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michael

How To Make A Hollywood Movie

Posted on August 1st, 2011 Written on michael's blog

Comments: 1

Lights... camera... action..... An interesting article in this morning's Financial Times entitle A Cloud Up In The Air tells us a lot about the future of our own industry and the video revolution. Technology, as we know, is the irresisitable driver of change. And often, one technology is linked to another in a kind of domino effect. If you can see that changes that are coming, you can prepare for the demands for the future. In this case, the change is the end of the DVD market. To anyone who ha

Tags : iPhone , DSLR , Final , Cut , Pro , Hollywood , DVD , Financial , Times , Movies

michael

Learn Final Cut Pro - X: An Overview

Posted on July 1st, 2011 Written on michael's blog

Comments: 3

and now it begins... Final Cut Pro X has been nothing but controversial Professionals across the blogosphere (and a few German dictators from the 1930s) have expressed their rising anger with Apple; not for creating FCPX, but rather for discontinuing FCP7. They see FCPX as iMovie Pro. They may be right. It might also be that FCPX is really all you need, at least for 95% of video online. For me, the jury is still out. The genius of Apple, since Lisa, has always been that they have simplified th

Tags : Final , Cut , Pro , X , Apple , Final , Cut , Pro

pfbentley

TO TRIPOD OR NOT TO TRIPOD

Posted on June 16th, 2011 Written on pfbentley's blog

Comments: 2

I’ll be right up front with this - Michael Rosenblum taught me a lot in the world of video, he’s the the Guru of Video Journalism in my book - but like any student, you grow up and disagree on some things. We disagree in the use of tripods. He against using them. I use them. Well, I need to clarify both those statements. Michael feels tripods are not necessary, most of the time. I feel they are a necessary evil, most of the time. In 2006, Michael hired me to be lead cameram

Tags : PF , BENTLEY , NYVS , DOCUMENTARY , FILMMAKING , DOCUMENTARY , FILMMAKING

michael

CBS Reporter Shooting News with an iPhone

Posted on June 6th, 2011 Written on michael's blog

Ed Curran, a reporter for WBBM-TV in Chicago (the CBS affiliate) is reporting on the CES show in Las Vegas using an iPhone with an owle adapter. Curran has outfitted his iPhone with an Owle bube, a fancy iPhone holder designed to enhance video shooting with Apple’s cell phone. Standing for “Optical Widgets for Life Enhancement,” the Owle helps Curran hold his

Tags : Owle , iPhone , Curran , WBBM , shooting

pfbentley

DAMN THE TORPEDOS, FULL SPEED AHEAD

Posted on June 3rd, 2011 Written on pfbentley's blog

Comments: 5

I’m PF Bentley and welcome to PF’s Corner a new blog/column/tech help and advice to the lovelorn on NYVS. I’ll be chiming in here when possible on whatever topics come to mind and answer some of your probing technical questions. A little about my background - I was a contract photographer for TIME Magazine for almost 20 years roaming the world but mainly shooting behind the scenes politics on the presidential campaigns, Capitol Hill and The White House. In 1993, I was introdu

Tags : PF BENTLEY , VIDEO , NYVS , DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING

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