Filmmakeriq.com has a good little article on what to do in a small town or place without a film permit office to deal with the cops before a shoot. Basically talk to the police first and let them know what you are doing, so if they get a call…A good idea, especially post 9/11.
Adam Wilt at the Pro Video Coalition has an extensive review of the Sony NEX-FS100 that is well worth checking out. I hadn’t realized it has the same sensor as the PMW-F3. This is really a great extensive review, and you should check it out.
Scott Kelby has a goof article on adobe’s release of Photoshop Touch for the iPad 2 (not for the iPad 1, which I have so I can’t check it out).It has Levels. It has Curves (it has CURVES!). It has Shadow/Highlight, there’s a Gaussian Blur Filter, you can add text, the Layers have blend modes (Screen, Multiply, Overlay, etc.), and you can show/hide them — change their opacity — create blank layers, duplicate layers, all that stuff. There are effects filters, there’s noise reduction, you can make selections (and you will love how they implemented them). You can share images direct to Facebook, and a whole bunch of other stuff I didn’t think would be there….but is.Of course, it doesn’t have everything the desktop Photoshop has (or there is no way it be able to run on a tablet), but I think you’ll be surprised at the cool stuff it does have.Sounds pretty cool, and I would love to try it out
Well looks 500px is getting enough negative feedback that they are making some changes.Now when you click on a person’s profile the first thing you get is their pictures and not the flow, which is a vast improvement, but still not perfect, as I would like to be able to say what people see about me. If they only see my pictures, or if I let them see my pictures and activities as well. This is a privacy concern to me and I wish they would fix it, but it looks like they won’t.Second friends are back, or at least half back. There is now a page that shows your friends new photos, but there is not an RSS feed for it. So you have to go to your web site to see new photos, and it constantly updates and is impossible to jump in where you previously were (which was why the RSS feed was the perfect way for this to work).And to me the big piss off is that they have not responded at all to my request for a refund, even with a negative. I assume they are adding new features and trying to wait people out, but the no response makes me even more angry.This was such a great site, and while it is closer to what it was, it is still broken. And if they don’t return the friend functionality I still want a refund.
Creative Cow has the press release on this new defocus tool that works with Noise Industries FX Factory.Some Features areChroma Aberration – Editors can simulate chroma aberration – the imbalance of RGB color channels that can occur with camera lenses.Fast Defocus – This effect can be used to simulate ‘bokeh,’ or out-of-focus lens effects. Editors can create depth of field with the use of a depth mask, rack-focus effects, and more.Pan / Tilt – A popular effect used in many motion pictures and music videos, users can create a tilt-shift setup for still and motion picture cameras, with smooth, defocused gradients.Vignette Vision – With two effects options, editors can defocus either the outer edge or the center of the image. Defocusing the outer edge simulates POV shots, vintage lenses and more. Defocusing the center of the image allows editors to censor images, create hallucinations, etc.You can read all about it at Noise Industries Site.
I gave up on FCP X, but it does look to be getting better, though I still find the timeline to be useless, and hate that they are trying to force me to edit how they want me to, but people are using it, and it is improving.The guys at FCP.Co have posted a video from Mark Spencer and Steve Martin on Macbreak Studio on how to use the new multi-cam feature.Part 2 of 3 has now been released.Part 3 of 3 is now out.
DSLR News Shooter has some info on a new Cinevate Trawly, 3 in one Camera Dolly, Tripod and handheld rig.Here is a Video on it.Trawly - Compact Camera Dolly from Cinevate on Vimeo.It is $49 until March 1st, then goes up. You can read more about it at Cinevate’s web site.Looks very cool.
AVID has released the Media Composer Editing Guide v6.0 in PDF form. It is 1555 pages and well worth checking out!
Filmmakeriq.com has a video on making your own rideable dolly, and track. It looks like a pretty decent dolly, and I wouldn’t mind trying this one out.
PCWorld has the article on this, but Adobe has announced a very cool new service that is going to get subscriptions out of a lot of us, and you can actually read about it at Adobe’s own web site.It seems in the first half of 2012 there will be a new way to get Adobe Apps. Instead of upgrading the Master Suite, or which ever version of the creative suite that you use, you can do a $49.99, which comes to about $600 a year, and you get access to not only the full all of the Creative Suite Desktop Tools now including Adobe Lightroom (which was always separate), as well Adobe Edge and Muse online web creation tools, all the new Adobe Touch Apps for iPad and Android. You also get Device and PC Sync, 20GB of cloud storage, Adobe Typekit for cloud based web fonts, the digital publishing suite, and the community.And of course that is not all. The coolest things is that you get aces to betas of all the new software before it is released to the public with the latest new technology previews in it. No longer waiting for new features, you can try them out right away!Very cool! I think that is where I will be heading!