My latest podcast CreativeSpeak, is now online. In this edition: Should you pay your cast and crew regardless? What makes a professional video or film? A GoPro battery discussion A FREE subsitute for expensive 3D modelling, animation and motion graphics applications Win a Zhiyun Molus G20 Lighting Kit worth over...
Italy’s Serie A1 Women Volleyball Championshio Uses Bespoke Multicamera OB Setup
Live event specialist AMS has implemented a multicamera OB featuring Blackmagic URSA Broadcast G2 and Studio Camera 4K Pro cameras to capture and broadcast the Serie A1 Women volleyball championship. AMS follows the four Piedmont teams, including Chieri, Cuneo, Pinerolo and Novara, in their home matches, which typically requires that...
Mandy Walker AM ACS ASC wins Milli Award for Australian Cinematographer of the Year at 2023 Fujinon Fujifilm ACS National Awards
At this year’s Fujinon Fujifilm Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) National Awards held at Luna Park in Sydney, it was Mandy Walker AM ACS ASC who won the prestigious Australian Cinematographer of the Year Milli Award. Walker also won a Gold Tripod in the Feature Films - Budget $2m and over category...
Major Vegas Pro video editing software outtage – and the fix.
Users of the Vegas Pro video editing system were somewhat – ah – peeved last evening when inexplicably, the software simply stopped working. In my case, I had just updated to the latest build, and upon restarting the program, after the splash screen and initialisation, it simply vanished. Windows Task...
Review: Vasco Da Gama 16 HD Ultimate and Vasco Street Maps 11
Review by Dr David Smith Creating professional quality travel animations and beautiful maps with 3D-rendered tourist features has long been the domain of two software packages from Motion Studios, founded in 1999 in Bremen, Germany. With its origins in the brilliant AMIGA platform Motion Studios gained an impressive reputation in...
DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.5 Public Beta 2
DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.5 Public Beta 2 and Fusion Studio 18.5 Public Beta 2 have been released. This software installs DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.5 public beta 2 which adds improvements to beta 1 release features, including better quality when encoding AAC audio, improved consistency when decoding H.264 and H.265 clips on some...
Weebill 3 Gets Another Gong
The ZHIYUN WEEBILL 3 has won the TIPA World Award 2023, for Best Video Accessory, and was the only camera gimbal to be awarded by TIPA among 40 different product categories. Thomas Gerwers, Chairman of TIPA said, "The latest WEEBILL 3 gimbal is an important tool for content creators and vloggers...
Broadcast News: Ross Video Attending Broadcast Asia 2023
Ross Video will be attending Broadcast Asia 2023 in Singapore from 7-9 June with a team of Ross experts who will be on booth 6B3-07 to connect with attendees and demonstrate the company’s latest product innovations, which enhance the capabilities and delivery of live video production workflows. These innovations span the product portfolio, including hyperconverged...
New Vegas Pro Update
Vegas Pro 20 Update 3 has been released and existing Vegas 20 users get it free. There are new multiple smart masks, transfer text properties, and further enhancements. If you’re new to VEGAS, you get these features along with everything else in the new version of VEGAS Edit, Pro and...
Want to try 3D Modelling, Animation and Motion Graphics? Read This.
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned I had found some really good training courses for Cinema 4D, the 3D modelling, animation and motion graphics program from Maxon / Red Giant. While there is a trial version of Cinema available, some may take a little longer to see if they...