DSLR Video

Free Webinar on Color Grading with Tiffen

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Creative Color Grading – Fast!

Learn how to approach color grading tasks from production to post. Learn important techniques about what to shoot in the field including camera profile, white balance information, and essential metadata. Then in post you'll learn how to create popular looks that clients want. This workshop will explore both general techniques and theory as well as a detailed look at Tiffen Dfx Video/Film tool set.

  • Each attendee will receive a 15 day trial as well as a special discount on the software.
  • One lucky attendee with receive a give-away of a full license of the software
  • To register for Creative Color Grading Webinar, click here

Selecting storage for video editing

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When it comes time to edit your video, the hard drives you use are going to have a huge impact on the performance of your system. No matter how much RAM you have or how powerful a video card, you won’t get real-time performance if your drives are a bottleneck.

Important factors

There are three factors when choosing a disk for video editing:

  • Speed: The speed of drive is the most important factor in determining what media you can play off it. Drives like internal laptop drives or bus-powered USB drives are generally not fast enough to edit HD video.
  • Capacity: When you start to edit HD video, you’ll quickly use up disk space. For example, each minute of video shot on a Canon 5D Mark II is about 320MB. In order to get the storage you need, you may invest in multiple drives or drives that are striped together for a performance RAID.
  • Redundancy: To avoid losing their video footage, most video creators choose to back up to two or more drives or to use additional methods like Blu-ray Disc. Look at redundant drives (such as RAIDs)

Drive technology


Be sure to consider your options when looking at hard drives.

  • Internal drive solutions: Many computers support multiple drive slots. Consider placing a fast SATA drive internally into your computer as a performance disk. Keep it only as a scratch disk and avoid installing application or system files on it.
  • External and portable drive solutions: Several different drives are available once you’ve maximized your internal storage. You’ll find both single- and multiple-drive solutions. Look for units offering connections like FireWire, USB3, or eSATA.
  • Networked RAIDs: Several professional drives allow multiple users to connect simultaneously. These solutions are important if you work in a multiple editor environment and need to share projects or assets.


For more on Adobe pro video workflow, check out the new website — Creative Cloud User.

Time-Lapse: RAW Workflow Part 2

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Adorama Photography TV Presents DSLR | Video Skills with Rich Harrington. In the second episode of this three-part series, we continue with the all-RAW workflow in post-production.

Join Rich as he shares some tips on how to develop and finesse the RAW files using Adobe After Effects. He will show you techniques such as adjusting the scale of the files before using Bezier handles for creative looking movement. Related Episodes: Part 1 Time-Lapse: RAW Workflow: Ep 125 DSLR | Video Skills with Rich Harrington: Adorama Photography TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCuHGT...

Time-lapse Gear: DSLR | Video Skills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ke-3...

Time-Lapse: Organizing: DSLR | Video Skills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtSwu...

Time-Lapse: Developing: DSLR | Video Skills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVPpFw...

DSLR tutorial: Beneficial features of the Canon 6D

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Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/course-tutorials.... In this tutorial, Rich Harrington and Robbie Carman discuss the benefits of the Canon 6D, including affordability, enhanced low-light shooting, and built-in wifi and GPS capabilities.

This specific tutorial is from the DSLR Video Tips series presented by lynda.com authors Rich Harrington and Robbie Carman. The complete DSLR Video Tips course is presented as a weekly lynda.com series and covers the most common questions videographers encounter when shooting and editing with DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) cameras, from choosing a frame size and frame rate to understanding moiré.

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My Photoshop World Schedule

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Wednesday

  • 1:00 pm—6:00 pm | Show Floor & Drobo Booth

Thursday

  • 10:45 am—11:45 am | PHOTOSHOP 101 | General Photoshop
  • 12:00 pm—1:00 pm | USING DIGITAL PUBLISHING TO DISTRIBUTE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY & EXTEND YOUR BRAND
  • 1:30 pm—5:00 pm | Show Floor & Drobo Booth

Friday

  • 9:30 am—10:30 am | COLOR CORRECTING VIDEO FOOTAGE
  • 11:00 am—12:00 pm | EDITING VIDEO IN PHOTOSHOP
  • 12:00 pm—1:00 pm | Show Floor & Drobo Booth


Adobe Unveils the Next Generation Video Tools and Offers 40% Off for a Limited Time

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While visiting the National Association of Broadcasters Conference in Vegas, Adobe had a huge booth.  At it, they showed the next generation of their video products (such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and SpeedGrade).  While they didn't promise a release date, the likelihood was definitely stated as "soon." which should mean major updates to all their tools can't be far behind.
If you want to see a detailed overview of Adobe Premiere Pro — check out my class on Lynda.
Adobe offered a special deal that is only good for a few days.  Save 40% off a year of Creative Cloud (which drops it to $29 a month). This offer can be used by anyone (even if you don't own a qualifying upgrade product).  I strongly suspect this will be the best deal offered this year.
Remember, a few key facts about Creative Cloud.

  • You get every Adobe Creative software tool.  Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Prelude, SpeedGrade, Encore, Story and more.
  • You get tools like Digital Publishing Studio, Acrobat, and Muse for creating apps, PDFs, and websites.
  • You always have the latest version installed on your drive.  These do not run in the cloud, the apps are local just like before.
  • You get  20GB of Cloud storage and other cloud benefits that keep rolling out.
  • You get a professional Behance account to build portfolios and search for jobs.
  • You get updates sooner with no need to wait.


So if you're sitting on the fence, consider the offer.  It expires April 19.

Time-Lapse & RAW Workflow: DSLR | Video Skills

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Adorama Photography TV Presents DSLR | Video Skills with Rich Harrington. Join Rich in the first episode of this three-part series about creating a professional time-lapse video using an all-RAW workflow. In this episode, Rich shares some clips from his trip to Panama and explains how he overcame the obstacles of shooting a time-lapse in a crowd of tourists. Then, watch as he begins the post-production workflow by processing the images in Adobe Camera RAW.

Related Episodes:

Time-lapse Gear: DSLR | Video Skills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ke-3...

Time-Lapse: Organizing: DSLR | Video Skills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtSwu...

Time-Lapse: Developing: DSLR | Video Skills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVPpFw...

Check Out My Detailed Adobe Premiere Pro Technology Preview Class

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Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tut.... Find out how to paste select attributes from one clip to another using the Paste Attributes dialog in Premiere Pro.

Here's the full length course (with more to come after the app is released).

Premiere Pro Technology Preview
http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/Premiere-Pro-Technology-Preview/126763-2.html?utm_campaign=SxF5DCi6zaI&utm_medium=viral&utm_source=youtube

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