Two export recipes for DaVinci Resolve: H.265 at double your frame rate for uploading, and H.264 at a much higher bitrate for client delivery, so nobody gets a file their computer cannot play.
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Seven music licensing sites compared for wedding filmmakers: Musicbed, Track Club, Soundstripe, Artlist, MusicVine, Epidemic Sound and Audiio, with what each costs and which to start with.
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The one menu setting that fixes overheating nine times out of ten, plus battery grips, dummy batteries, and a DIY hot shoe sunshade you can cut out of a pizza box.
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Horizontal footage on a vertical timeline, plus export settings that will not choke Instagram. Here is the full DaVinci Resolve 18 workflow for Reels, including the two Mismatched Resolution settings almost everybody misses.
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Two cameras that look almost identical, with a thousand dollars between them. Here is every difference that actually matters for video: the 1.5x crop at 4K 60, the slow motion ceiling, low light, memory card slots, overheating, and who each camera is really for.
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PP8, meter 1.7 to 2.0 stops over, zebras at 94, and stay on ISO 800 or 3200. Here is the whole S-Log3 workflow for the Sony a7 IV, including why dropping below base ISO quietly breaks your zebras.
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