Your eyes know that lamp is orange. Your camera has no idea. Here is what white balance actually is, why auto is the wrong place to leave it, and the four Kelvin numbers worth memorising.
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Apple is dropping Intel for its own chips, and whatever you edit in, it affects you. Three reasons why, written days after the announcement, with a scorecard at the end for how every one of my predictions actually turned out.
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A six-core laptop that cost me over $3,000 in 2018 now costs $860. Four laptops that will edit 4K under a thousand dollars, the upgrades worth making, and the corner each one cuts to get there.
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The DJ’s mic will cut out during a toast, and you cannot ask anyone to give it again. Two cheap accessories that put a second recorder inside the microphone your talent is already holding.
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Three prebuilt 4K editing PCs under a thousand dollars, what each one needs upgrading, and why the day you buy matters almost as much as which one you buy.
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Premiere can hand your exports off to your graphics card, which took a 14 minute export down to four. Here is how to turn hardware encoding on, and how to fix it whenever the box is greyed out.
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