions to it. [...]

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Found by the Filmlinker. Video says it all. Cool technique, worth a try.

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Studiodaily has a good Article about the Effectswork on Iron Man. It shows the Problems working with four different Productionhouses and how they got over it. It also touches the Innovations that they made like the advanced Shaders they invented for it, which are updated Versions of the ones made for Transformers. For your Entertainment [...]

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Richard Harrington has a really cool Podcast about Photoshop for Video at Photoshopforvideo.com. There you’ll find a lot of usefull stuff presented in HD as a iTunes and RSS compatible Feed. Lot of stuff to work yourself throught, but worth the spent time.
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This is a Part of a Panel Session about how to produce Production Value without spending a lot of money. Part of the Panel is Stu Maschwitz, Author of the DV Rebels Guide (which will be reviewed here soon) who is giving small Tips that mean a lot for cheap filmmaking.

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