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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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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Three techniques for using manual focus lenses on a gimbal or Glidecam, without a follow focus and without buying new autofocus glass.
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Someone asked you to film their wedding. What you charge sets what they expect, so for your first one, charge low. Free is fine. Here is why.
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