Post Production

NASA Footage

These top 20 Earth Images of 2020 are a perfect example of NASA footage you can use. NASA allows anyone to use these photos and videos according to the NASA FAQ. There are a few conditions, but in general "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted. If...

Changing Faces

Changing Faces

Today you can download software that uses machine learning to perform a convincing digital video face-swap. The video is called a deepfake. It can stitch the eyes of one person onto the face of another person doing lip-sync karaoke. It isn’t perfect yet, but it could...

The VLC 3.0 Revolution

The VLC 3.0 Revolution

We've been recommending VLC for a while here. Whether it is for converting video files, recording a webcam, screen recording or other video tasks VLC is a much better media player than Windows Media Player and Apple Quick Time. VLC can play virtually any video format....

Orson Welles’ Unfinished Film Acquired by Netflix

Orson Welles’ Unfinished Film Acquired by Netflix

Orson Welles’ unfinished final film, “The Other Side of the Wind,” is about to be completed. Netflix has acquired global rights to ‘The Other Side of the Wind” and is financing the completion. To complete the film the producers have hired an Academy Award winning...

How To Use Google Photos

How To Use Google Photos

Google Photos is the best cloud photo storage site that makes backing up and organizing your photo library very easy. It's remarkable how well it identifies people in your library even as babies. It also makes automatic GIFs and movies from your photos. You can get...

How To Use A Waveform Monitor

How To Use A Waveform Monitor

A waveform monitor is a special type of oscilloscope used to measure and display the level, or voltage, of the lines of a video signal over time. The light in a scene is translated to voltage with brighter light showing as higher voltage. Many videographers shoot...

Color Grading With LUTS

Color Grading With LUTS

Color grading with LUTS has become very common in film and video production. Color grading is the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture, video image, or still image. Today this is done digitally. Color correction, on the other hand, is done...