OpenShot is an open source video editor that just landed $45,028 in a Kickstarter campaign to create a version for both Mac and Windows. Watch the video here. While it may seem strange to think your next video editor might be open source, there are a number of factors conspiring to make it not only [...]

Anyone can shoot good video with enough equipment and crew behind them, but the real masters of the video craft are people who can move and shoot fast.  Bill Pryor has some tips for those who need to get their shots and move on. -Set up your gear before you get to the site or [...]

Back in the fall of 2008 after Vincent LaForet shot “Reverie” with a Canon 5DII, suddenly everybody who shot video wanted a 5DII. When manufacturers (mostly Red) started pushing 4K, suddenly everybody wanted a 4K camera. When the online “press” started promoting raw with the Black Magic Cinema Camera, suddenly everybody wanted a camera that [...]

More jobs in the video production business is a good thing and there may be more work on the horizon from companies like Google and Amazon. You can blame the hit $100 million dollar Netflix series House of Cards with Kevin Spacey and their pending reprise of Arrested Development series that put Netflix back in [...]

It’s like being transported back to college when someone laid a turd in the Whopatooli bowl, only this time we already know who dropped the deuce. Many video editors who switched from FCP to Premiere Pro after Apple laid the X egg are now feeling just as betrayed by Adobe’s plan to discontinue selling boxed [...]

Back in the good ol’ days if you wanted to buy a lens or set of lenses you’d go to your nearest professional photography store with camera in hand.  Let’s say you were interested in a 35mm lens. The owner of the shop (the owner was almost always present in those days) would set out [...]

I just bought a set of Rokinon cine lenses, and the first comment I got from a friend was: “Hey, you’re the guy who’s made all those posts saying lenses are forever, get good ones.” I plead guilty, but before I get charged with lens cognitive dissonance, allow me to explain.Lens quality is not a [...]

Two new cameras from Black Magic, just announced at the National Association of Broadcasters meeting in Las Vegas this week, is already available for preorder at B&H. One is being called the Pocket Cinema Camera (cue the standard jokes).  The specs are impressive for the footprint.                   [...]

I love good lenses. The feel of a Zeiss lens when I turn the focus ring is probably the same to me as a sip of a bottle of $500 wine to a wine connoisseur. Zeiss ZF and ZE lenses provide an excellent quality image. The Canon L lenses look good too, though they don’t [...]

                      A competitor has materialized to challenge GoPro with a rugged, waterproof housing, wifi and LCD screen included in the base model. With a price tag of $399 the Drift HD Ghost is priced competitively with the GoPro Hero 3 and has some compelling features including [...]