Today’s Tuesday Tip is a little gem that we discovered while getting familiarized with the workflow of our Blackmagic Cinema Camera. In the past we have conducted speed tests on a variety of card readers with a 3.0 USB interface for our new MacBook Pro Retina Laptops. Our attempt to see which reader had the [...]
Maxwell from Flint Michigan wrote in and requested a Tuesday Tip on options for filters for the F&V R-300 LED Ring Light. This trick can work for other LED lights as well. We’re simply using the Rosco Color Effects Kit as our filter system for this Ring Light. Since the filters that come with the [...]
A crop factor will effect the field of view of your lens. In the video below I show an example of the difference in distance from the subject to the camera using the Rokinon 35mm T1.5 Cine Lens for Canon VDLSR on 3 cameras with different sized sensors. For the Full Frame camera I’m using [...]
Traditionally you would gel the lights and this works, however gels also cut the light output of your lights. One real benefit of doing this trick is that by using your white balance shift in-camera, you won’t cut any light output. This is under the assumption that you are using one certain type of light [...]
Who doesn’t love FREE? Today’s Tuesday Tip is all about creating light leaks in your camera for free. I simply detached the lens from the camera body and used an iPhone’s Flash Light App to shine a light in-between the camera’s sensor and the lens itself to create light leaks. We set our camera up [...]
Despite what the name implies, hot pixels are anything but attractive. Sometimes dubbed as dead, stuck or stray pixels, these are often times detected when a dark image has been captured or while looking at a night sky time lapse. A hot pixel show up as red or white dots and are best seen against [...]
Today’s Tuesday Tip covers solutions, literally. We show you how to solve the common problem of a DSLR LCD Viewfinder foggying up on you. A scolding mug of unfiltered water is used to demonstrate how fog will obstruct your visibility when shooting with an LCD Viewfinder. By simply applying MotoSolutions FogTech Anti-Fog Solution made for [...]
Today’s Tuesday Tip is brought to you by cucumber melon lotion and Final Cut Pro X. We show you how to utilize Final Cut Pro X’s Multicam editing controls to edit multiple camera and/or audio clips quickly and in real time. Highlight all the clips you want to use for your Multicam editing, right click [...]
Final Cut Pro X has a pretty cool feature called Optical Flow that allows you to create Slow Motion Video without having to install any additional plugins or purchase software. We shot the Diet Coke/Mentos video below on a Canon EOS Rebel T4i at 60 frames per second with a shutter speed of 125th. Yeah, [...]
It’s Tuesday Tip time! This week we school you on screen capturing with the app, Awesome Screenshot. This awesome app lets you Capture, Annotate and Share whatever you wish to capture from your computer screen. You can capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, one-click upload [...]
