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Night Interior Lighting During The Day

Greg from LensProToGo returns for another CLB, or Cinematography Lighting Breakdown. He shows you how they shot a night interior during the day using just two lights. Camera Settings CAMERA - Arri Alexa... Read More...

Learn Loop Knots Thanks to Grip Tips

Dave Donaldson from Grip Tips is back with another helpful lesson on loop knots. Today we learn how to tie a Bowline, a Bowline on a Bight, and the Alpine Butterfly Loop knots This episode is sponsored by... Read More...

Cinematography Lighting Breakdown and a look at a Brightly Lit Clean Commercial Shot

Greg from LensProToGo introduces their Cinematography Lighting Breakdown and a look at a Brightly Lit Clean Commercial Shot. Well talk about the setup and Gear used as well as some problems we ran into. ... Read More...

Meet The Gaffer Gives a Hotel Interview Walkthrough

Luke Seeveld does it again as the guy behind Meet The Gaffer!! This time it is a somewhat simple hotel interview set up walkthrough. Handy to see how others do it though. ... Read More...

Meet The Gaffer Does a Commercial Shoot Walkthrough

Luke Seeveld aka Meet The Gaffer goes through a day of production step by step, pointing out the lighting and grip choices used to light up scenes on a set. There are many ways of doing the same thing, but s... Read More...

Build the ARRI Alexa Mini, Plus a Review & Loads of Tips by Camera Ambassador

Chicago based rental house, Camera Ambassador take a good long hard look at the ARRI Alexa Mini camera. Check out their tips and tests with the ARRI Alexa Mini camera. To maintain ARRI’s famously rugged b... Read More...

How to Shoot Action Comedy Movies Like Kingsman The Secret Service Tips From StudioBinder

StudioBinder drop some how to tips about the movie Kingsman The Secret Service. We’re outlining the five ingredients you need to make a great action comedy. Transcript: How To Shoot Action Co... Read More...

DaVinci Resolve 14 New Features Round Up by Casey Faris

Casey Faris takes a look at the new features coming with the release of DaVinci Resolve 14 software from Blackmagic Design. Davinci Resolve 14 Public Beta came out a few days ago. Here are some thoughts abou... Read More...

All You Need To Know About Proxy Files

Thanks to LensProToGo we have Dave from Archaius Creative talking about what proxies are and how you can use them to increase workflow and edit higher res footage on a less pro computer. Enjoy Dave's three p... Read More...

What I Wish I Knew Starting as a DP from Julia Swain & Aputure

Aputure's 4 Minute Film School host Ted is joined by Director of Photography Julia Swain, and they talk about what Julia wishes she knew in the beginning when she started out in the industry. See Aputure... Read More...

Lighting the Same Scene in Four Different Genres

Aputure along with DP Julia Sawain do a lighting experiment with their 4 Minute Film School lesson. What happens when you take 2 actors and the same set, but just change wardrobe and lighting? How many diff... Read More...

Sand Bags Vs Shot Bags

Is there much of a difference between production sand Bags and shot bags? Dave Donaldson from Grip Tips takes a look for the answer. This episode is sponsored by Lightbulb Grip, a rental house in Brooklyn, ... Read More...

A Lesson on How To Properly Balance A Tripod from Stray Angel Films

Camera rental house & production company located in Los Angeles, Stay Angel Films demonstrate how they achieve a properly balanced tripod. If you can add to the lesson, or have a different method, please sh... Read More...

A Lesson on C-Stands from Grip Tips

Grip Tip's Dave Donaldson talks about C-Stands. He even drops a C-Stand history lesson on why C-Stands are named so. One of the most powerful tools in the Army that is Grip and Electric, today's episode look... Read More...

Gaff Tape Vs Photo Black Tape

Dave Donaldson AKA Grip Tips, looks at Gaff Tape Vs Photo Black tape. In this episode we talk about why gaff tape should almost never be used and an industry standard tape that is used all the time but never... Read More...

How To Get a Start In The Film Industry

Anthony Dod Mantle DFF, ASC, B.S.C. talks about how to get a start in the film industry thanks to Cook Optics, the British Society of Cinematographers, and ImageNova. We interviewed cinematographer Anthony D... Read More...

Four Practical Lighting Hacks thanks to Aputure

The Aputure 4 Minute Film School with Ted Sim and guest DP Julia Swain go over how you cam create four common practical lighting situations: a TV screen, a projector, city lights, and police lights. Jul... Read More...

High Key lighting / Cinematic Lighting Done CINEMATIC J Style

Hey hey it's Cinematic J time with a look at high key lighting as a technique to light images with not much contrast and not very many shadows. Used for films where contrast is not necessary and a softer li... Read More...

How to Use False Colour: Analyzing Footage and Ratios – Part 2 from LensProToGo

Greg from LensProToGo demonstrates how to use false colour settings and analyzing footage and ratios in part two of this series. In Part two of this series I will show you how read and analyze false color so... Read More...

Clean Colour Blocking Transition Effect: Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 How To / Tutorial

Justin Odisho explains with a small tutorial how to do a clean colour blocking transition effect using the Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 software. Learn how to create this clean and minimal color matte transiti... Read More...

Using False Colour: Setting up in DaVinci Resolve from LensProToGo

LensProToGo drop a handy tip for setting up false colour in the DaVinci Resolve software programme. In Part one of this series I will show you how to set up false color in DaVinci resolve so you can start an... Read More...