How Lucasfilm’s Master Foley Artist Perfected the Sounds in Your Favorite Movies

WIRED gets a tour from veteran Foley artist John Roesch of the Skywalker’s custom built soundstage. Roesch reveals some of the strangest audio props that were used in films like ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit,’ ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Braveheart’.Read More

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Making Deadpool’s Mask

Behind the scenes clip showing how the Deadpool mask was made.Read More

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How to Calibrate Your Lens’s Auto Focus

Jay P. Morgan from  The Slanted Lens demonstrates how to calibrate your lenses using Datacolor’s SpyderLENSCAL by adjusting the auto-focus micro-adjustment for each lens:Read More

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New York in 1993 in HD – DTheater DVHS Demo Tape

Check out this rare HD look at New York City from 1993 in this demo for D-VHS – an rare HD variation that worked on S-VHS tape. Though this demo came out in 2002, the footage itself is from 1993 (as told by the ads in Time Square) recorded by perhaps a Sony SONY HDC-500 attached Read MoreRead More

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The Science of Rendering Photorealistic CGI A Filmmaker IQ Lesson!!!

How do we get a glorified adding machine to generate a photorealistic image? Find out as we explore the processes developed over 40 years of intensive computer science research which now bring amazing Visual Effects to the silver screen which include Rasterization, Ray Casting, Ray Tracing and the Rendering Equation. This lesson is sponsored by Read MoreRead More

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Keeping it Simple Doesnt Make for Exciting Internet Buzz

There’s a term I learned from Adobe a few years ago - Demo-ware. Those are features and functions that make for a great demo at a convention but really have little practical application. Unfortunately a lot of production gear seems to be moving in that direction. In my last course video on blocking, I talked about Read MoreRead More

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Switcher Studio Brings Live Camera Switching to Smart Phones

NAB is nothing without the buzz and excitement from big companies offering their latest wares – but truth be told the real joy is finding smaller companies with unique and innovative ideas. Switcher Studio, is one of those companies with a modest footprint on the show floor but a potentially useful product solution. Basically Switcher Read MoreRead More

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NAB 2016s Game Changers The Booths with the Best Candy

Every April video technophiles make their annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas to take part in one the biggest conventions in the video and broadcast world. No I’m not talking about the Movie Theater Owner’s Convention - I’m talking about the NAB show. Previous years have brought us industry trends and breakthroughs like HD, UHD and that Read MoreRead More

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A Sneak Peak at Adobe’s Upcoming Video Features

With NAB just around the corner – Adobe has released their latest updates to their Creative Cloud software: To me, the most exciting new feature is how proxies are going to be handled. Now that every camera is throwing out bigger and bigger files into our workflow, responsiveness can suffer. And when you’re waiting, you Read MoreRead More

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Close Encounters of the Drone Kind | Shanks FX

Joey Shanks puts attaches all sorts of lights to his drone to create eerie UFO footage:Read More

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Academy Close-Up: Film Conservators

The Academy conservation team takes viewers behind the scenes to show what they do as conservators working on the paper-based collections of the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library.Read More

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The Rise of a New Hollywood in China

China’s film industry has grown so big so fast, that it is now looking to compete with Hollywood View More: 60 Minutes News|Live News|More News VideosRead More

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How a Director Stages and Blocks a Scene – A Filmmaker IQ Course!!!

How a director stages a scene dramatically affects the story – in this experiment at YouTube Space LA, we take a boilerplate police detective script and shoot it five ways with five different types of blocking to demonstrate how direction and acting can really change the feel of a scene. This experiment will take the Read MoreRead More

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