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Transferring Audio with Audacity

Transferring Audio with Audacity

If you record or mix audio, you need to know about this free program. This program is to audio what VLC is to video. It is cross platform. And it has all the power you'd want. It won't burn CDs, but does just about everything else. This open-source application is...

Some Cheap Lighting Tricks

Some Cheap Lighting Tricks

If you know how to light, there are some cheap lighting tricks you can find in a hardware store or online. If you are shooting a living room that includes table lights, it's standard practice to temporarily replace the incandescent light bulbs. Use similar bulbs which...

360 Replay at Super Bowl LI

360 Replay at Super Bowl LI

FOX Sports joined with Intel to bring a new Player’s-Eye View to Super Bowl LI. This is not captured by Go Pros worn by players like Fox referee GoPro cams. This new system uses Intel’s 360 Replay technology. It includes 38 separate 5K cameras circling the playing...

4K or HDR Video?

4K or HDR Video?

Most consumers looking for TV sets are going to look for 4K sets, even though 4K resolution is only visible on really big screens. It's true that 4K TV delivers four times the amount of information in a video frame as a HD display. But what is often overlooked is the...

Panasonic GH5

Panasonic GH5

CES didn't have much pro camera gear this year, and that makes the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH5 stand out. This upgrade of their professional hybrid Micro Four Thirds camera features 4K video capture and up to 60fps, in-body image stabilization, and programmable focus...

Steadicam Shots You Should Know

Steadicam Shots You Should Know

The Steadicam® is now 40 years old. The Steadicam was invented and developed by Garret Brown who won 5 Academy Awards for it. Let's look at some of the high points of its contribution to the film and video language. The first use of a Steadicam was in the film Bound...

360 Degree Video from American Museum of Natural History

360 Degree Video from American Museum of Natural History

This 360 degree video below from American Museum of Natural History is called "Fossil Hunting in the Gobi." It portrays 1920s fossil-hunting expeditions to the Gobi Desert with a legendary paleontologist, and then segues to the Museum’s modern-day collections. The 360...

HTML5 Video

HTML5 Video

HTML5 video is becoming the new standard way to show video on the web without plugins, instead of the previous de facto standard Adobe Flash. That program had so many critical vulnerabilities that it was finally retired. Adobe Flash is technically gone, with Adobe...

Digital Restoration of the Zapruder Film

Digital Restoration of the Zapruder Film

The Zapruder film is a silent, 8mm color motion picture sequence shot by private citizen Abraham Zapruder with a home-movie camera. Zapruder filmed President John F. Kennedy's motorcade as it passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. This...