Recent content by Andrius Simutis

Anyone remember these? The old Sony three point edit controllers? aaaah, preroll.... Any of the modern NLEs are going to give you similar options, so it just becomes a question of interface preference. If you really want to learn how to edit, set up one of these relics and give your students a...

I'm not really out in the field shooting that much these days but just got pulled into a job I couldn't refuse. Cue Deniro in Godfather III "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!" I'm flying in to do this shoot arriving the same time as the subjects and the director, and they will...

Doesn't get much easier than this: It's just a long plate on the camera and a short Manfrotto plate on the lens collar to make up the difference in height. **edit: What the?! Why is my photo upside down here and nowhere else?

Don't get too discouraged. Take all this as a learning opportunity and use it to make the next shot better. Even big productions don't always have everything they'd want to make a shot perfect so they take what they have and improvise. I worked on a TV shoot with a really talented DP that was...

A couple thoughts on selling the location as a bar. It doesn't look like one in a wide shot, so don't shoot wide. The first shot that shows the bartender shows a background that isn't a typical bar, so don't show that background. A tighter shot on him with a shallower depth of field and some...

That's a nice USB drive! If that's a little out of your budget, you can always go with the VX1000 from Death Lens! http://deathlens.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/vx1000-16g-usb-flash-drive

What about if your hero kicks or pulls one of the tail lights loose? Then you'd have a good light source with an explanation of why it's there. To replace a tail light in most cars you have to access it through the trunk. Your hero can be pulling at the interior panels to get to the lights and...

You don't recognize the avatar photo? He's a very depressed robot.

I've got some footage I shot in 60i on a C100 with the intention of it being slowed 40% in a 24p timeline to make slomo out of it. I do this in Premiere almost automatically, but I'm wondering if Avid will do this too, or will Avid just insist that the footage is 60i on ingest and not do a nice...

Whenever I hear about people's wish lists for a new product, I think of this:

Too late for Scott, but for anyone else looking for a desk...stop looking and start building! Here's my current desk that I built last summer. Eight feet wide to handle multiple monitors and keep my MacPros off the floor and most importantly...Cable management built in!

No budget? Maybe clamping it to a ladder would work?

Anyone hear any updates on the release of DaVinci Resolve 11? It's supposed to be released in June, and we're right in the middle of June now.

I'm going to be shooting a music video this weekend and for part of it we really want that slight haze effect for the light beams to show. The only catch is that the venue we'll be shooting in has let us know that they will absolutely NOT allow a fog machine to be used. It turns out that they...

I know production can be a lot of "hurry up and wait", but it doesn't look like those grips are working at all. Here's a working grip on the job: