Ruh-Roh – What Can We Trust Now?

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We can no longer trust our eyes. In case you've missed it - say, distracted by the dumpster fire that is our government in Washington DC these days - a number of technological developments are threatening to obliterate our ability to tell if a documentary (or Video Blog posting, or…
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New 4K Camera

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New camera! [caption id="attachment_755" align="alignright" width="300"] New Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K[/caption] Today at the NAB convention, Black Magic Design unveiled the recently teased successor to their pocket cinema camera.  Other than the dslr form factor, which makes handheld documentary production a challenge, it seems to have overcome all…
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Cameras the cool kids use.

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[caption id="attachment_710" align="alignleft" width="150"] Sony FS7-ii [/caption] I look forward to seeing this sort of survey every year, but that just marks me as a gear freak.  It seems pretty clear that shooting in 4K, and using a log color space and at least a 10 bit, 4:2:2 codec (to allow…
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What’s in a Career?

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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200"] American School Counselor Association[/caption] Did you ever go to a career counselor in college?  In Medical School?  How about High School?  How did it go?  Did it help you make any decisions?  To pick a profession - maybe decide between Nursing and Medicine? When I started…
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Say What? On an iPad?

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Echoing the democratization of audio recording tools in the 1990s, film and video production has become dramatically cheaper in recent years.  This is great for independent filmmakers, and for all creative people wanting to break in to film.  Now, instead of having to be the offspring of a famous director, or the…
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