Canon Cinema EOS C300
Earlier this month, Canon announced the C300 as the first product in their new Cinema EOS series, which they see as their next step in the world of digital filmmaking. They stumbled into the forefront...
View ArticleAct of Valor
So Act of Valor, the big project that I have been working on for the last four years, finally was released last month. It has been pretty exciting to see this project go all the way from an...
View ArticlePreparing for Act of Valor
When we first started preparing to shoot Act of Valor, over four years ago, we had to decide what cameras to use. Up to that point all of our work at Bandito Brothers had been shot on HD-Cam, XD-Cam...
View ArticleShooting Act of Valor
We shot the movie on a wide variety of locations, over about a year. Scott and Mouse originally intended to utilize the 5D’s unique capabilities to capture the intensity of the combat scenes, and use...
View ArticleEditing Act of Valor
When we first started out, we had no idea how much footage we would be shooting for the movie, because the 5D lends itself to a different type of shooting style than traditional filmmaking, and we had...
View ArticleNAB 2012 – Part 1
So NAB is here again. 4K and Thunderbolt seem to be the most popular topics at the show, with 3D hardly being advertised. There are a lot of new products that have been announced over the last few...
View ArticleVisual Effects on Act of Valor
At Bandito Brothers, we have always prided ourselves in being authentic and real. This is one of the values that led Scott and Mouse to cast real Navy SEALS for the main roles in Act of Valor, and...
View ArticleNew Announcements in the World of Hardware
There have been a few interesting product announcements this week, presumably due to the IBC show inEurope. Most of them relate to the development of new tools for 4K workflows, which I expect will be...
View ArticleMore New Cameras from Canon
Canon’s camera division seems to have been very busy recently. Besides the Rebel T4i which I examined in my last post, they have also released three other new cameras, which are all very different...
View ArticleNew Products from NVidia and Canon
It has been a while since I have posted on here, but that is because there haven’t really been any significant developments worth noting. But there are now a few to summarize before the deluge of NAB...
View ArticleNeed For Speed
In my role at Bandito Brothers, I have been working for the last year on the film Need for Speed, which releases in theaters this Friday. This has been a very different project from our last one, Act...
View ArticleIBC 2014 Announcements
As always, Blackmagic Design had a number of new products to announce at IBC. But their biggest news to release, was their acquisition of Eyeon Software, makers of Fusion 7. I have never used Fusion...
View ArticleIBC 2015 News
So with IBC opening this week in Amsterdam, there are a few new announcements worth noting. Now that 4K is old news, and supported by most products, regardless of who is actually using it, HDR is the...
View ArticleNAB 2016 Wrapup
We see ourselves in a place where UHD has become pretty ubiquitous, and can be recorded and viewed on a cell phone. So the natural question is: what next? One approach is to pursue higher resolution,...
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