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  • Featured on Smartsound Sonficfire Website

    Featured on Smartsound Sonficfire Website

    Working with Sonicfire Pro 5 I have been using Sonicfire Pro 5 off and on now for about a year and am very happy with what they have to offer for royalty free music. If you haven’t checked them out yet, they are definitely worth a look! I am planning to do a tutorial on how to use Sonicfire Pro 5 so stay tuned. To view the article, click here

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  • Working with Kessler Crane

    Working with Kessler Crane

    Kessler University I recently spent some time down in Plymouth Indiana and Austin Texas with the crew from Kessler Crane (KC) — first to help shoot the Kessler Doc and then second to help with Masters in Motion. On both occasions I was blown away by the generosity of Eric and his team. I was recently asked to take the lead with Kessler University (KU), the Kessler Crane Blog website. KU features original series content, tutorial videos, showcase videos, and

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  • Nikon enters the video market with the D4!

    Nikon enters the video market with the D4!

    Introduction Okay, let me clarify. This isn’t Nikon’s first DSLR camera to have video but it IS the 1st that actually looks like it may be good at shooting video! Now, I don’t want to comment at this point about the camera until I shoot with it but I can say I am very excited! About the Camera Multi-area Mode Full HD D-movie with three image area options. A dedicated movie-record button has been positioned near the shutter-release button for

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  • Magic Lantern releases new HDR Firmware for Canon T2i/550D

    Magic Lantern releases new HDR Firmware for Canon T2i/550D

    ** NOTE: USE WITH CAUTION. Please add to your cameras at your own risk! Hope you have a great Christmas!** Magic Lantern Warning: (As of September 2009 the software has been downloaded over two thousand times and there have been no reports of damage to the cameras. While this is no guarantee of absolute safety, the stable releases have been tested by beta testers. Most of the risk is to the developers’ cameras while testing new features and probing new

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  • Peter Broderick, Composer of Confluence releases ‘Old Time’

    Peter Broderick, Composer of Confluence releases ‘Old Time’

    About the Film Erased Tapes has recently released a new video from footage shot for the documentary, Confluence. Both Philip and I shot a majority of the video. PETER BRODERICK – OLD TIME / SOLACE IN GALA The release of Music For Confluence will be preceded by the double A-side single Old Time / Solace In Gala on November 7th and includes an exclusive digital 14-track bonus score entitled Music For Grace And Mercy – a film of Haitians helping

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  • November 3rd Technology Announcements from the Sky @ 6pm! Canon Announces C300, Avid Announces Media Composer 6

    November 3rd Technology Announcements from the Sky @ 6pm! Canon Announces C300, Avid Announces Media Composer 6

    News from Canon, Red and Avid Tonight I will be shooting some demo footage with the Kessler Crane Cineslider and Oracle from the top of the Avord building in downtown Regina. I will be heading up at 6pm — just in time for all the announcements! Watch this Post for Updates! I am prepping this post for later tonight as I will be busy setting up time-lapses from the top of the Avord tower in Regina, SK. I am extremely

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  • Automatic Duck Download Now Free!

    Automatic Duck Download Now Free!

    Free Download of Automatic Duck! Wes and Harry have recently joined Adobe and are now offering Automatic Duck for free as they won’t be able to provide support any longer. To access downloads, please click here!     From Wes Greetings! We have some exciting news regarding Automatic Duck. Over these many years we’ve enjoyed improving the interchange between Avid, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Pro Tools, Smoke, Quantel and other AAF and OMF-friendly apps, and now we’re thrilled to

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  • Cinovu – An Online Platform for Independent Filmmakers

    Cinovu – An Online Platform for Independent Filmmakers

    My Thoughts This looks like very interesting concept and hope there is audience waiting for a site like this! I think the biggest determining factor is useability as well as quality of content. If you would like to support this project, please visit their IndieGoGo account. To view their website, click here. From Cinovu What drives us to work on this project to create something, that hasn’t existed before. We want to empower filmmakers, give them full control over distribution

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  • Canon Announces the 1Dx

    Canon Announces the 1Dx

    Finally a new full-frame camera from Canon! Today, Canon announced a long overdue upgrade to the 1D line of EOS cameras. Although marketed towards the photography market, it comes with some new video features worth noting. – Longer Record Time – Multiple Compression formats – Reduced Color artifacts and moiré – Better low-noise video, especially in low light – Timecode embedding!!! For a look at the press release provided by Canon, I have attached it at the bottom of the

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