Category: Video
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UrtheCast – 4K footage from the ISS
UrtheCast has started selling their footage collected in 4K from their camera on the International Space Station.
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YouTube ingest file format statistics
The engineers over at YouTube have published a blog post about the trends of video files uploaded for ingest at YouTube. The progress of various formats over time is revealing.
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Monash campaign: Question the answers
With David Wenham.
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World class – show and tell
Bunch of short films in a competition sponsored by the Australian Department of Education, encouraging uni students to study abroad. Interesting mix. Lots of GoPro. Two Curtin students are runners up.
Show & Tell – Short Film Competition
Current student winner
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdTMcK3nN3I[/youtube]Graduate winner
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjy1TDHm0Dc[/youtube]Runners up
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/149111356[/vimeo]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d3zHY2p-wY[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FjRo_1UtjA[/youtube]
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Exporting multipage PDF as images
A common problem for adding stills of a PowerPoint slideshow that has been PDF’d into a video is to export each slide as an image. Automator on the Mac can render/raster each page of a PDF as an image.
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The Beautiful Lie scene breakdown
John Brawley, DP for the ABC drama The Beautiful Lie breaks down a couple of scenes on his blog. Provides a great insight into lighting and shooting techniques for dramatic narrative television.
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Travels with the US VP
The White House media team is publishing it’s own “reality”, in this one the US Vice President Biden visits Ukraine.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpI-gPhc538[/youtube]
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Flicker removal in post
Philip Bloom recently shot the US snow blizzard at the New York Times Square in high frame rate for slow motion. There’s a lot of artificial light in that space, and so would cause flickering when retimed. He used Digital Anarchy’s Flicker Free plugin for Premiere.
Raw, ungraded edit
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/152858304[/vimeo]Graded and flicker removed
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/152859820[/vimeo]