Motion Graphic/Video/Cinematography

A Pocket Dolly with a Flywheel: Polly

A Pocket Dolly with a Flywheel: Polly

Feb 7, 2012

Most of the time, sliders can be a very useful devices that let us achieve dolly shots easily and affordably. However, the biggest challenge of using a slider is to make a shot really smooth and professional. To achieve smooth shot, we need a better build quality of the bearings of the devices. Not only that, the way we move the slider is...

50 Dollar Follow Focus

50 Dollar Follow Focus

Feb 6, 2012

Good news to all videographers, there’s a cheap follow focus currently being setup as a kickstart project that needs you to pledge to make this happen. It is a 50-Dollar Follow Focus. Being bold in term of the price, I think it well suits with those who are newly in the videography and cinematography arena. They will start the international shipping once...

3 Affordable Jibs

3 Affordable Jibs

Feb 6, 2012

The HDSLR revolution now has brought tons of new gear into the market including various types of jibs. Jibs are your friend if you’re a one man show kind of production but still want a pro looking camera movement. But the problem you’ll face is, one does not simply can afford to buy an expensive jib. As we are here, I will list out 3 affordable...

Canon 5D Mark III Spotted in the Wild

Canon 5D Mark III Spotted in the Wild

Feb 5, 2012

Few days back, there’s talk about these photos of a new camera by Canon that looks like the yet unannounced 5D mark III. Few things that you can notice from the photo of the new camera, it has the almost same 5D form factor with battery attached to the bottom. Still, there’s no flash and there’s the back side layout that really looks like the...

Editing Canon 5DmkII on an iPad2

Editing Canon 5DmkII on an iPad2

Feb 3, 2012

Jim Edds from ExtremeStorms.com has shared how to import footage directly from the Canon 5D mkII into an iPad2, edit the footage, and export out to your own FTP site uncompressed or to various common social site such as Youtube, Vimeo and Facebook. Not only that, you can also transfer video directly from your iPhone4 to the iPad by connecting the iPhone charge...

Canon Has Updated EOS Utility, Now Works on Mac OS X

Canon Has Updated EOS Utility, Now Works on Mac OS X

Feb 2, 2012

Great news to all Mac OS X users, Canon has updated their EOS Utility which now enables the Mac OS X user to experience the EOS Utility. Canon EOS Utility software is a software with the ability to edit picture styles on your HDSLR. Previously it has not worked on OSX Lion since Apple just released the new OS somewhere in the middle of 2011. The new updates of...

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