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Tom from Timespace has just posted his latest timelapse movie – where he has perfected his homemade dolly moves:
http://www.vimeo.com/6686768He has posted a number of how-to/behind-the-scenes clips on how he achieved those amazing pictures: more…
Scott Simmons wrote an open letter to cameratechs, Please label tapes and disks: An open letter to DPs, camera ops, DITs. He pleads to label tapes/harddisks in the following matter:
a descriptor of the project date of acquisition resolution w/ progressive or interlaced frame rate acquisition codec camera used contact information for questions notes
So a tape label might look like this:
Fluffo corporate video
6/25/09
1080i
29.97
HDV
Canon HV20
Michael Bey cell 555-1212
director shot 24p
All pretty reasonable, and should be adopted as common practice. Actually, I would suggest adding ratio, operator and sound information.
I prepared a simple form in the popular .pdf format that you can download here: Tape card
I also added a line for ratio, pre-filled some standard values, and added some info as to sound. Feedback is very welcome!
You can print out a couple of these sheets, cut them in fourths and have them in the camera bag. Even when you are in a hurry, you can quickly give valuable information to the hard working editor. (If you have an inkjet printer, it might be an idea to get those labels photocopied, so that they will survive the rain you and your camera will have to endure.)
Dear editors, it would be great if you could give us camerafolk some feed-back about the raw footage. Both what you liked (we are humans, too), what is useless, what would make your life easier, and any other form of constructive criticism. (And if you could make a copy of the finished edit in the highest possible quality, you are entitled to some serious cameraman love 
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I recently bought some 190Ah batteries from Globalmediapro for our RED One and was quite disappointed to see that the camera would not boot up with them, while older, weaker batteries both from Globalmediapro and other manufacturers worked flawlessly. After Globalmediapro did not reply to my e-mail, I set upon finding out what was wrong. more…
A dutch blogger has an interesting project describing how he made a bluescreen himself. Or a greenscreen.
When I was a kid, I loved making flipbooks. They could have between 2 and 100 pictures. Flipbook.info is a great site that has many videos of antique flipbooks.
I was delighted to find out that there is software to print out your films, and make a thumb-able movie. For the Mac there is the free DYI flipbooks, and if you are on Windows, you can start your search here.
A US sandwich chain is taking the concept further and made a human flipbook:
And a fun how-did-they-make-it film:
Gems from the Web:
