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By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) RØDE continues to shore up its line of external microphones by giving yet another model the Rycote Lyre shock mount treatment. This time it's the Stereo Video Mic Pro microphone. But there's a few more improvements that may cause you to want to upgrade. … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Blackmagic is putting the finishing touches on its next generation firmware for the URSA Mini Cinema Camera and is opening up a public beta to get user feedback. Through version 4.0, users can expect improved camera performance plus several new features. … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Red Giant has made a name for itself in the post-production world as a leading third party plugin maker. Just last month they celebrated their fifth anniversary by taking 25% off of their Magic Bullet Suite and all related individual tools for a 24-hour period, and … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) The one drawback in mobile filmmaking is that a smartphone can only zoom digitally, and its depth of field is non-existent without an app, or some post-processing gimmickry. But that all could change with a new design that uses dual cameras to mimic optical zoom and … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) About two weeks ago Samsung announced the PM1633a solid state drive with a massive 15.36 terabytes of storage space. The unit it available for around $10,000 (or less if you shop around) and I titled the article with "the world's largest SSD." Well, thanks to … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Blackmagic has released a new update to DaVinci Resolve 12.5, which promises enhancements that include Apple ProRes Decode for Windows and a plethora of additional editing tools. … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) If you've been watching the Rio Olympics, you've probably seen that cool Google commercial where people are capturing their priceless moments on their mobile device and they run out of storage space. It's an ingenious bit of marketing. The iPhone is incapable of … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Despite many misconceptions, the most important part of cinematography and photography isn't the camera but the light. Finding the right time to shoot something outdoors is a bit of a feat, but fortunately there's an app for that. GoldenHour.One is a simple iOS … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Virtual Reality content company SpaceVR is planning to go where no man has gone before ... by sending virtual reality into Space. Thanks to a launch agreement with Satellite company NanoRacks LLC, the VR company hopes to send the first VR satellite up into low earth … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Canon's EOS 5D camera sparked a filmmaking revolution when the MK II was released back in 2008. It was replaced with the MK III four years ago, and now the camera is about ready for a major refresh. As the current camera gets long in the tooth, the Canon 5D … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Filmmakers looking to raise funds to complete their movies may want to look at BitTorrent. The file sharing software company and streaming network has created a special fund which will award content creators for releasing their projects online. … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Like most low budget filmmakers, Shane Vader took to crowdfunding to raise money for the proof of concept opening to his scifi/horror project. He wasn't looking for a lot, only a modestly evil sum of $666. He was hoping that one of his role models, Guillermo del Toro, … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Samyang has announced a super fast 20mm lens as part of their ongoing 2016 Summer Samyang Blockbusters promotion, where they planned to introduce five new lens over the course of five weeks that began on July 18. The lens comes in two configurations: the … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) 4K and above requires a tremendous amount of bandwidth, even when you're moving edit files from one work station to another. Proxies help, but when you're reading the mastering phase, or recording at super high frame rates, you'll be moving a huge amount of data. … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) We all know how the faithful at RED love to use the RED RAW R3D codec to capture the most detail and image information as possible, without having to break the bank with an uncompressed data file. Now Sony wants in on that action, so they've created their own … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) While our technology obsession continues, such as missing out on flash sales over 8K RED Helium cameras, most shooters are still contemplating simply moving to 4K. What's taking so long? Well, could it be that most broadcasters aren't even showing their programming … [Read more...]
